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From: "Agnes E. Cloninger" <>
Subject: Re: Dutch-Colonies-D Digest V99 #181
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:48:30 -0700


Barb and all

Please do not hang your genealogical discoveries on the statement below
about deeds - it has no value. The witnesses to deeds were mostly anybody
handy who was capable and willing. In this business as in all others there
is no "always".
Such a statement also presumes that the husband and wife were not the first
generation to live in the area and therefore had no nearby relatives to do
the honors.

Information published by Genealogical Societies is as subject to error as
any other published source.My own Society included.

Agnes

>From: "B. Suwathanangkul" <>
>To:

><<< Tips on finding maiden names from the 1992 Jackson County (MI)
>Genealogical Society:
> Nothing will give greater clues to maiden names than the
>witnesses to old wills.
> In the lower left hand corner of most deeds, you will find signatures
>of two to four witnesses. The first is always from the husband side.
>The next is almost always from the wife side and that is to protect her
>one-third dower right under law.>>>
>
>
>
>Barb
>A YANKEE in BANGKOK
>B.Barnes Suwathanangkul :

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