"J. Hugh Sullivan" <Eagle@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:47dfdda2.6731569@newsgroups.bellsouth.net... > > Where is the flaw in my logic? > You also need to show that nobody else of that particular line (a distant cousin, or an Uncle, for example) ever emigrated to the area upstream of your paper trail and could have been the ancestor. Lesley Robertson

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:51:36 +0100, "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote: > >"J. Hugh Sullivan" <Eagle@bellsouth.net> wrote in message >news:47dfdda2.6731569@newsgroups.bellsouth.net... >> >> Where is the flaw in my logic? >> >You also need to show that nobody else of that particular line (a distant >cousin, or an Uncle, for example) ever emigrated to the area upstream of >your paper trail and could have been the ancestor. >Lesley Robertson > > I know where each of the line went. When I say that I should add, I developed it from the mythical and historical books on the Irish back to creation. So any line that anyone develops is only as accurate as the source from whence it came. I have recorded the name of every Sullivan I have found in the area where my gg grand was born. My attempts have been to identify the line of every one so I could eliminate the impossible. SInce I'm talking about 1790 I used the census to learn the names. Obviously the census is not perfect but we can't relay on what we don't have - only what we have. I believe in preponderance of evidence until disproven. Hugh