Dear Lorie, 15 Sep 1999

1 had a rather exciting birthday on my 83rd year of life. I received over a dozen well-wishing cards of unusual quality, some created on computers apparently. I now learn that a group of e-mail Dilley searchers around Teddy are working putting my other accounts of Dilleys on the Web site. I keep wondering if loose-leaf sets of my accounts would be easier to scan on the Internet? I always keep a loose leaf set of each Dilley clan which allows easy access for changes. I have not seen a scanner except in magazines, and I do not know how they work, but I assume much like an ordinary copier machine. I have kept copies of all my letters and genealogy records from the 1850s to the present. I bound up an earlier set of letters between Ruth Dilley and myself for the early years of Dilley research. You keep the extra 10 loose-leaf pages.

I miss the satisfaction of making visits to living sites for Dilley records In the 1980s I made several visits to Mercer Co. PA, Washington Co PA, Warren Co. IL, Rice Co. KS and Guernsey Co. OH to mention some sites. I visted NJ only once and I was not very successful. I had depended on Win O'Hara who lived there to collect the Dilley data. Then I got too old to do much traveling.

I am busy making a new index for my census records which will help searchers to find Dilleys throughout the states west of NJ to Iowa and Kansas. I had attempted to get all Dilley families in each state from census index lists. I have finished revising the index with names from A to L with over a thousand Dille>,s. This filled 16 pages of lists. I hope that my new index will help people use my census records. I have two bound books of census records which are over-lapping, so I don't quite know how to fix that situation. My intent is to produce another version with all Dilleys included from states east of the Mississippi River.

I hope you are making progress with the job of putting the New Jersey clan on the Internet' Many Thanks'

Sincerely yours,

Jay D. Andrews