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<DIV>Genevieve,</DIV>
<DIV> I really appreciate your response to my concern about the
need for information to show that John Thompson, son of David, was the same John
Thompson of Weymouth and Mendon, MA from whom so many of us descend. While
we all <U>believe</U> this to be true, we are sadly lacking in evidence to back
it up. Even though we may never find any primary evidence to prove this
connection, we need to collect as much secondary evidence as possible to support
it.</DIV>
<DIV> You say that there is a handwritten Mendon document in the RI
Historical Society library that states that David was John's father. What
is the library citation for that document? What is the source for the
birth date and place for John, son of David in England? Where in
Weymouth records is the document that gives John's age -- a match for the date
in England? As things stand, it seems to me that we have only
circumstantial evidence that the two Johns are the same man and nothing to show
the sources for even the circumstantial evidence. Or am I missing
something? </DIV>
<DIV> I find many differences in the dates and places listed for John's
birth and marriage. Was it in England or in Massachusetts? Did he
marry "a Sarah" or Sarah Trevore? I wonder if each of us Tommies has
different data on our charts for John? And where did our data come
from? Has anyone on our list ever presented these facts to share with the
others?</DIV>
<DIV> I am trying to bring my genealogy research to some kind of close
because I have recently become legally blind and cannot see to read without a
magnifying glass and cannot travel to do research or read microfilm any longer.
This John Thompson problem is frustrating. I would appreciate hearing from
anyone who is willing to share his chart for John.</DIV>
<DIV> Betty Lou</DIV></BODY></HTML>