In a message dated 98-07-28 12:07:37 EDT, you write: > I don't know that this would necessarily apply to this > instance of so many Christinas, but I've learned in > other research I've done [or simply talking with other > researchers], that it was not especially rare for > there to be several children of the same name in the same > family. Richard, the only thing we can say with any assurance about the 2 daughters named Christina is that only one of them was living at the time her father wrote his will in 1779. Joan