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littlewonder -> RE: Genealogy and Homosexuaity (9/21/2009 8:30:49 PM)
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what seems to be parents who changed their last name in the middle of birthing a family of over 10 children
This is common with immigrants who could not read or write and spelled their names in whatever way sounded correct to them or whatever way someone else may have spelled their surname.
When my mother's family came here to America from Slovakia, they were all illiterate. The person who took their names at Ellis Island spelled their surname by the way he thought it sounded but in reality how it is pronounced and how it was spelled were completely and entirely different. Over time my mother's family has spelled their last name at least 5 different ways since 1900.
As for the homosexuality part, I don't think there is any indicator whatsoever unless you have diaries or journals or first hand accounts from others. Just because someone didn't have children or were never married doesn't really mean anything. There could be numerous reasons..death, disease, work, religion. The way someone physically stood in a picture won't really tell you anything either since there could be reasons also such as a malady, physical abnormality, the way the ground was shaped on which they stood, etc...
I've been doing genealogy work for over 20 years and can tell you that most information people come across about their families is unverifiable and usually very unreliable, so be very careful about which information you assume to be fact and which is fiction.
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