----- Original Message ----- From: "Lester M Powers" <lesterps@juno.com> To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:14 PM Subject: [CRV] Re: How do you know he's your John Dwight? > I think Marilyn asked a hypothetical regarding a > research method. > > > My question is - if you don't know that your ancestor > > lived there and you only have a name and no additional > > info to connect to - how can you assure that this is > > your John Dwight and not another one? > > Marilyn and others (me too!) will no doubt be in > the same fix again with another line, even if the Dwight > branch is solved, asking, "Where did this ancestor come > from???" In other words, How do I trace the geographical > meanderings of an ancestor from point A on the map to > point B, where I know point B but can't get back from > there and learn wherever point A was? I am at this > brick wall myself at the moment. Another problem. I have ancestors that appear to have landed in MBC from a flying saucer: WHITMORE/WETMORE, DWIGHT, CROW, HALL, HICKS, FLETCHER, PARTRIDGE, Mary and the SMITH Bros., and if I thought real hard I could name more. There is not a trace of them on the other side of the pond. It's a brick wall made of salt water. Who were their parents and where did they come from? Genealogy doesn't stop at the beach, IMO. Yrs aye, Warren Wetmore