Hi Lists, I apologize if you are getting this post more than once as I am on several lists. I just returned this past Friday from a week in PA and NJ. In addition to visiting my parents in NJ, I spent several days researching in Reading and Norristown. I broke through one brick wall at the Berks County Genealogical Society when I researched in the Hunsberger Book. I found the ancestors of my gggrandfather, JESSE FRANKLIN HUNSBERGER and discovered that they were German speaking Swiss Mennonites who originally came here to flee religious persecution. I was amazed to find myself, my siblings and cousins galore in the book. I plan to buy this book at some point. If you are researching Hunsberger, or any of the variant spellings, you and they are most likely in this book. It's a good source to research to fill in your family trees. The BCGS in Reading has this book as well as the Montgomery County Historical Society in Norristown. The above breakthrough led me to find the location of the grave of my ggggrandfather, John Hunsberger, two of his siblings, and his parents. We got photos of the grave sites and cemetery, which is behind the Mennonite church in Franconia, Pa, also rubbings of the tombstones, one of which is in German. I also got a copy of the will of my gggggggrandfather at the Montg. County Courthouse. Copies there cost $1.00 a page. I found Jesse Hunsberger's date of licensing with the Evangelical Association in the minutes of the same. We explored the Reading City Directories and found early addresses for many ancestors. Also found baptism and confirmation dates for others in church records. Upon leaving the Reading Library, I learned they have most of the censuses there on microfilm. Will have to do that next time. We did the Reading courthouse and got a few estate papers. I am still at a dead end on MARY ETTA ROTHENBERGER, THOMAS HOLT, CHRISTIAN BARTH, and LEAH HITTLE (Jesse Hunsberger's wife). Thank you to everyone for your help and suggestions. I will be busy for some time entering all the new data into my family tree. If you go to Reading, be very careful of the parking meters. The meter readers are vultures! I missed getting more money in by 15 minutes while researching at the library and got an $8.00 parking ticket (in the pouring down rain!) We used the parking garage across from the courthouse, which isn't cheap, but saves worrying about the meters. In Norristown, there is a parking garage directly under the courthouse and elevators take you directly into the building. Again, there are security checks. They will confiscate pocketknives and nail files, to name a just a few items. Judy in upstate NY ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.