Sorry, cousins. It's all my fault. The dust seemed to be starting to settle, so I thought I would ask a simple question about an important physical characteristic that might help me find old John 1797 VT Carpenter's parents, hoping that I might help lighten things up with a bit of humor. I got mostly "yes!" answers to my query about big bushy eyebrows. Rest assured that there were also small, thin, no-eyebrow CARPENTERs with lovely little noses. Now I'm going to add that info to all my other info about VT-->NY Carpenters, and see if I can draw a straight line to the past from all of this. The implication that we can solve the nature vs. nurture question by example from our own simple views of our ancestors was not mine. I am simply looking for the bread crumbs that Hansel and Gretel Carpenter may have dropped along the way. Has anyone seen John and Mary CARPENTER of De Ruyter, NY? How are their parents doing these days? Genealogy, yes. Genetics, no. George R.