In a message dated 2/29/2004 7:43:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > The Smith line will go back to American > Revolution times etc. See what I mean? A lot of generations there and all > of them had many children and multiple marriages. The branches of that line > drive a person insane who never had somewhere to start. Thank Goodness a > lot of it is already researched. > I am a Smith, and yes, indeed, I know what you mean. It took me about twenty years or so to get mine sorted just to 1700, as they were all named John and William, In the early seventies when I was sorting Smiths, genealogy was not so popular, there was no internet, and no one had previously taken the incentive to tackle them. I had to begin as they say, from "scratch". My question re the 1963 date was prompted by the fact that we don't share the birthdates of living individuals. I, therefore, assumed it to have been a typographical error.