...yes, I'm glad I didn't ask -- but really enjoyed getting more information about you and your family -- more commonalities!! Hurrah for your church!! It must be doing things right! This is the first time I've lived someplace where the United Methodist Church was listed as "Other" in the phonebook!! It's pretty heavily Scandinavian and Germanic Lutheran and Catholic with some delightful Russian Orthodox thrown in. Yep, you're right -- I think 'our project' is to find out where these John's and Edward's and William's and George's and Jameses interrelate. I'm 'hunching' that 'my' John b. c. 1800's is either brother or (farthest away) cousin of George and James of the TM variety.