If I can ever help you out getting copies of the wills on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, I would gladly do it. Before asking, check the Catalog to see what microfilm it is on. I do things like that for other people all the time through a group I belong to, RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, http://www.raogk.org ). I live 20 minutes from the Library. Vicki --- On Sat, 5/8/10, Stephen Wood <stephe.w300@gmail.com> wrote: From: Stephen Wood <stephe.w300@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [VANNORMAN] Ana VanArnam married to Cornelius Russell To: vannorman@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 6:42 AM Hi Arlene!      Remember that list of NY wills I posted back in the summer of 2009 (after which you obtained Peter's will)?  I believe number 33 on my list is this will. Tompkins County:  Vannorman, William   Ithaca   1827/32     I plan to obtain more of these wills soon, but this one isn't on my "wish" list as someone has already transcribed it (however poor the writing must have been). The current indexes for the U.S. wills are at the following website: www.sampubco.com/wills/index.htm [still a work in progress....] Stephen On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Arlene Reeves <arkretired@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Hi > > Where would the will be? > > > Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 08:25:42 -0400 > > From: stephe.w300@gmail.com > > To: vannorman@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [VANNORMAN] Ana VanArnam married to Cornelius Russell > > >  > Hi! > > > > My two cents worth... > > > > I had speculated earlier that I wondered if it could actually read > > Maria on the original, if the writing was really poor, but I can also > easily > > see how Anna could be made from Auria - again with poor writing. I guess > > we'll have to purchase a copy of the will eventually to see what the > > original looks like....... > > > > The only drawback with it being the name Anna is that there is already > > a sister Hannah, and "back in the day", those two names could be > > interchangeable, and both weren't often used in the same family. [Not a > rule > > etched in stone, however.....] > > > > Stephen > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message