I am Carolyn Whitney Cook and I have been doing family genealogy for about two years now. It all started when I received my great great grandmothers bible. Her name was Sarah E. Whitney and she had presented the bible to her "brother and sister Mr. and Mrs. Joel Brownson". I wanted to know more about Sarah and so the search began. The bible included very little information about her or her husband William Whitney. From obituaries that I have read I am working to substantiate that Sarah was born in Conneticut the daughter of John and Lucy Polley. Sarah was born November 14, 1821 and died February 2, 1880. She married William Whitney in New York and they had two sons Frederick Eaton born in (Higley, Cedar County, New York as noted in his obituary printed in the Clinton Herald, Clinton, Iowa, March 17, 1924; or Hectley, Oneida County, New York as printed in the Clinton Advertiser printed on the same date) on May 26, 1856 and Charles E. born April 23, 1861 in Shiwassee Michigan. I have found William, Sarah, and Frederick listed in the 1860 Michigan census. I need assistance in that I cannot find a Cedar County New York and/or Hectley in Oneida County. In order to possibly find out more about Sarah and William I was going to attempt to get Frederick's record of birth but can't decide quite how to go about accomplishing this. Anyone have any ideas? BTW - I certainly would be pleased to find I have a tie to the WRG. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/