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Subject: family members inter-married
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:25:52 EDT


Fran
How about finding 2 of your 4th great grandfathers as brothers on your
Paternal line and 2 of your 3rd great grandparents as siblings, 2 female and one
male, on your Maternal line? It's no wonder I'm not normal......LOL It wasn't
that unusual back then especially in small isolated communities.
Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] family members inter-married


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 >>

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