I wonder. I can believe it if the children died within a very short time of one another. But when a baby is born and then dies a short time later, and this happens again and again in the same family, I wonder if it has to do with Rh incompatibility or the babies were killed in some manner. SID might have had something to do with it, but it has been proved that it is very rare, if at all, that SID happens more than once in a family. Karen -----Original Message----- From: June Barrett [mailto:barrettbj@webtv.net] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 7:05 PM To: GenConnecticut-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GenConnecticut-L] Epidemics In re to many families of children being wiped out by disease, diptheria was another killer during the years previous to the turn of the century and for a while after. In my great greats families many children died from this disease. Just look in the cemeteries and you will find whole families of young children buried there all in a short time of one another. June B ______________________________