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From: Dean Scribner <>
Subject: Re: Oldest son was Re: Re: [TMG] "After" dates
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:21:33 -0800


Teresa wrote:
>I once saw a genealogy done by a woman claiming to be the only child of
an only child, of an only child back to this one ancestor where
(supposedly) she could inherit a large sum of money. She states that
she's in this long run of only children and she alone is due the
inheritance. Then at the end of the article, she states that it's
possible her husband is an heir too. (HUH???)<

Maybe so! It takes two ancestors to make each descendant. It appears she
married her nth cousin, who is descended from the same milkman as one of
those only children.

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