"Dwayne Wrightsman wrote: > I agree with many of the theories proposed. It doesn't seem that unusual to me as in developing a tree over the last 40 yrs I have encountered dozens is not hundreds of multiple members of a famiy with another family - most of them are only 2 or three but I have some fours. Let me posit another theory - that sometimes relationships developed because of the relative social standings of families relative to each other vs many of the rest of what were frequently transient commumities and somewhat incompetent and dis-satisfied farmers. As well as going to church perhaps they had other contacts, - - thru politics, shopping, sharing projects or work, etc.. Wayne Lucore

My 4GGPs Jacob FEICK/FIKE & Eve MOYER had SIX of their 11 [known to me] children marry THOMASes. Four of the THOMASes were siblings, and the other two were first cousins of the afore mentioned four. Jacob & Eve actually had TWO sons-in-law named Jacob THOMAS. I don't actually know how far apart these families lived, but I would suspect near to each other, and with population density and transportation being what it was, one came into contact with far fewer people than one does today, and one tends to marry someone they know Thom Flory -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Lucore <welucore@yahoo.com> To: brethren@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 1:59 pm Subject: Re: [BRE] Explaining the Frantz-Garst Marriages "Dwayne Wrightsman wrote: > I agree with many of the theories proposed. It doesn't seem that unusual to me as in developing a tree over the last 40 yrs I have encountered dozens is not hundreds of multiple members of a famiy with another family - most of them are only 2 or three but I have some fours. Let me posit another theory - that sometimes relationships developed because of the relative social standings of families relative to each other vs many of the rest of what were frequently transient commumities and somewhat incompetent and dis-satisfied farmers. As well as going to church perhaps they had other contacts, - - thru politics, shopping, sharing projects or work, etc.. Wayne Lucore ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ Support Our Sponsoring Agency The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:McAdamsr@hotmail.com ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message