For Lois and others...yes, I did attend Linda Woodward Geiger was the speaker for this class. She is a well-known researcher and national lecturer as well as a Webmaster for several sites. She now lives in Georgia but used to live in New England. Linda basically told us where to find vital, probate and deeds records for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. For example, all vital records are kept at the town level but probate may be kept at the town, county or even district level. Deeds are kept at the town and county levels. So, it is vital to know where to look to make your search easier. Additional records at the town level are such things as adoptions, bounday and border disputes, cemetery records, church records, inquests, manumissions, poor records, and regisitration of dogs among many others. She also encouraged us to recognize town officers such as searchers and sealers of leather, clerks of the market, surveyors of flax seed...in other words, your ancestor may be found in many, many ways. Henny Evans