Hello Nancy, CONGRATULATIONS!!! I know you had to work very hard to accomplish this endeavor. If you send a letter or e-mail to the WCCOGS they will read it at the ceremony. They will mail your certificate & pin to you. I received my FFWC Certificate last year. MANY BLESSINGS!! Jacque Martindale FFWC #199 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At 07:06 PM 5/11/01 -0700, Nancy Petersen wrote: >Hi folks, > Hooray! I just received notice that my application for >First Families of Wood County has been approved. >I'll notify my relatives, so they will know that my gg-grandfather >JOHN ELDER, b. 1805 PA, >and my g-grandfather JOSIAH ELDER, b. 1848, >Wood County, were certified as in Wood County before 1850. > >Now I still need to know how John ELDER got there, and >where his father JOSEPH ELDER was born. The >documents I worked on for Wood County should help >with the Pennsylvania search, too. > >Thanks again everyone who helped me here! > > I'm sorry I cannot attend the dinner meeting on >May 22 at the Bowling Green Country Club. >-- >Nancy Elder Petersen, Retired School Librarian >14514 NE 52nd Circle >Vancouver, WA 98682 >Phone: 360-882-1039 >http://www.teleport.com/~nancyp/elder.htm > > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > >