I must share with you all a terrific experience of meeting some long lost relative. I knew the Bohm's on my mother's side started out in Bonduell, and this town being small, I found addresses on the web of all the Bohms living there currently, and wrote to them all, hoping that I would hear from at least one. A Milton Bohm received my letter, thinking it was just a crackpot letter, inadvertantly pushed it away in a drawer. This was last September. Last month when he visited his daughter in SC he happened to bring this letter to show her as she was researching their family lineage and not really knowing what to make of this letter. She read it, realizing there might be a connection and wrote to me, sending me some information of what she had. I immediately phoned her and we quickly realized we were connected, he was my mother's cousing.My mother is 96 yrs old this month so she was really excited also. They drove the 200 miles to my home last week end and we talked and talked and shared all our research info with each other, and also a picture of my mother's mother's family portrait including all the children taken about the late 1800. What a treasure. Now we have newly found family living just 200 miles away and we intend to visit them within the month. I am so excited. Perserverance sure does pay off. And Milton has since returned to Bonduell, and promised to stop and visit another relative we remembered, hoping she will be able to furnish us still more information, in Hartford WI. Just had to share my news with someone who understands the thrill of getting a "hit" as well as those times when we are so frustrated by reachin a "brick wall". Helen -- The Seafarer Crew in Bolivia, N.C. visit us at:http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Farm/2900/index.htm