In a message dated 10/3/2002 7:25:12 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > It seems the cousin mentions my gr > grandparents names. And how I asked did she come to know my gr > grandparents......well they were her grandparents. My story isn't quite that good, but it's still interesting . . . and it also shows how RootsWeb can bring people together. I'd touched base with someone on another list who was researching one of the families on my mom's side, and I'd shared with her how I was trying to find my grandfather Beatty's family and hadn't ever been able to get anywhere. She gave me the name "Diane Ward Sives" and an e-mail address to go with it. Once I'd actually touched base with Diane Sives, which took a while, she referred me to Pat (the Pat who's on this list) for Beatty info. At the same time I asked her about the "Ward" in her name, since my great-aunt Nellie was a Ward by marriage. It turned out that Aunt Nellie's husband was Diane's grandfather's brother! We'd both been around the Ward monument works in Hackettstown in our growing-up years, and I wonder how many times I might have seen her back then. I'm older than she is by five years, so I probably would have thought of her as a snot-nosed little kid. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr