Hi Judy, What a lovely story - thanks for sharing it with us! It also shows how different groups and people working together can help us find that extra bit of magic in our family history. For example, Lorraine Phelan is responsible for the research, collecting and production the book Geelong Swiss. The book was published by the Geelong Family History Group. Lorraine and heaps of other members of the GFHG are members of this list and regularly contribute both on and off the list. With our book indexing project, Lorraine and the GFHG had no hesitation in providing their indexes for our consolidated index. And so the world goes around!!!!! It's a nice feeling ....... I'm sure you'll have a lovely visit with your cousin in Geelong! Regards ....... Susie Zada ----- Original Message ----- From: "judythom" <judythom@optusnet.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: [GEELONG] Long lost cousin > Dear listers, > > I felt I had to share this with you, as it was through this list, and > connected web pages etc., that I have caught up with a cousin I haven't seen > for many years.