[RICHARD]

Its like Hugh said I'm on two other boards. But this one is the most relaxed to post about things I want to have you add too, I'm on Richard Frajolas Board of Philatelics were you must know what your aloud to post about only Philatelic and postal history. We have an  ongoing U.S. census board to keep track of all the covers we purchase. The members are the best experts alive. They write all the certificates for our covers and stamps and have been collecting for as long as they have been alive 70 80 years some of there  other members own the auction houses like Siegal of New York. I've been on there for about 17 years now. I have learned a lot about almost everything, But not everything. I enjoy the chase of maybe its rare and who was that person in the letter, What ship the letter traveled on, or stagecoach or Pony Express, Rates  and so on. I like to  research it all. The Club has always been there for me and my three children. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Happy Collecting.

[Janet MacD]

Its like Hugh said I'm on two other boards. But this one is the most relaxed to post about things I want to have you add too, I'm on Richard Frajolas Board of Philatelics were you must know what your aloud to post about only Philatelic and postal history. We have an  ongoing U.S. census board to keep track of all the covers we purchase. The members are the best experts alive. They write all the certificates for our covers and stamps and have been collecting for as long as they have been alive 70 80 years some of there  other members own the auction houses like Siegal of New York. I've been on there for about 17 years now. I have learned a lot about almost everything, But not everything. I enjoy the chase of maybe its rare and who was that person in the letter, What ship the letter traveled on, or stagecoach or Pony Express, Rates  and so on. I like to  research it all. The Club has always been there for me and my three children. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Happy Collecting.

Welcome, Richard! Could you tell us a bit about some of your favorite resources for researching US covers?

[RICHARD]

Its like Hugh said I'm on two other boards. But this one is the most relaxed to post about things I want to have you add too, I'm on Richard Frajolas Board of Philatelics were you must know what your aloud to post about only Philatelic and postal history. We have an  ongoing U.S. census board to keep track of all the covers we purchase. The members are the best experts alive. They write all the certificates for our covers and stamps and have been collecting for as long as they have been alive 70 80 years some of there  other members own the auction houses like Siegal of New York. I've been on there for about 17 years now. I have learned a lot about almost everything, But not everything. I enjoy the chase of maybe its rare and who was that person in the letter, What ship the letter traveled on, or stagecoach or Pony Express, Rates  and so on. I like to  research it all. The Club has always been there for me and my three children. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Happy Collecting.

Welcome, Richard! Could you tell us a bit about some of your favorite resources for researching US covers?

I've been on Richard Frajola Board of Philatelic for as long as I've been collecting. And using TheSweedishtiger.com for identifying U.S. stamps, I contact cities and towns the Historical society and the mayor some times, for more information about people  when I'm researching  there covers, I all so use the Smithsonian institute. They have micro film on U.S. town records for every town city through time. Every purchase ever made and so on passengers lists on boats times leaving or arrival times were all recorded at some point. I also contact the museums and donate letters or get more information from them. Note there is no charge for this. I use Th APS library for plating charts. pay a small fee for it. Look at the  Revenue things I've posted to read about the research on one document in Thereasa New York. I contacted the Mayor there Historical Society and a living relative of the person I was researching. I sent Her and the Mayor one of the documents. I love the research. No charge. Note I was sold the Revenue Documents at a Kingston Stamp Club meeting years ago. I forgot I Use Siegal Auctions power search plus it ties me to PSE SMQ search as well.