Thanks for your response. My interest in the Burdicks is as Burns descendants. I have a photograph taken c. 1902 of the centennial of the Burns family in America and I just bet there are Burdicks in the picture since David Burns (born circa 1770) and his brother Jonathan (born 1773) were alive until the mid 1800s. I thought it would be interesting to Burdicks...especially the decendants of Thomas and David's daughter, whose first name is unknown..that she was a Burns. We are tentatively planning a bicentennial of the Burns family in America for the year 2000... but since I have to do all that work, it is very tentative