My Pierces, although of upstate parentage , don't mix with yours but my Brother-in-law has Pierce relatives in the Jefferson county region so I am making a copy which I will send to him. He doesn't have a computer but he does go to the Mormons for information. He also went to Watertown to do research when he was visiting us. We used to live in Forestport so I appreciated your line about betng snowed in. Briggs Ackert, to whom I am going to send your letter, lives in Tucson now.