Welcome Dennis !!!! This is a great list with many great people. And I believe there are still nice people who would do such a good thing as listed below. (I have had the pleasure to have met several.) *Smile* Carol J. Researching: Rifenbury/Rifenbery/Rifenburg Groover, Manning, Jacobs, Shadwick [email protected] wrote: > Welcome Dennis! > > I just had a nice story told to me today and I hope you all don't mind if I > repeat it here. > I was chatting with this lady when one thing led to another. I told her about > my hobby of genealogy. She in turn told me how "Someone" had looked up her > family tree. But the best part was that she said there was a family story > abiout her grandfather coming through Ellis Island that. > He was Polish and there was a Scotsman with 14 children. She said the > Scotsman had no shoes and they put you in jail for not having shoes. Well her > grandfather had an extra pair of shoes and gave them to the Scot. The Scot > then offered him his bagpipe, which her grandfather refused. The Scot then > gestured to give the shoes back. Neither speaking the others language > communicated that one could not accept the shoes without payment of the > bagpipe in return. She states her family still has the bagpipe and the > children get it out occasionally and try to play it. > I wonder if anyone would be that kind in todays world? > Cindy > Ormond Bch.FL