Hi All, Genes or Spooky, maybe a bit of both. My stumbling block was my John SMITH, I had not thought of Palatine with his name. But in 1870 here in Australia he named his house "Rahina". After John SMITH died, my grandfather, his son, then bought the name plate to Melbourne and put it on a house he built. I spent some time trying to find what the significance of Rahina was, then found a little village in Ireland called Rahina, and then the mother of John SMITH was Rebecca CORNEILLE and it all fell into place after that. I had no idea why I thought the house plate and the name Rahina was important to me. But it pointed me in the right direction. Genes or a push from the Ancestors!! Who knows, but these things always make me feel like I belong to this family who spread over a great area of the planet!! Cheers Jacqui Cunningham, Central Victoria, Australia. http://www.oldnewscopy.com "It's Old News!"