Last year I started recording the cause of death along with the other vital information about the descendants of John Breedlove (of North Carolina) in my database (at <http://www.geocities.com/~arslanm/breedlove/breedlove.html>). I've started doing this for the other families I am researching, too. It does show if certain diseases are prone to run in certain branches of families. I don't see any evidence of skin cancer in this branch of the Breedlove's (murders were more common), but it's far distant from your line and only a small sample size is represented. I wish you the best of luck. Take care. tomlking wrote: > Having just come home from the hospital after having a cancerous > carcinoma removed from behind my ear, I wonder just how prevalent cancer > and skin cancer is in the other Breedlove lines. I know my > 3G-grandfather Ira Meade Breedlove had skin cancer as it shows on his > neck in the pictures I have of him and his obituary in 1879 says he died > of that dread > disease cancer. Very few other descendants of Ira have had it to my > knowledge and one died of cancer having worked all his life in a nuclear > power plant in Washington so it's hard to tell if he got cancer from > hererity or from his job. Doctors have told me my skin cancer came from > being light complected and the overexposure to the sun down here in > Texas. I hardly go outside but a couple of times a day just to walk the > dogs, but it will be with a hat from now on. > > Do any of the other Breedlove lines have any history of cancer or other > diseases that perhaps we are all prone to? > > _____NetZero Free Internet Access and Email______ > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html