This is a good illustration. I'm not trying to posit Hans Georg as "first ancestor", just wondering how on earth he got mixed up in things. On the one hand, this is exactly the kind of mistake a genealogist would make (all of us, no doubt, from time to time!)--right surname, right time period, wrong family. Jones "ran with it", Mayme Hamrick buried him again in a footnote. On the other hand, if a "German George" exists in oral traditions, independent of archival research, one has to wonder how a real historical figure entered the oral tradition of the wrong family. > > David - > > I'm descended from Rutherford/Cleveland County Hamricks, and I can tell you > that my grandparents firmly believed they were descended from German > immigrants (Hans George). This wasn't a belief they picked up from whatever > contact they had with SC Jones, who was a distant cousin, but rather family > knowledge passed down from their parents and grandparents. Knowing my > family, I trust from the stories passed down from generation to generation, > had there been a link back to Ireland on the Hamrick side of our family, it > would have been passed on in family stories. > > The children of Hans George that came to North Carolina per my family's > records were George (m. Susanna Blanton) and Moses Richard (m. Mary > Bridges). I think both George and Moses Richard have been said to be > descendants of Patrick by others on this list - if there is anyone who can > point me to some documentation (other than just a web site reference) on > this I would be most interested. > > Thanks! > > Kathy ______________________________________________________________ Open your mind. Close your wallet Free Internet Access from AltaVista. http://www.altavista.com