Fran, IMHO I don't think that it would be unlikely. People use to tend to stay in one place as families. And if they did move on, many times the whole family went. In the small mid-western town where I grew up, I was related to many, many people because of the family thing. And on my father's side of my family, I have situation similar to yours in my FORT family. ~Leslie Kohler~ ***Remembering 9/11*** ---------- From: "Branches & Lil' Twigs" <epaurora@visuallink.com > 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