This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZkB.2ACI/3014.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes. I'm finding that it did happen ... all the time ... everywhere. Jane, even as late as my generation, things like that still happened. I was born in 1963. My grandmother married in 1938 had 7 kids & my grandfather got shot & killed because he was messing with another man's wife. Then in 1962 my mother got married had me & my brother & in 1967 my dad burned to death in a head-on collision on Fri the 13th Jan 1967. I call it "real life". Real Life s***cks sometimes. (pardon the expression). To give you hope, I did receive one reply of an AXE murder that occurred in Garland Texas in 1880, and found one girl with the murderer's surname living in a house with her uncle later that year. Of course I've got a lot of follow-up to do to verify & checkout if either of my girls were his children but one must admit that's a very good lead. I appreciate your communication & will keep your story in mind. Anything that runs across my desk I will certainly forward to you. Keep those messages posted & maybe somebody will see it.