It was also my impression that Twain's granddaughter died childless. On the other hand, there are at least two articles out there (New York Times, 8-15-93) and the Minneapolis Star Tribune (5-18-94) that reported Twain as a direct ancestor of O'Neill. The Star Tribune story said that this is surprising, but I don't think they knew how surprising. Terry Ballard (Librarian on duty) "Patience comes to those who wait." ---------- From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Yankee Paul O'Neill Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 4:29PM Additional info on Paul O'Neill is available at: http://espn.go.com/mlb/profiles/profile/3793.html Perhaps one of our enterprising Forum correspondents could land an interview regarding the Twain claim. Barb