In a message dated 7/9/2012 12:22:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gale_gorman@me.com writes: > Same thing happened in my ancestry so it was not uncommon for two sisters > from one family to marry two brother from another You're right--the gene pool was very limited in those days. My great-uncle married one girl and sometime after her death, married her sister. So were the two sisters' children half-siblings or half-cousins--or both? </HTML>