Not at all. My grandmother had two sisters with the same name...one died in infancy, and like many males, the next female in the family was given the same name (it was a cherished name). The second sister lived to a nice old age. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Campbell" <margecam@comcast.net> To: <CAMPBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:50 PM Subject: [CAMPBELL] DNA - genealogy > All those skeletons will start coming out now.. Even our recent ones! > For me, this is exactly why genealogy is a paper trail puzzle. You can't > document blood, only paper. Too many traveling salesmen, milkmen & pesky > neighbors.. Not to mention brothers of the husbands..or fathers of the > husbands.. Or ... Well... > It was not as uncommon as we think. > We have one dna that came back the other day.. NO Match anywhere! Alien... > But I dropped out to two markers off..found one match. NOT a Campbell. No > matter... We knew that possibility already. > Don't toss the genealogy you have...if it's the way the paper trail leads, > take it. > It could be worse... A genealogist told a group of us once that she had > her > 9 year old grandson "helping" her look at films, wanted documentation for > the 40+ years of work she had done (huge binder).. Kid asked, "Gramma what > does d-e-c-'-d > i-n-f-a-n-t mean? 40 years of research..based on a person who died as an > infant! Her research went back to Scotland! She lost over 3/4 of the > generations on that one question by her grandson. > > After tossing the whole binder in the trash can (it wouldn't fit)..she > finally pulled it out and sat down to try to figure out where she went > off. > She figured that since she had the entire family documented..wills, > etc...that the family must have had another child right after this one, or > adopted a son??? Will never know I guess. > Marge > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > >