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Subject: Place or Blood or Both
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:41:33 EST


In a message dated 02/13/2001 7:45:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

<< Because it is a place name, most people who are named Crawford acquired the
name when they left the place. If everyone in Crawford used the name as
their surname, it would not be very useful as a means of identifying
specific people. Because of this, people named Crawford don't descend from
a single person or family from ancient times, but descend from many people,
probably unrelated, who left the Crawford area to relocate somewhere else
where identifying themselves as "John of Crawford" made sense as a unique
identifier >>
Hi Dale
That is quite right, but that is why most of us are doing this Family Tree
stuff. The name Crawford has been around a long time and I am quite sure that
Hundreds of thousands of people named Crawford are direct descendants of the
Twelve major Crawford Lines and even people who came from the area and
adopted the name will show some common DNA markers that will be familia in
nature.

Thomas Crawford

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