Sharon McAllister, Sharon Crawford and I have had some fun with what Sharon M and Sharon C call "Luther Cousins". Luther is a very small town east of Edmond. Just about all the long time residents are related in some form or another by many marriages [ as it is in many small towns ]. Sharon M and I are related through the BENNETT line. The two Sharon's are related by marriage [ one of them would have to explain it ]. Thus Sharon C and I were "Luther Cousins". I think Sharon C said that she had a link into one of my lines at some point [ I'm ashamed to say that I haven't pursued it ] so that we are in fact cousins. So I'm not sure where that leaves the "Luther Cousin" thing. What I, and my family, have always used "shirt tail cousin" to mean is someone that is related to you but so far off that it really has no meaning. Something like 5th cousin 12 times removed or some silliness like that. I have a LOT of shirt tail kin in the area near Marshall Oklahoma [ east of highway 74 and north of highway 33 ]. Many of the families in that area had marriable children about the time of the land runs so there were a lot of marriages from the start. My BENNETT's had 7 children [ small family by the standards of the day ] and that makes 6 families that were related to mine, about 1900 they started having children [ 9 in my line ] and by the 1920's [ when my mom was born ] I was related to just about everyone in the area. It was about that time that many of the family started to move about more so they didn't tend to marry in such a small pool of families. By the 40's and the war no one has stayed anywhere for long since. I read a book one time that said something to the effect that wars were a form of natural selection in that they tended to dilute the gene pool in any one area. (o:]>* Huggles *<[:o) Billie The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on!