I want to thank all the wonderful people who gave me suggestions for my recent trip from Chicagoland to PA. I followed your suggestions and it made my trip so much easier. I had a great time. Everyone in all the places I visited were so helpful and kind. Since I was looking mainly for people before 1850 I had a hard task at hand. I loved the different societies which had taken obits and any kind of article about various names and put them together in folders by surname. What a help that was and what a great idea. It saved me hours or work. I didn't visit any court houses while there as had a man help me a few years ago and wasn't sure this trip exactly what he might have missed. Anyway it was a great trip, loved the people and I will be back. Am sorry that I didn't make it to Brookville, but did go to Westmoreland Historical Society, Indiana Co Genealogy and Historical Society and Punxsutawney Society. I found a lot of leads and was able to bring some of my old families a little closer to the 1900s and perhaps a lead or two on someone to work with. The names I was working on were STATES, BREWER, HENDRICKS, CLAWSON, BRADY and several sidelines of the above names. They were among the first in the counties, but not much left in records, but just to go to where they settled was a treat in itself. Anyway, I want to double thank all of you who gave me guidance and those who helped me at the different societies. I would recommend a trip to this area to anyone. Jerilyn