Okay, my relatives were in Cambridge and Lowell mostly and most of them are still there. I noticed you have an aol address.....I use IM handle is matcrank1 if you want to chat. Lou "For those who have fought for it....Freedom has a taste the protected will never know" " Without the Brave there would be no land of the Free" A new Recruit asked an old Warrior, "What is War like?" The old timer replied, "A bunch of us went down to Gettysburg one day, a lot of people died. If you weren't there you wouldn't understand." -----Original Message----- From: BlueGoose6@aol.com [mailto:BlueGoose6@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:54 PM To: PRT-MADEIRA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PRT-MADEIRA] Surname: Pitta Mostly in New Bedford MA and I have lots of maternal cousins still in New Bedford. Also lots of paternal ones but they are from the Azorean side. My mother was from Madeira. My father's mother was from the Azores. Julie Gerren ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx