I do appreciate that sharing -- whether people admit it or not, I think we've all experienced something close. <grin> Right now I'm being forced in to finding my paternal grandmother's side of the family, and they are as difficult as she was in being seen <smiling> Thanks for the telling, Kay McGee looking for a Rockybottom Smith (SC or GA before 1800) ~~~~ Genealogy: http://home.earthlink.net/~kmcgee03/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cousins Link to Photo Album: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cousins/photolinks-alt.html At 10:22 PM 03/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Since I was a child, I knew that my ancestors speak to and through me. It is >not mystical or magical, it is simply a part of being, period. I can almost ><snip> >Just wanted to share that. > >Bonnie <snip>