singhals wrote: > > I've stared at this until I've driven myself into a depression. So then > I dragged some good friends into it, and they've gone cross-eyed. > > Now I'm inviting comments from the world-at-large. (g) > > What are the odds of a man b 1833 who, except for his CW service, NEVER > lived more than 27 miles from his birthplace in VA, having married 3 > separate women with the same given names, only the middle of whom left a > death record, and only the first and 2nd left a marriage record? > > There are numerous other details, but that's the broad picture, and what > I'm after here is -- is this a common-as-dirt scenario, or it is a > one-of-a-kind, or is it neither rare nor frequent? > > Thanks. > > Cheryl Thanks, everyone on-list and off- Consensus seems to be -- neither/nor. I was afraid of that. (g) Cheryl