Not quite, covered in #3 but a wee bit more tactfully ;-) Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Haggerty" <smhaggerty@shaw.ca> To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [CO CORK] FAMILY TREE DNA > Cliff, you missed a fifth possibility. A married woman bearing a child > whose > biological father was not her husband--not uncommon, today as well as in > the > past! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cliff. Johnston" <moments-in-time@comcast.net> > To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:37 PM > Subject: Re: [CO CORK] FAMILY TREE DNA > > >> Ev, >> >> When one sees different surnames with that close a match at 67 markers >> then >> one has to look for some of the following: >> 1. an adoption >> 2. a male who married and changed his name - done on occasion for money >> to >> shore up a line that had daughtered out. >> 3. a child born outside of a marriage and taking either his mother's >> name >> or that of a close relative who raised the child. >> 4. Someone changing his surname to avoid being found, either by the law >> or >> a wife. > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message