Even though sometimes discussion gets a little wordy, I still appreciate all the research that Stephen Squires, Mike Disbrow, etc. have done. I would like to do more, but finances do not allow it. Unfortunately our ancestors did not have the advantage of better record keeping instruments, had poor spelling and writing knowledge and did not have much imagination when it came to naming all their children. There is such a thing as naming one's offspring after other family members and carrying it on too much. Fortunately, my own immediate has not stuck to this so fervantly; we have more or less only carried part of a person's name forward, using it for a middle name for instance. Why our forbears had to name even their later offspring by a name that they had already used for one who died was not very helpful to us who came later. In addition using such few common names in such abundance sure has not helped us at all, has it? All of you who get the chance to dig up any information for us, I greatly appreciate. Because my maternal side seemed to die at such an early age up to my own grandparents, has not been at all helpful. Even my mother and her brother did not know their maternal grandparents, etc. My own father left my mother before I was born and I was 56 before I met him. That was not a very enlightening experience either, for he had remarried later and had six more children with whom I have not been able to have any relationship. His youngest daugher who still lived at home, along with her children, is the age of my oldest daugher. She was also disagreeable enough to tear up letters I sent to him after I finally located him. I also saw that I did not really miss anthing when I was growing up, for he was a bitter, grouchy man who did not have the values nor education with which I was surrounded as I grew up. Leonora (Lea) Roberts