A wonderful surprise - I received a phone call from my second cousin after corresponding through snail mail and e-mail about trying to research our family: my paternal great grandfather - his paternal grandfather.  His father and my grandfather were brothers......

If I could give any advice to anyone on family matters of the heart - don't wait to ask questions about your family - there are so many wonderful stories and things to know.  When generations live on w/out asking and knowing about family, you have no idea what you've missed out on and how hard it can be to piece together the past with so little to go on.

Nevertheless, my cousin was able to share a full middlename that I had not had for my great grandfather that solves another mystery.  I can only hope that it may unlock a few doors that will in turn lead us to more ancestral information.

Now I can state for the record - my great grandfather was Edward Tillman Keen, born abt 1875-1877 and married to Helen Twitty in December 1903.  I hope to be able to scan the newspaper article I found a while back that had them in the Atlanta Journal with the most amazing photograph announcing their engagement and marriage.  They were married in Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia.

Don't let the wonderful history of your family remain unknown; give your children the legacy of knowing their family's ancestry.

Blessings to all!

Harriette Keen Jacobs