I have a suggstion similar to Jerry's psychological profile idea. All of us Rehoboth/Providence Carpenters have more or less inherited recollections of our Carpenter histories from well back into the 1800s. Each of us could write these up and publish them on this site. I have for a long time thought of doing my own anyway and planned to entitle it "Tale of Two Families", the story of two Rehoboth Carpenter groups that moved from Rehoboth, to Brattleboro Vermont and then to Worcester Massachusetts in the early 1800s. I can promise you will be entertained. If enough people did this a very priceless family portrait would emerge.This would be so much better than the usual "What happened to Aunt Blanche in Texas in 1880?", that usually fills this forum. My previous mention of genetics, and the suggestion that were are the product of our genes, raised the hackles of a Carpenter bird or two. The feeling that we are entirely the product of our social enviroment and free will is almost a religious belief today. Anyone who thinks genes decide who we are, even in part,is labeled a facist (i.e. a Hitler). The assertion that any of the three alone accounts for us alone is an extreme view i.e. a prejudice. Obviously all three have their part. Try not to abandon reason. Professor Carpenter