I think it is common to find family marriages in the early 1800's to keep the land in the family. tom -----Original Message----- From: Lee [mailto:leeg@erols.com] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:18 AM To: MDWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] family members inter-married At 03:32 PM 8/14/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Hello everyone: > >Please forgive my intrusion. I only seek to ask a question. I know that >many of you have found family members inter-married several times over, >especially in the 1700's and early 1800's. > >I wonder if I could get your help and/or your opinion...how likely do you >feel it would be to find that 2 of your 6th great-grandfathers were >brothers? I have received documentation and other information from >various family members, and records, and I have checked and re-checked. I >thought I had already come across just about every inter-family type of >connection. > >Has anyone encountered this situation? > >Thank you for your time and assistance. > >Fran Fran, I once helped a lady tracing some ancestry from 1800 back to 1650, she one ancestor living at about 1800 who had 7 paths in the tree back to a common ancestor (who was Edward Dorsey of VA and Providence (Anne Arundel Co.) MD who drowned when his boat sank off Kent island in 1659). There had been just a lot of first and second cousin marriages among the prominent families of the area that were her ancestors. it seems it was the norm in the 1600s and 1700s . Lee ==== MDWASHIN Mailing List ==== Are your ancestors Pennsylvania Dutch?? Check out the Pennsylvania Dutch Family History site at: http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/padutch/ ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/