At 06:39 PM 9/3/1999 -0400, The Carpenters wrote: >Sorry, cousins. It's all my fault. The dust seemed to be starting to >settle, so I thought I would ask a simple question about an important >physical characteristic that might help me find old John 1797 VT >Carpenter's parents, hoping that I might help lighten things up with a bit >of humor. I got mostly "yes!" answers to my query about big bushy >eyebrows. Rest assured that there were also small, thin, no-eyebrow >CARPENTERs with lovely little noses. No, it's NOT your fault. We all need to get "thicker" skins :) You could have talked about the weather and it would have happened anyway... I personally liked the eyebrow thing and so did many others. Keep up the posting! Chuck Please visit my web site "Chuck's Wood-Knots" at: http://www.evcom.net/~chuck2/index.html Carpenter Genealogy at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6712/index.html