Sandra, you should not need to apologize. Your posting was completely appropriate. The response to you was inappropriate and not indicative of the usual manners displayed by those interested in the Stiles family. Regards, Bob Carroll On Sep 1, 2006, at 8:15 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Sorry. Don't see how asking where the family originated is at cross- > purposes with your posting but I apologize for annoying you. Oh and > I am the great niece of a William Stiles (middle initial unknown) > from Salem New Jersey whom I am researching, which is why your > posting caught my attention. >> [email protected] had written: >> Please read the post again. I am looking for relatives of William >> P. Stiles as the subject indicates. He was killed on the USS >> Serpens in 1945. The reason for the post is to make contact with >> any of HIS family members.