This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kdF.2ACIB/400.1.3.1.3.1 Message Board Post: vonne - I love you. At least you are one of the very few people that have the true family of Valentine posted - with Sarah Smith as the mother of everyone but Irene. But here is my question - what proof is there that Jared was the son of Thomas L and Jeane Painter? Why couldn't he be for instance the son of Thomas Branson and Rebekah Borden - brother of Eli and Levi Branson and the Jared E. (middle initial) stand for Elijah? His son Valentine named a son Elijah.