Recently I asked my grandmother (Dolores Mead Wife of Dee Alan Mead) if she had any information on our family. She loaned me a book written by a Douglas A Mead. I have found this book very informative. If anyone would like to see some of the book I am going to eventually scan it and save it to a disk. just email me and I can email you a copy. it is a total of 60 pages. It starts in 1066 in England where my mead family is found to have come from. William Mead and his three brothers boarded the ship Elizabeth in port lydd, kent in April 1665. William Mead Starts the 1st generation of the mead family in America, which later made there way to Michigan, thus getting the "Michigan Meads". You would not belive how much this book has helped me. There is also other books that Douglas got his information from, listed in the back of this book. One was written bya Spencer P Mead. Just thought I would let everyone know of this book. If you think it may be of help to you, just let me know and I can email it as soon as I get it scanned onto a disk.