Brenda, Not to dampen your enthusiasm for intuition. I depend on mine. And have had some really odd things happen. But when searching on the internet, depending on the search engine and how you keyed in your names, the engine searches for both names. If both the name Martha and the name Stewart are listed anywhere on the page it will be a result of your query. For example the name Martha Brown and the name Jeb Stewart may be on the same page. It is possible for this page to come up in your results on searching for Martha Stewart unless you specify "all the words as a phrase". But it is still very interesting that the county that came up was one you were very familar with. I've probably only confused matters. But was trying to help. Trisha Carden [email protected] Researching surnames: Allison, Alston, Assheton, Basham, Beard, Bonner, Boteler, Clark, Cockriel, Coleman, Cosle, Costly ,DeHavering, DePlumpton, Dowell, Draper, Ellis, Ensor, Epley, Evans, Foster, Gatlin, Gerard, Hamilton, Henderson, Huddleston, Hudnall, Hulme, Isbell, Jared, Jarrell, Jarrett, Jewry, Kinchen, Lasly, LeBoteler, Legh, Lollar, Lykins, Lyles, Maddux, Majors, Maney, Mayberry, Mowbray, Mulyneaux, Neel, O'Neal, Palmer, Parker, Phelps, Phillips, Plumpton, Port, Porter, Prime, Rafferty, Roberts, Roos, Ruffin, Ruthven, Scarborough, Scarburg, Shanks, Sherrill, Sirles, Smith, Starnes, Stewart, Strangways,Swallows, Talbot, Taylor, Thomas, Tollar, Trafford, Tucker, Turner, Whitacre, Whitaire, Wray, Young ---------- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Success stories~How you became interested in Family History >Date: Thu, Nov 5, 1998, 9:38 AM > >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] >