At 09:12 PM 01/10/1999 -0500, "Doug Hall" <doughall@mediaone.net> wrote: >Here is one web page that claims a specific link between John Dutton of >Reading, Mass and the Duttons of Cheshire. This is not proven and is very >doubtful, if not impossible. > >http://idt.net/~barbour9/d0000/g0000028.html#I1563 > >Doug Hall Doug: This specific information is, I think likely, one of several repetitions of an error that has crept into the Mormons' Personal Ancestral File (the multi-CD database available at Family History Centers, not the program). It is instructive to follow the ancestry of Thomas Dutton of Reading, Woburn, and Billerica back; the four most recent generations of Duttons in his paternal line are patently impossible, with one family group containing children born over a period close to a century long, and one (perhaps the same one, I don't recall) with the father younger than some of his offspring. I believe, from viewing the "history of the record" notes in P.A.F., that the worst of the confusion is an artifact of the merging process used by the keepers of P.A.F. "Trust, but verify." Darrell A. Martin formerly of Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com