Hello Everyone, I have been off the list for several months (formerly janmim@aol.com also), since the collapse of my whole Christopher Clark>Penelope & Joseph Anthony>Sarah Anthony & Thomas Cooper>Mary Polly Cooper & John Waller>Mary Polly Waller & Crispen Robertson Shelton (married. 1807) line, since discovery of info (bible type record) that John and Polly Cooper's daughter Polly was b. in 1800. I still have a John Waller though, just not placed (and not the son of Geo & Anne Winston Carr -- another collapsed line). The Shelton boys pretty nearly always married first cousins, etc. but a marriage to a 7 year-old was a bit much even for them. Since I devoted a subtantial amount of time to these folks especially the Coopers, the grief process has been slow <vbg>, but my daughter has given me a new and entirely different challenge in the area. My 19 year old daughter has actually asked me via a non-collect PHONE CALL (not email or IM), to find out the history of the Victorian 1880s she she is living in, which is privately owned, but situated pretty much smack dab in the middle of the Univeristy of Virginia campus (closer than her dorm last year). Her initial interest was that it might be haunted (ie, find out who was murdered or died of heartbreak there) -- due to a series of events in September dealing with in retrospect she agrees a combination of 9 girls setting their computers up by themselves, with the help of one who was doing their DSL line installations (ie, computers turning selves off, gibberish on H&P printers, which I told her how to correct)....AND, some unexplained missing or displaced items -- attributable to back-to-school celebratory events I believe. Anyway...She still wants to know the history of the house. My suggestion that SHE make a visit to the local library and courthouse has fallen on deaf ears....she has suggested that all of my skills at genealogy research make me much more qualified (picture me rolling my eyes). I have never quite done anything like this. I will probably go down there the weekend after next. Are there any books on grand Victorian houses of Charlottesville? On haunted houses? Does the library have City Directories from the late 1800s. I tried to search at the website, but came up empty. Since I can only do this on Saturday, a courthouse is not an option. And yes, I have told her to ask her landlord what he/she knows, but she thinks it is a realty company. Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter