Dave Hinz <[email protected]> wrote: > singhals <[email protected]> wrote: > > META discussion of theory -- names not needed, no lookups needed. I just have to jump in here and add that I, too, have done something quite similar to Dave's adventure: I found a man who had the surname of interest and whose wife had my late sister's given name. Too, the man was born in NC as was the man I sought. For about a year, in every spare moment I tracked this man, recording the most minute detail of his life, positive he was my GrGrandfather. Well, one day a fellow researcher found a record that my Grandfather had lived in a certain place in 1930. Come to find out, it was my real grandfather. Also about this time Y-DNA proved I was _not_ a member of the first, well-researched and documented family, so I handed over all my papers to the descendants of the man I had so completely documented and began anew. Unfortunately for me, my real family did not leave much of a paper trail. So---when do we stop the search? Fred "Fred Frederick" <[email protected]>

Fred Frederick wrote: >Dave Hinz <[email protected]> wrote: > >>singhals <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>META discussion of theory -- names not needed, no lookups needed. I'm not sure whether I mis-stated or you gentlemen mis-read, but the issue isn't whether I've got evidence of the right person. The issue is, there IS no evidence with the right name on it. Cheryl singhals <[email protected]>