Books on a table

This afternoon I was one of the authors participating in the local book fair. Sitting next to me was Sharon Kossieck. I’d met Sharon earlier this year, when she asked me to speak at the local genealogy society’s monthly meeting

Sharon was displaying a genealogy book that she had prepared with her mother, with contributions from assorted cousins. The book was over 700 pages, an impressive volume, attractively put together and distinguishly bound.

We started to chat, and I noticed one of the names on the book’s cover was Catlitt. A not so common name, and one that pop’d up while researching my father’s line back to his great-great grandfather Johnson, and that grandfather’s father-in-law, Hugh Henry.

It turns out Catlitt is one of her family names. We both wondered, is there a connection?

Interesting how genealogy leads will pop up at the most unsuspecting times, and how ironic we were sitting next to each other at the book fair, each with our own book on family history on the table.