I'm on this list! Thanks for the message. It's been so long since I heard from anyone I forgot it existed. I'm looking for STEPHAN in Ithaca Tompkins CO. New York, and Kingston/Rondout Ulster County, New York. I am particularly interested in any ancestors of the COLE family from Kingston who may be out there. There is a family tale that says that Sarah HAVER STEPHAN (1825-1905) had a half brother who went to Australia. He made a great deal of money in Ostrich feathers. As he never married, he willed all his money to his half sister Sarah. Apparently the sum totaled 28 million dollars. Sarah never claimed the money because she did not have the money to pay a lawyer to prove her case. It all sounds too far fetched to believe but I intend to go to the library to look up the newspapers just to be sure. Sally COLE (granddaughter of Sarah STEPHAN) had written the story in a letter to my great grandmother Theresa CHARLTON IVERS. In it she said that she had read the newspaper articles and that they used to get letters from people asking for money. Are their any STEPHANS who know of this tale! Cynthia Busch