Nicolas Blackhurst wrote: > Carole, > > I don't see the problem with a few Normans having Anglo-Saxon first names. -----------------------------Snip------------------------------------------ Hi Nick, Good for you! I agree with your position 100% but do not have the detailed knowledge to express it nearly as well. Like you, I have subscribed, and unsubscribed to the GenMed List - for the same reasons. (In defense of that List, however, there are a couple of very knowledgeable and helpful individuals to be found there.) I also agree, in principal, with those who say that every fact should be documented with original source data, but we all know that this Utopia can never be achieved. Many of the necessary documents, if they ever existed, have long since ceased to exist. In their absence, I feel we have no practical choice other than to proceed with the "Preponderance of Evidence" and let the Nea Sayers produce the documentation to prove us wrong. That said, Carole - who do you (and the Preponderance of Evidence) favor for our ??G grandpappy (Odard's dad)? I am thoroughly confused. Dick