Dear Betsy and other "kissing Cousins": It's always amazing when I get information and I am deligently plugging away into my computer and all of a sudden the program asks me....."is this person the same as this person?" and VIOLA! Another "Kissing Cousin" is born! So far, mine have been in NC, MS, and LA. In NC: Hinton, Hardy and Alston's seem to have been "around" each other quite a lot. In Ms: Guice, Kinnison, McLaurin, Gilbert, Beck, Shaw and a few others. In La: Hinton, Frith, Cotten With all the people in the world today and the computers making it easier to find new "cousins", it's amazing when you think that only 100 years ago (if not less) the world was really a lot smaller place...people didn't have the ability or the funds to move around alot and lose contact as we do now. People in the same community married the people in the same community....brothers of one family marrying sisters of another family happened alot. Hey, I even have one that married and when her husband died, she married her husband's Uncle! Looking forward to the discussions on this site! Lisa Cotten Metairie, LA