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From: Lee <>
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] family members inter-married
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:17:35 -0700
In-Reply-To: <00ae01c48235$7daa3200$7dcdc241@yourw92p4bhlzg>


At 03:32 PM 8/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello everyone:
>
>Please forgive my intrusion. I only seek to ask a question. I know that
>many of you have found family members inter-married several times over,
>especially in the 1700's and early 1800's.
>
>I wonder if I could get your help and/or your opinion...how likely do you
>feel it would be to find that 2 of your 6th great-grandfathers were
>brothers? I have received documentation and other information from
>various family members, and records, and I have checked and re-checked. I
>thought I had already come across just about every inter-family type of
>connection.
>
>Has anyone encountered this situation?
>
>Thank you for your time and assistance.
>
>Fran

Fran, I once helped a lady tracing some ancestry from 1800 back to 1650,
she one ancestor living at about 1800 who had 7 paths in the tree back to
a common ancestor (who was Edward Dorsey of VA and Providence (Anne Arundel
Co.) MD who drowned when his boat sank off Kent island in 1659).
There had been just a lot of first and second cousin marriages among the
prominent families of the area that were her ancestors. it seems it was
the norm in the 1600s and 1700s .

Lee


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