Dear Folks, This afternoon the phone rang, the woman introduced herself as Donna Allen who was calling from Tucson, AZ, she told me that our Village Historian had given her my number and I was all ears to listen to what she had in mind. She said she was researching her Youngstown family and wanted to know if there were any genealogists in the area who could help her. In answer to that I suggested that I may have already researched her family and when she told me that it was the family of John Turner, I replied, "Oh, you mean John and Agnes Turner?" Of course I knew the family and had researched it as thoroughly as I could from local records. When she realized that I really knew a lot about the family and started asking me a lot of questions, I interrupted her and asked if she had email. Yes she did. I gave her my email address and suggested she email me as to what was on her mind. And she did. I printed her message out, studied it carefully and then this evening I probably spent about two hours responding to it. I could tell that she wasn't a newbie to genealogy when she told me about some of her theories about the family. I felt that it was a challenge and at the same time her theories made me take a different slant on the family. While I was digging through my TURNER file of paper copies I came across an exchange of emails that I had with Beverley Lane from Illinois last August including a number of family group sheets she had mailed me on the same Turner family. Beverley and I haven't corresponded since. I didn't bother to tell Donna about Beverley in that I figured it could wait. So at 8:37 this evening I sent my reply to Donna. Well guess what? At 10:58 this evening out of a clear blue sky I received an email from Beverley Lane and all she said was to remind me of our correspondence of last year and asked me if I was still doing Niagara Co. genealogy research. I really couldn't believe the coincidence of two queries about the same family on the same day! Donna certainly didn't mention Beverley and Beverley certainly didn't mention Donna. But when I responded briefly to Beverley this evening I copied Donna and I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it was a coincidence or not. At any rate, it appears that the three of us need to get into a huddle on the TURNER/CAMPBELL family "mystery" around here! Genealogy is sooooo boring! vee

Vee, don't tell me that there isn't "Something out there" operating behind the scenes!!! This is an eerie story....Ghosty even :-) Jo in Michigan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vee L. Housman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 12:01 AM Subject: [FOLKS] An unusual genealogy incident > Dear Folks, > > This afternoon the phone rang, the woman introduced herself as Donna Allen who was calling from Tucson, AZ, she told me that our Village Historian had given her my number and I was all ears to listen to what she had in mind. She said she was researching her Youngstown family and wanted to know if there were any genealogists in the area who could help her. In answer to that I suggested that I may have already researched her family and when she told me that it was the family of John Turner, I replied, "Oh, you mean John and Agnes Turner?" Of course I knew the family and had researched it as thoroughly as I could from local records. When she realized that I really knew a lot about the family and started asking me a lot of questions, I interrupted her and asked if she had email. Yes she did. I gave her my email address and suggested she email me as to what was on her mind. And she did. > > I printed her message out, studied it carefully and then this evening I probably spent about two hours responding to it. I could tell that she wasn't a newbie to genealogy when she told me about some of her theories about the family. I felt that it was a challenge and at the same time her theories made me take a different slant on the family. > > While I was digging through my TURNER file of paper copies I came across an exchange of emails that I had with Beverley Lane from Illinois last August including a number of family group sheets she had mailed me on the same Turner family. Beverley and I haven't corresponded since. I didn't bother to tell Donna about Beverley in that I figured it could wait. So at 8:37 this evening I sent my reply to Donna. > > Well guess what? At 10:58 this evening out of a clear blue sky I received an email from Beverley Lane and all she said was to remind me of our correspondence of last year and asked me if I was still doing Niagara Co. genealogy research. I really couldn't believe the coincidence of two queries about the same family on the same day! Donna certainly didn't mention Beverley and Beverley certainly didn't mention Donna. But when I responded briefly to Beverley this evening I copied Donna and I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it was a coincidence or not. At any rate, it appears that the three of us need to get into a huddle on the TURNER/CAMPBELL family "mystery" around here! > > Genealogy is sooooo boring! > vee > > > >