> The beauty of genealogy is that we learn facts and apply hypotheses. When > we get more information, we rethink the hypothesis, etc., etc. I bet > finding out that your Isabella was a niece rather than child of Isabella > Stewart Gardner was just as exciting. ================= Since I'm not related to her the find produced more intellectual joy than anything, but yes, I got a kick out of it. I once wrote a biography of a nineteenth century musical comedy star and in my research found out that she and her sisters had swapped names in their teens and were actually buried under one another's names. Charlie