Ah! See? Great example.

My House of Gordon line is through my father, and his father...but then through my grandfather's mother to my great great grandmother.

It just don't matter. I have 16 great great grandparents and one of them was Ellen Louise Gordon who married William Asbury Fletcher and came from Alleghany County, New York to Virginia City, Montana over the Bozeman Trail in the summer of 1866. Ellen, who went by Nellie, kept a diary and wrote many letters home. Many have been published and republished to show how life truely was back then. The lady had spunk and I'm proud to have 1/16 of her blood and dna in my body...that's about 15 pounds of Gordon courage if you're going by weight.

The Fletcher blood and the Gordon blood made that trip together. Ain't one better than the other because it flowed through a couple women before being passed on to my grandfather and my father and I.

Sorry...stepping of my soapbox now.

Ron