In a message dated 12/29/01 10:24:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, gkilgore@primenet.com writes: > One of those little stories that add spice to life. > Good or bad, I still loved him, he was after all, my grandfather. > On one of my lines my GGGPa Sumpter who was a justice of the peace back in the early 1800s left his first wife and 14 kids for a younger woman and together they had 11 more children. To me that is genealogy it is not only uncovering the past but learning how life's pattern of today was really not that much different back then. Rather then divorcing their wives many just up and left the state with another woman. Sad but it is true. Others left for other reasons. To me I find these skeletons add more character to life and make us want to search deeper for our roots. We never know what we will uncover. Some people say there was no divorce in our family but I always say, "you never know until you uncover the past." Anyways happy hunting all. Take care DdHober <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/d2hober/civilwar.htm">Civil War Resources</A>