While I was "home" in Marshall County last week, I spent some good time at the City-County Library doing research. I had set myself the task of looking up several obituaries in the microfilmed copies of the Moundsville Echo. Once into them, I rediscovered the "Personals" column that they ran in years past and could not resist reading them as I browsed the pages. It was taking me off my primary task but it was fun so I kept at it. I made a marvelous discovery. An ancestor that had just seemed to disappear from the Marshall County census showed up in one of those personals. There she was visiting in Moundsville from Dilles Bottom, Ohio. Now I know why they were no longer in that census and I can pursue them in Ohio. So if you find yourself looking up something in the old Echos,let your eyes wander to the personals column. You may hit the jackpot like I did! It was wonderful meeting so many of you at the dinner. Hope we'll do it again some time. Alice Walton Mason