Alice wrote: > Hope this doesn't sound like too stupid of a question, but who in the > world > was Lorenzo Dow that he had so many people named after him? > Ha! I had the same question when I began genealogy research last year! It's not stupid at all--a very relevant question in this business! Check out the article at http://www.ancestry.com/home/Myra_Vanderpool_Gormley%5CShaking_Family_Tree06-12-97.htm (all on one line) for a brief bio on Lorenzo. In short, he was an evangelist who preached in the US and Europe around 1800 and initiated 'camp meetings'. (I did a search on a Web search engine and found over 2300 entries of folks with ancestors that have 'Lorenzo Dow' as their given names!) Terri McDonald Hauk motfot@tdl.com