This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alexander; Pryor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1603.3.3.2.2 Message Board Post: In another post I referred to the "loopy" relationship of Green Pryor and the Alexanders. It goes something like this: Pryor was the father of Martha Elizabeth Pryor who married Adam Rankin Alexander's son James Henry. Martha's mother died and Green then married Jane Maria Alexander, James Henry's sister. By her he had several children, among them the Sam H. you mentioned. This has created a double line in the family tree making it look more like kudzu. I used this particular group of ancestors to test genealogical programs to see which could best diagram what happens when a man marries his son-in-law's sister. I think Sam ends up being his own uncle . . .