Hi I have been following the 'spooky or what' items with interest as - and I think most readers will agree with me - when you decide to take up family research, soemthings happen that do have no logical explanation. I ask patience with the list on this one as it is not strictly list material but something I would like to share. Have not we all 'known' in which direction to go, quite often, in search of ancestors, without having much to go on apart from a few myths and legends from previous family members? Tales of what Gran or Grandad did, or where they lived quite often turn out to be several generations away from reality, or totally fabrication. We are truly blessed with the factual information we have on our Palatines, mainly because of documentation and the good people who provide it for us, but in other areas we have very little to start with but we seem to end up in the right place to find our families. How can this always be explained by logic? I'm not trying to put a spooky angle on this, quite the reverse, is it our genes? I know that I have stood atop a mountain in North Yorkshire with no idea what I am doing there apart from a feeling of being totally at home, and looking down on the little villages and being pulled there with no paperwork to say I'm correct, yet finding generations of my ancestors having lived there and buried in the churchyards. My Mother never knew anything of her Palatine background so I had nothing to start me off, yet a small article in a family history magazine struck a chord and away I went, right back to my 6 x Gt Granfather Adam Cornelius. And all proven! I would love to hear of how other listers came to know of their ancestory Hazel