Mark, Do you want to make a bet? :-D :-D Al At 10:20 AM 1/25/2007, you wrote: >Things seem to endure in/around Philadelphia, for better or >worse. I didn't grow up in the area, descending instead from people >who had begun moving south and west about the end of the French and >Indian War. (My last ancestor to actually live here died in >1918.) I grew up in Michigan, married an expatriate Philadelphian >and, together, we moved here 20 years ago. Mr. Haley had introduced >me to genealogy in the 70s, but I hadn't imagined how much >infrastructure would still exist. (In most of the country, what one >most often finds is a family name on a road sign or a home >site.) There's a 1700ish house up in Bucks County that I've known >about for several years but have never seen. My wife and daughters >are burned out from looking at ancestors' houses that "all look >alike." Perhaps they'd appreciate them more if the bulldozers were >more active. > >Mark