Adrienne: A couple of comments about your mother's research: First, while working on records for Newbury, I found that the borders of several communities, including Amesbury and Salisbury, shifted several times during the period under discussion. So, it is possible that families may appear to have moved when, in reality, it was the border that moved. (I was trying to trace the whereabouts of people who accused Elizabeth Morse and got so flummoxed that I gave up for a while. I would have needed money for many photocopies and a bunch of different colored markers to track the border changes and the locations of the people involved.) Second, my impression is that it's not really necessary to track specific interactions among the North Shore towns. I think it's justifiable to assume that everyone knew someone in any of these towns or (especially among the men) had business with people in any of the coast towns. Large families, too, meant extensive familial connections. It would be a massive undertaking, but I think it likely that we'd find a lot of family connections if we were able to document all the family connections among the accused and accusers, especially maternal aunts (those figures who are often the most difficult to find). Francine Nicholson _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx