All, I'm looking for general leads as well as for some nice person like Pennie who could do some newspaper lookups for me. For my M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts, I am researching the life & work of a woman named Jessie Haven McNicol (ca. 1869-1945). She was originally from Sherbrooke, then moved to the US around 1901, when she was in her late twenties. She designed & published greeting cards in Boston from about 1907-1945, building a business that was worth over $100,000 US dollars when she died. She apparently never married or had children. Her will of 1936 mentions 2 brothers, John (deceased at that time; his widow was Laura Lillian McNicol of Lethbridge, Alberta) and George L. McNicol of Vancouver (still living at that time, but deceased by the time the will was probated in 1945). The will also mentions a cousin, Dorothy Winn Drury of Iberville, Province of Quebec, and a niece, Margaret Constance McNicol, daughter of brother George of Vancouver. By 1945 this niece Margaret had moved to Boston and married a man named George M. Brown. At Jessie's death in 1945 (age 76), her body was sent from Boston to Elmwood Cemetery in Sherbrooke, where she was buried in the family plot with her mother and father. I'd like to locate any living members of the McNicol family who might have information about Jessie McNicol and her business and artistic activities. Any leads at all would be appreciated--but, IN PARTICULAR, is there anyone who has access to local or regional papers from December, 1945? Jessie died on December 9 of that year, and a few days later she was interred at the cemetery in Sherbrooke. I'm hoping that obituaries would have been published locally that would give fuller details than the Boston papers did--especially clues to her early life, artistic training, etc. If anyone can help with this, I can swap lookups in the National Archives down here in Washington DC. Many thanks, Anne O'Donnell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com