Hi Jackie, Loved your story! Diane in St. Helena CANAPA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > CANAPA-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 31 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Strange things happen at the Genea [RAECAMPBEL@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from CANAPA-D, send a message to > > CANAPA-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Strange things happen at the Genealogy Library > Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:01:25 EDT > From: RAECAMPBEL@aol.com > To: CANAPA-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello Everyone! > > This story is a little long but it's genealogy related. Please feel free to > delete it if you want! : ) > > I just had the strangest thing happen and I had to share my experience. Let > me start by saying I'm taking a genealogy class. At last weeks class the > instructor was telling us that Hank Jones would soon be a guest speaker at > the Society. He has written several books and has become know as the > "Psychic Genealogist". She told of some of things that had happened to her > and others. Stories similar to those documented by Hank Jones. > > Now begins the music to the theme to The Twilight Zone... > > All week long I have been putting off my research. Finally I get myself into > the Library the last day of the week they were open (you know how that goes, > something always happens and you don't get there). I was the only > researcher. The nice volunteer lady was very helpful, answered my questions > and went back to her own research. > > About an hour later a nice couple come in, get settled and start working. We > pass each back and forth and chat a bit as we work. About 15 minutes go by > and for some reason the man, the volunteer and I are all in the same isle. > He is asking for information on the "BALE" surname. > > At this point I'm thinking "How weird" last month I was in here looking for > BALE's for someone else! So I turned to the nice man and told him I'd just > been researching BALES a few weeks ago and would be glad to help him find > what I had looked up. Quickly I pulled out cemetery books, births, deaths > and marriages and showed him what I had found the month before. > > As we looked through the books the man made copies and we chatted about the > BALE family as they are quite prominent in the Napa Valley. I was telling > him that there was a great RootsWeb Mailing List called NORCAL-L. I asked > if he knew about it? He said he was on the NORCAL-L list. I replied really > because I'm on it too! He said he signed his name KERGAN in Tuscon. I said > I signed my name Jackie in Napa, CA. At this point I'm thinking here is > someone all the way from Tuscon, AZ in Napa, CA researching a surname I'd > just researched a few weeks ago and were on the same mailing list! This is > really weird! > > Meanwhile the nice volunteer lady found the pioneer/family files on the BALES > for the nice man. By this time I have truly enjoyed visiting with the man > and his very nice wife and I am preparing, regretfully to leave. My daughter > needs to be picked up from preschool so I'm gathering my things to leave as > the volunteer lady brings out the BALE file. > > Here I am, needing to leave and I can't! I have to see what's in this BALE > pioneeer/family file. As the man looks through the contents of the envelope, > he comes across a full page newspaper sheet which is very yellowed with age. > It has an article about the Grist Mill the BALE family built and ran in the > 1800's. I'm thinking it's really old and yellowed. I wonder what the date > is? So I take a look and it's dated March 10, 1963. That is the date of my > birth! > > Now if you haven't heard the Twilight Zone Music yet I can't explain it to > you! And talk about psychic genealogy! I must have been called there that > day, why I'm not sure... > > Now I know I'm getting really old and yellowed! And I'm glad I got to meet > KERGAN in Tuscon and his lovely wife! But I'm not quite so sure about the > psychic experience... > > Jackie McKey Campbell > In Napa, CA