I think the following is in keeping with the recent train of thought on this list. I came across the following on the Internet several years ago. A note at the bottom read, "I type this poem on the back of 3x5 index cards, along with my name and address, laminate the card and attach it to the stem of a silk flower or flag and leave at my ancestor's graves." This would be a good way to let other folks, who visit the same grave, know that you're out there, hunting too! Dear Ancestor Your tombstone stands among the rest; neglected and alone. The name and date are chiseled out on polished, marbled stone. It reaches out to all who care it is too late to mourn. You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born. Yet, each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone. Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own. Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so. I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew that someday I would find this spot and come and visit you. Lyn McIntosh-Sherwood Looking for JOHNSON/DEASE families in Barbour County, AL