Hi Michelle, Since Gary's message was forwarded to the list by Cyndi, that means that he is not subscribed to this list and won't hear of your concern unless you also addressed your message to his personal email. I was a student of Arthur Fiske's several years ago, so perhaps I can clarify a bit, and you can try Gary personally. The Fiske center is a private genealogical library, incorporated as a foundation. Arthur Fiske was the founder, leader, collector, and the only organizational structure for many years. He was the one doing the Fisk-Fiske family research. He taught genealogical beginning classes and seminars thru the Fiske Foundation, but I am unaware of any other Fiske researchers. Since his death, the volunteers of the Fiske Foundation have been very successful in carrying on his work. Arthur kept everything on 3x5 file cards, which are still in the library. I don't know what their policy is on look-ups from written requests. I do know that they have memberships and charge non-members a fee to use the library. If they do free look-ups, it would be other volunteer committees. Gary is serving a term as president of the foundation, which is an administrative post. Certainly he should be able to pass your question about your unanswered request on to the appropriate committee, so I encourage you to contact him via his email address. Are you aware that there is a Fiske mailing list and a rather large GenForum site for Fiske? Naturally I always notice the name, because of Arthur. I do know that all of Arthur's ancestry was in New England. Diane Hettrick Shoreline, state of washington dhettrick@earthlink.net Michelle A. Day wrote: > > Hey Gary, > > I sent a letter to your library September 12, 1998 inquiring about some > Fisks of mine and never received a response. How long will it before I > hear something? Pretty interesting that someone recommended to me your > library and I failed to even get a reponse that you can't even help me. > > Michelle A. Day > michelleann@ameritech.net