someone wrote: >>>>>>birthmark that seems to be "handed down" with each generation, a light-red round mark on the back of the head, right above the neck. It is usually right above the hairline<<<<< my youngest son has one but it is about the size of a silver dollar. I nor my brothers do not. I will querie my relatives to see if anyothers have one. I have not 'connected' with any of you as my John James PERKINS imm from N Ireland, abt 1870 to NY, NY and family remained there. if any of you know of or find any ancestral RUGGLES' drop me a line please. I see very little posted about the Canadian PERKINS'. In my RUGGLES research I have seen the name mentioned often. Many escaped the Colonies in the 1770's, lived a few generations there and then gradually moved back into the USA Bill