> Well, sooner or later you may conclude that what evidence you have > is "good enough". You just have to remember that it is not > absolutely proven and you might in future in the light of new > evidence have to change your mind. > > [email protected] How true this is. I can think of a case in my own family history where I had assumed my great-great-great-grandmother's maiden name was Rebekah CLARK. I had had Rebekah KIGER's (her married name) tombstone and I had a will of a Thomas CLARK which included his daughter Rebecca KIGER in the same county where my KIGERs were living. I found a baptismal record for Rebecca CLARK and while it didn't exactly agree with the birthdate as listed on Rebekah KIGER's tombstone--the difference was merely a year or two and I couldn't account for anyone else who might be this Rebekah KIGER. I also wasn't overly concerned in the difference of the spelling between Rebecca and Rebekah--they just seemed like variants to me. Then I found a cousin from a different branch of the family (he descended from Henry KIGER, brother of my great-great-great- grandfather Matthias KIGER) who possessed an old KIGER family Bible and in the Bible were a bunch of births and deaths and marriages for people he couldn't identify. He showed me the Bible and I figured it out right away. Rebecca had been a previously unknown (or rather lost) first wife of his ancestor Henry KIGER and SHE was the Rebecca KIGER referred to in the will of her father Thomas CLARK. Rebecca had died in 1804 the same year her father died, and the Bible also recorded the births and deaths of two young sons of Rebecca and Henry KIGER. I later learned that MY Rebekah KIGER was really Rebekah LINDMEYER, daughter of Christopher LINDMEYER and wife Rebekah MINK. Two completely different women with slightly different birth years and different spellings of the name Rebecca/Rebekah. Rebecca CLARK and her two young babies would have disappeared completely from the family history had it not been for this family Bible turning up. So, yes, an open mind is always the best asset when doing family research. Joan [email protected]