The Needle in a Haystack

by Mary D. Wood

My e-mail address is marywood@epix.net
and I live in Montrose, PA.

While visiting the local library with my mother several months ago, I was browsing through the new releases and found a newly published genealogy book.

As I flipped through the pages I noticed a reference note containing the surname of my great grandmother. The reference listed a professional genealogist whose writing was quoted and the genealogy newsletter that the article quoted was from.

I wrote to the organization asking for the lady's address and received the information. I then wrote to the lady with all of the info that I had on my ggrandmother and asked if she thought there was a connection.

To my surprise, she wrote back saying that, as far as she could tell, her husband's gr-grandfather and my gr-grandmother were siblings.

She has now picked up where she left of with her research on "our" family that she abandoned when she turned professional and we are in contact regularly. Why I picked up that book and why I noticed that tiny reference note can only be explained by serendipity.

Submitted:  Sat Sep 28 04:50:54 1996

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