Hi All Tri-County guests. Now I have heard it all. I am not going to name names, but I have just received notice that one of "ours" is having a birthday and to celebrate she is taking the day off from work and reading cemeteries. For her present, her husband is helping her. She is truly our kind of person. I am here with frozen fingers because I turned the heat off a few days ago in the heat wave and opened a window in the greenhouse that is very hard to close. So, I am not closing it, and not turning the heat back on and it is freezing here. We had a light frost. Yesterday I went to Steele in Elmira and copied the 1830 census for Chemung Township. With that and the histories on my site and the cemetery listings on my site I have made some real progress in reconstructing Baldwin-Chemung area for that time and have narrowed down my search for Amanda from Connecticut to a small number of families. The Brooks line is a likely one. So I just need to identify the girls in the appropriate age category of those families from Connecticut and maybe in the process find the right one and give Amanda her right surname. This community focussed method is one some of you might consider who are not familiar with it. In that time people usually married close to home, so knowing the neighborhood is the best way to find your person. With that approach in my Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy project I have been able to make many connections that have eluded other researchers. Down the road is the first place to look. I also met Long time site guest, Norma Jenkins, at the library. It is always nice to have a face to go with the names and personalities we have know for so long. Joyce M. Tice (with stiff fingers) <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>