John,

Sorry for misleading you. Unless you have roots in the Pa Dutch communities 
or ancestors among those early squatters who stole Indian lands in Ohio, we 
are not related.

The things that interest me more than finding out where in Germany, Sweden, 
Wales, and Ireland, my family came from, are the events that happened over 
the years and were left off the documentation. There was a girl who was 
adopted into the family - she was "handicapped" and did not live to 
adulthood. She most probably was the illegitmate daughter of someone within 
the family. Then there is mention of a set of twins who lived at the family 
farm, and were said to be "odd". According to Mom, the twins went away and 
were never heard of again, with the thought that maybe the just hopped a 
train, and from her childish view, felt that everyone was glad they were 
gone. My sister has two autistic children, and the "odd" behaviors are 
similar to those of one of her boys. Was there autism in the family long 
before it came under modern scrutiny? These are the questions we have about 
our family history that cannot be answered by DNA tests, at least at 
present.

Anne
Anne Pemberton
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