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Subject: Re: PABEDFOR-D Digest V04 #140
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:46:06 EDT

Hello Everyone!
I just realized what I said in a previous response to a question (see below)
sounds! What I meant in the sentence below is that two brothers from one
family married two sisters from ANOTHER family. Geesh!
Eilene

I said:
'I have seen brothers marrying sisters also, and coming down to the same
folks after several generations.'

Message dated 8/15/04 11:55:09 AM EDT,
writes:

> Hello Fran,
> Yes, the connection that you mention (the possibility that two of your 6th
> gr-grandfathers could be brothers) is definitely possible. I have a cousin
> that
> has a Hartman line in VA. Not only do they trace back to his 5th
> gr-grandfathers being brothers, but also one of their sisters is also
> another 5th
> gr-grandmother! So, of course, the 2 brothers and the 1 sister had the same
> parents;
> consequently. my cousin is a direct descendent of this one set of 6th
> gr-granparents THREE times. I have seen brothers marrying sisters also, and
> coming down to the same folks after several generations. I think that what
> you have discovered was actually fairly common. Our ancestors did not have a
> large
> variety of neighbors from which they might be able to choose their spouses.
> If
> they were in the same area at the same time, probable connection to the same
>
> people.
> Hope this helps,
> Eilene Harkless Moore
>
> Message 8/14/04 11:01:14 PM EDT writes:
>
> >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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