Cousin Jeanne, GOOD Going! I had always suspected the connection. Like you, I had thought it would be through his mother. Doesn't someone already have him in their database so that we could get a (small) GEDCOM of his line? Cuz Mark Stearns Arab, AL ------------- > Well, it looks like I can answer my own question. I checked in the Van >Wagenen book (the Isaac Stearns one) and found the ancestry of T. S. Eliot. >I've cut and pasted below a three generation outline leading up to T. S. >Eliot. If anyone would like me to post the line further back, just ask. >(It turns out that he leads all the way back to Isaac Stearns and his wife >Mary Barker! ) > >Jeanne