-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 06-07-06  14:34 <=-   
      
    NB>> generations on all sides...    And big families, while not in every   
    NB>> case, have been quite common in all branches of my ancestry...  :)   
    DC>> Are they farming families?     
       
    NB> Only some of them were.  Those most recently were not.  Educators,   
    NB> scientists and/or business, pretty much.   
      
    DC> I guessed farming for the need of cheap labor!     
      
   That's where I thought you were coming from.  :)  That's only one reason   
   for large families... :)   
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
   ... Of course I'm on topic... Which echo is this anyway?   
      
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