This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/2963.1 Message Board Post: Sharon, This actually applies to almost every family you research in one way or another. Some women also had 4 and 5 husbands. They married early. They married men much older than themselves. They were still having children at the same time as they were having grandchildren. In some families, the women married out of the family and under different surnames their children and grandchildren married back into it. Even the official documents can have errors on them, which causes even more problems verifying our research. I answered a query from Theresa Dial wanting information about the twin sister of Amon Dial. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.jasper&m=2960 She also posted a query on the Dial Message Board earlier in which she says Agnes disappeared in 1874. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.dial&m=446 I'm not a Dial researcher, I only posted what I found via Google and Federal Census. I did find the family in the 1860 and 1870 census, and as long as they were the correct family, there was not a twin for Amon listed. I attached those census to that post. Do you know what happened to Amon's twin? Did she survive even though she is not on the 1860 census with the family? I also noted the two Phillips in 1870 census. Ages there were 5 years apart. The Phillip with Amon in the household, ages did not all agree with the 1860 census. This often happens. Sometimes, it's the dates when the census were taken, and sometimes... it's just wrong. According to the 1860 census he would have been closer to 40 than 45. Did Theresa ever contact you? So far she hasn't answered my posts here. Orlena