This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanford, Cauley, Meacham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pAC.2ACI/340.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the input Wanda. I have checked several New salem resources, including the publication New Salem Vital Records to 1849. There is no mention of her in the records there. The problem with Sarah Bond Cauley is that the dates for her in all the family genealogy, which is vast by the way, has given her the birth and death dates of her husband's other wife. The local archivists are having trouble helping me. They believe that she is only mother to one of the ten children, while Rebecca Grandy Sanford is mother to the rest, contarary to what the family genealogies say. In the end we will prevail, but for now we just have to find a modicum of proof that she actually was born in New Salem and that she did indeed die in Lawrence, St. Lawrence New York. I am currently checking cemetery sites for the St. Lawrence County area. I planned to go to New salem, but have not done that yet. Thank you for the advice, I appreciate your thoughtfulness. Robert Hutton [email protected]