This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3RB.2ACE/339.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: *chuckle* As it happens I just may get to Owego in April or May - it's not greatly more than some 2000ish miles away. What's amusing is that I live so far out in the wilds of Texas that the nearest library is one we just opened last October, this hamlet never had one before. A close cousin who found me online back when I first made Dumb Posts, who lives in MI, and I will meet there and take off for NY together! There is a little library the next county over, though, that has a surprisingly smart collection; they may just have it for me to read. I had asked her, since only one sibling of 5 left NY after the civil war, and the one who died left a wife and children in NY, well that meant that 80% of "us" were still in NY. She didn't know anyone, but made a couple of smart choice phone calls and whoa, do we have relatives! 400% more cousins to meet!