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From: Carl English Porter <>
Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Hello All.. Have I got a story for us all...
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:44:47 -0500


I think that story of how Elizabeth Andrews Duncan & Karen Ek Shultz met
has you beat.. Both on vacation, both admiring a piece of furniture, like
great grandma's both had same ancestor!!!

Carl

Charlotte Oneal wrote:

> Neat! Had you been at the Sheraton Old Town, you all might have met Cara
> Lyn Oneal, my niece.
> Charlotte Oneal [no apostrophe]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: O'Neill, James <>
> To: <>
> Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 9:38 AM
> Subject: RE: [ONEALL-L] Hello All.. Have I got a story for us all...
>
> >It truly is amazing how those things happen. I just moved last
> >November to Los Angeles from Detroit, and moved next door to an
> >O'Neill family from Belfast. Spelled the same way as my last name.
> > What are the odds? Anyway, I just signed up for this "discussion
> >group" and don't know how to post things to the entire group. I just
> >see the emails that come to me. Can you help me out? Thanks so much.
> > - James O'Neill
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Randie O'Neal [mailto:]
> >Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 8:34 PM
> >To:
> >Subject: [ONEALL-L] Hello All.. Have I got a story for us all...
> >
> >I have been on this list for about 2 years now, and have been mostly
> >silent..
> >But, today I must share something with you all that demostrates how
> >truly
> >small our world is:
> >This morning, I was with my family, at a breakfast buffet at a Holiday
> >Inn
> >Express Albuquerque, NM. While walking towards the buffet, I overheard
> >a
> >gentleman say the following: "You see, there's two ways the name's
> >spelled:
> >NEIL and NEAL; Mine's spelled O'NEAL"... Of course, I had to ask if he
> >was
> >interested in geneology and... This was John O'Neal, a frequent poster
> >to
> >our ROOTS board! John and I had a wonderful, yet short discussion
> >about our
> >family... Cool or what??
> >
> >
> >

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