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From: Cheryl Adams <>
Subject: Re: Dodson/Dotson
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:17:20 -0500


montrose wrote:

> Hi Terry,
>
> I tend to believe in what a small world it was back then, so maybe some
> > of the Dotsons made it to Dickson where they knew they already had
> > relatives. What do you think?
> >
> I don't have a doubt it was a small world. My Stone and Hardeman
> ancestors came from Pittsylvania County, VA, and they are intermarried
> with a lot of the "old" Dickson County families (see my sur-name list
> which should post today). I also find other lines in other counties
> that knew or were related coming from VA, NC, SC and landing at the same
> time in the same Tennessee county. Even though the world is a lot
> bigger today, it really isn't. the internet is changing it again. I
> have run across more distant cousins in the past year than I had in 50
> years before. And funny thing, they are all nice and cooperative
> generally. And the number of "shirt-tail cousins" (those who are
> related to the same relative but on opposite sides) is unbelieveable.
> And if genealogy hadn't been a passion I would never have known how
> small the world really is.
>
> Walker K. McCulloch
> Clarksville, IN
> >
> >

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