Hello List Cousins, Just wanted to add another "story". We obtained a computer about four years ago, after my son became so interested in them in middle school. We basically did so, for the benefit of his school work. However, one evening I was 'playing around' on the Internet and typed in "Martha Stewart" - no not an ancestor - but the Martha Stewart guru of crafts, cooking, growing plants, and just about everything a super human could do around the home and whom we see all over the television, magazines, etc. Well, low and behold, what should turn up as the one and only "hit", but a Marriage List from early Reynolds County, Missouri. This is where my mother's parents were from and where I had visited many times in the summers of my youth. I am related to nearly every past resident of that county and the names on that list were nearly all familiar to me! Well, that did it! I've never been the same since - and no one else in the family ever gets the computer, much as I'm always on it! Oh - I forgot all about Martha Stewart's web site, and wouldn't have time now, for any of those projects anyway as all my spare (and not so spare) moments, are spent on my family history search. I truly believe this was an event of "serendipity". I mean, what are the odds that on the entire Internet, and out of all the counties in the entire United States, this county would surface! And there wasn't even a "Martha Stewart" on that marriage list! Down right spooky! For anyone who has had such an experience, or is interested, I just got the book Psychic Roots, Serendipity and Intuition in Genealogy, by Henry Z Jones, Jr. (there's a sequel, too) from the library. Can't give a review or recommendation as just obtained it, but thought I would pass this along. It can also be purchased from the publisher, Genealogical Publishing Co. (this is where I saw it listed and no, I have no connection, in any way, to this book, author or publisher). Sorry to make this so long, but I really feel we are into something very special. Why it only comes or 'bites' certain of us, is a question. An O'Neal cousin in Kansas, Brenda [email protected]