One of our grandsons, Daniel, was born in Bountiful, Utah, in the summer of 1982. He started school in St. Louis Park, Minn., and while in the first grade became good friends with Eric, who was born in St. Louis Park in January 1982. After being born several months and several hundred miles apart, what other possible bond could these two young friends share?

About the same time that Daniel and Eric met, I had been spending many hours at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was discouraged. After several months of searching for information that would help me extend my husband's paternal line beyond his grandfather Samuel Sherman, I hadn't found anything new.