My experience was pre-internet. However, it proves that good things will happen if you are diligent and contact others. One day (after researching for about seven years) I was contacted by a woman who was not of my surname. She said she had heard I was researching the CADDELL family. I informed her that I was. She said she had a Caddell family bible that was her great grandmothers. She agreed to send it to me to make copies of the genealogy section enclosed in the bible. I received it and was completely astounded. I was the family bible of my gr gr grandfather, Andrew Jackson Caddell that died as a prisoner of war in the civil war. Her gr grandmother was the youngest child of Andrew and was born in the cane fields along the Ouachita River, AR while the family was in hiding when the "yankees" came through burning homes and crops. He gr grandmother and descendants had not had any contact with the rest of Andrew's descendants for nearly 100 years. The bible had births, marriages and deaths of all Andrew and his wife Mary's (Burchfield) children and Mary's mother. That "find" eventually opened up my entire genealogy back to the early 1800s in SC with further research back to NC. My part of the family came from NC to SC to AL to AR to TX. Others went from NC directly to the Whitley County, KY area. Bill Caddell Granbury, TX USA