To add to what Doug has already said. I don't know who you were looking for, but if Quaker, they tended to marry Quakers (if not, they were disowned) and Quaker families tended to travel together. I have one set of first cousins who married each other. I have two male ancestors who married sisters. I have at least one ancestor who married a niece of his father's wife; thus, you COULD get some pretty tangled family trees. Going back into medieval times--the gentry married each other; thus, the Duttons would be related to the other gentry by more than one line. Dick's data could be right or wrong--checking the primary evidence would solve the mystery. Carole P.S. I also do not have the RAM required for such a huge file! Dick sent me one medieval zipped gedcom file. -------------------------- Doug Hall wrote: > > Betsy and others, > > Shortly after he told us all in November that he had been diagnosed with > MDS, Dick asked if anyone would like a copy of his master file. It was over > 10 Mbytes in size with nearly 250,000 names. I had responded that I would > like a copy of it, but Dick was too close to the end of his life to respond > again. He warned us about imperfections in the data and said that he was > only really able to guarantee his own direct line. > > If someone on the list did get a full copy of his master file, I would like > to obtain a copy too. Or, does anyone know how to download a full file from > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dickdutton > > In a file as large as Dick's there well may be information regarding distant > lines that you are unaware were connected. > > My own research in Quaker families of Chester County has turned up many, > many connections that I would never had thought existed. If your parents and > your husband's mother's family have roots in the same geographical area for > more than 3 generations, then there could very well be connections in Dick's > database. > > Doug Hall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Charmd1z@aol.com> > To: <DUTTON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:56 PM > Subject: Looking for someone who knew Dick Dutton's information > > > I understand that someone on the Dutton list may have shared information > with > > Dick Dutton and may be fairly familiar with his GedCom file. If so, can > you > > please contact me off the list at: Charmd1z@aol.com > > > > My problem is this: In searching through RootsWeb's WorldConnect Gedcom > > Files the other night I plugged in several names that show up in my > ancestry. > > These were random names from both of my parents and also a name from my > > husband's family. Dick's files kept coming up. Now, to find names from > one > > of my parents wouldn't be such a big deal, but the names that I'm > researching > > came and found his information in came from BOTH parents ancestors (who > are > > supposed to be unrelated as far as I know) AND my husband's mother's > family > > (which definitely shouldn't be related to mine). > > > > I'd really like to solve this mystery. If anyone could help me, I'd > really > > appreciate it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Betsy Hale > > Charmd1z@aol.com > >