I am a twin, with several other sets also being born within my various cousins. As a twin, I often heard the family lore of how twins "ran in the family", usually to every other generation. In fact, my mother and her sisters have always believed that their grandparents had "at least two, maybe three, sets of twins -- all of whom died at birth", all sets having at least one boy named "Alfred", and all born prior to them leaving England for the USA. My mother insists to this day that when she brought my twin sister and I home from the hospital in 1948, that my gr.grandfather stood by our crib with tears in his eyes and said, "I'm glad they made it", referring (at least in my mother's memory) to the sets of twins that he and his wife had lost. I've never been able to find any of these twins being born to my gr.grandparents in England in the BMD records. My gr.grandfather's 1949 obituary did not list any twins being born to him and my gr.grandmother. It did mention a daughter and son who preceded him in death, an important lead for me as I did not know for years that they existed. I have found the son, but not the daughter. Anyway, I thought I'd mention this as your twin thread reminded me of the twin myths in my own family. I use the pleural of "myths" because my cousin who is a twin disproved the "every other generation" myth by reproducing her very own set of twins! Jean