Yes, good story! Just found out this summer my husband's Hopkins (I think) ancestors are from that very county. Wonder if you & he are related? haha Just love these "small world" moments! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
----- Original Message ---- From: Erin Bradshaw <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, September 12, 2011 3:23:36 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] UnSourced Internet Trees I have a perfect example of unsourced trees. I contacted a woman on Ancestry that had included my great grandfather Merret. She even had a copy of his deaf certificate with cause of death. When I contacted her to ask how she was related to him (I had a copy of his Bible record with all the children listed), she responded saying that all the Merrit families in Wayne County, Illinois were related. I responded back - really? Because my great grandfather was illegitimate. (I knew his mother and was lucky enough to have copies of letters written by her.) I never heard from this woman again. And she no longer included my grandfather and his family in her tree. Erin Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
