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Subject: Re: [NYC] general genealogy question
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:07:01 EST
In a message dated 4/1/02 2:54:45 PM, writes:
<< For instance, if I find a family member in a city directory at 12 ABC
Avenue, and then I find a person with the same surname at 20 ABC Avenue, and
another with the same surname at 15 ABC Avenue, would there have been fair
likelihood that these folks might have been related somehow?
>>
I think the answer to that would depend a lot on the ethnicity of the
particular family.
I know my Irish-American family did not live near each other. But other
ethnic groups may have lived in closer proximity.
Janet C-S
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