Karen Yes, there is someone else researching the people you believe to be your Cranes of Vermont. Not me. The person is Nancy in Missouri. You can tell us apart because I live in California. Supposing that your Ezekiel really was a son of Abel Crane, born 1771 probably at Brookfield, Massachusetts, then Abel was a son of Benjamin Crane of Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, and he (Abel) was a brother of Amos, who is Nancy's ancestor. Although you are looking in the wrong town in the wrong county, we did learn earlier from Harriet Chase of this list that the line between Bethel and Randolph was porous, and so I guess we can think of such citizens as having dual passports. Thus, there needn't necessarily be much difference between Bethel and Randolph, I suppose. Such seems to be the gossip anyway. It appears that Abel had a brother John Crane who may have sneaked into Randolph from Bethel. If so, perhaps Abel followed him there. Of course, at the time, neither Nancy nor myself would have been paying any attention at all to any Cranes of Randolph or other Orange County towns. The family is written up in the book "Genealogy of the Crane Family: Descendants of Benjamin Crane, of Weathersfield, Conn......", by Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1900, vol. 2, page 65 (a blurb about this was sent to me by Nancy; I don't actually have it). Abel Crane is listed in Benjamin Crane's probate records, of Bethel, Windsor Co., VT, available from Nancy (I sent her a photocopy) or from the LDS microfilm for Windsor County, VT probate, Hartford District, vol. 3, beginning on page 183 and meandering on from there. The heirs, including Abel, are listed beginning on vol. 3, page 472. (Somehow, I still have my notes, though this family is in no way related to me, except perhaps by proximity of real estate -- and, by the way, my scribble notes are subject to the possibility of errors in things like page numbers, dates, 'n' stuff.) I also sent Nancy, some time ago, a pile of vital records from Bethel for the Cranes, as I recall. I have no notes from those. I had also earlier ordered the LDS film containing the Vermont statewide vital records index for Crane / Crain, but I don't know if I made that a permanent loan or not. I did renew the thing at least once. It would still be here if I had renewed it twice. I'll try to remember to check tomorrow. Anyway, I shall drop Nancy an E line with your name and E address. Meanwhile, you can probably find her queries on the archives of the VTWINDSO-L Rootsweb list, probably year 2001 or so. If her E mail address has expired, I have her snailmail address here. Lester Powers ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!