Hi, Kay. About asking people "do you know / have kin..." My sister-in-law, born in Princeton, WV, lived her teens in Roanoke, went to Longwood College in Farmville, VA... left school to marry a Keydet from VMI, traveled about while he served in the Army and later for NASA and IBM, lived in Quonset Point, RI, Pittsburgh, PA, Fort Sill, OK, Cheverly, MD, and Manalapan, NJ, among other places. After her four children were all in school, went back and completed her Bachelors and her Masters in Speech Pathology at Rutgers, divorced, moved to Southern CA with her two younger children and worked as a Speech Therapist to support them. One day at a nursing home, she was working with an elderly patient who had suffered a stroke that had damaged her ability to speak. In the middle of the session, another elderly woman opened the room door and poked her head in to say hello, and apologized for interrupting the work. My sister-in-law, who had long ago left her SWVA accent behind, nevertheless had the ear to recognize one when she heard it, and asked the woman from where she hailed. She was born and raised in Wise Co, in far Southwest VA, she said. Knowing that she had numerous relatives in that region, my sister-in-law asked about the woman's family names, found out one of them was NICHOLS, asked further questions and found out that they were second cousins! The genealogist within strikes, again! *~) Clouds keep drifting overhead bringing darkness where there was light, but the sunlight breaks through. We were inundated yesterday, but no rain so far today. Sounds like we're in a similar weather pattern, these 2000 miles away. Enjoy your Sunday. Carolyn