Candy Leggett wrote: > > <sigh> > > I have Mayflower ancestors .... > I have Mayos on my maternal side that descend from the infamous > Thomasine/Tamsen/Tomzin Lumpkin/Constable/Davy/Savage and Eldridges on my > paternal side that descend from her sister Anne. > I have at least five generations who all came from Mt Desert Island ME > > it seemed all of them married their cousins or their brothers' widowed > wives or their sisters' bereft husbands ... and sometimes they married two > different cousins who had the same name!!! and were born within a few years > of each other .... > > sometimes I think there were only a dozen or so "approved" first names in > early Massachusetts, so every researcher since has had to be supercareful > to make sure they are talking about the correct "John" or "Hannah" for > there might also be two or three of them in the same family - children who > died young, then a succeeding child was given the same name ... > > or the researchers were NOT careful .... > > and they all seem to have had at least ten children .... > > my main lines are MAYO, LORD, TORRENCE/TORRANCE, EATON, SMITH, SNOW, > HIGGINS, BASSETT, GOODRICH, BARTLETT, SHELDON, KNOWLES, HOPKINS > > and on my father's side ELDRIDGE, KEENY, GROVE, UPDEGRAFT > lots more questions, roadblocks, and stonewalls on that side - plus they > moved around a good deal and stayed with relatives .... > > I'm also starting to research my husband's LEGGETT name with links to > CULLEN and PICKETT in Pennsylvania - the Johnsons are recent immigrants > from Sweden and Norway so that will wait until I really have time to go > over and look in person > > list - oh my am I on lists: Ohio, Columbiana Co. OH, Missouri, Schuyler Co. > MO, Maine, Hancock Co. ME, Pennsylvania, Cumberland Co. PA, York Co. PA, > Indiana, plus about every surname I above - plus THE-ROAD ... I hit up the > genforums regularly and set up a Yahoo Club site for the Eldridges and > another one just for the links that wouldn't fit on the Eldridge site > (Yahoo limits you to 100) > > with that kind of ancestry you are probably ALL my cousins - so give > yourselves a great big hug from me > > Candy > > ==== KISSINGCOUSINS Mailing List ==== > > My life has become one large Gedcom file!! Candy, It was not uncommon in Scotland when I child died at an early age or birth to name another child the same name. I am sure the same was true for the US at this time. Why wait to go to Sweden and Norway to start checking your husbands family? Rootsweb has sites that may pertain to those areas. The more names you have to check the more intersting it becomes. If you start searching for your husband's family you will only get 3 hours sleep a night instead of 6. Every time I add a name to my list its 1 less hour of sleep I get a night. If I add 4 more names I won't sleep at all. :( Good luck in your search. Janet Tennent Kensington, Maryland