For anyone interested, I have recently been lost and almost helpless because of some wierd problem with my computer which prevented me from getting my e-mail regularly. When I came back from a 9 day vacation and found it working again, I also found 125 e-mail messages from PIATT-L in addition to my other personal correspondence. Though I have found very little of it that I can definitely connect to my line, I have enjoyed it all and find it very interesting. For example, the coincidences; Sandy, who is using her sister Carol's e-mail address -- I have a sister-in-law Carol Bray PIATT who also has a sister named Sandy; and David C. PIATT, who agrees that we are "all good people" -- I, too, share his sentiment and have a son named David Charles PIATT. Now for Laverne, After reading over those 125 messages, in chronilogical but not all in consecutive order, I am very impressed with Laverne's method of defining who a specific message is intended "for". And I want to personally thank her and Richard O. PIATT for their constant time and efforts toward tying all the PIATT lines together. For Christine, As you had the provable part of my line on the chart you brought to the 2000 Conference, I assume that I sent it to you. However, I'm so convinced of one more generation that I'm willing to include it in my lineage. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to prove it and, as a result, cannot trace back to Rene. The extra generation is: ..Elijah PIATT ca 1760 m. Rebecca MANNING (?) 1768-1849 .....Charles PIATT 1795-ca 1879 m 1813 Elizabeth ROSE 1797- ? ........Elijah C. PIATT 1827-1883 m 1851 Elizabeth E. RUTHERFORD 1833-1917 ...........Fred R. PIATT 1861-1939 m 1886 Lizzie CLOSSER 1864-1952 ..............Donovan E. PIATT 1893-1975 m 1916 Leah M JAMES 1893-1958 .................James D. PIATT (me) 1929- m 1950 Edith C. ROSS We have 7 children and 13 grandchildren (no Gr. grandch. yet) For Barbara Angelo, Several years ago, while doing some research in Tioga and Chemung Counties, NY, for a deed belonging to Jo Piatt LAUER, I found several PIATT names in that area. You may already have everything I have but I will try to get those names and their connections together so I can bring them to you at the Conference. Jim Piatt