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Today I had two very odd results when I tried to find the relationship between myself and a colonial American.
Lydia Cobb is one and Governor Robert Treat is the other, but it has to be a bug in Geni or some quirk in the tree.
What happens is that I end up a 20th granddaughter of a colonial American (e.g. Governor Treat and Lydia Cobb) and in between I see Jane Lathrop (Fuller) who is about my 9th great grandmother and who is either contemporaneous with the 20th great grand-ancestor or a century older. Now that's quirky!
I'll post an example relationship in a scond.
Mike Stangel replied in that thread:
"Hatte someone needs to get some DOBs on the Paine/Payne profiles. Everything looks good through William Payne, Sr. (b. 1502) -- after that point there are no dates and the Paynes obviously got tied up into the family of the American Revolutionary 200+ years later."
http://www.geni.com/path/Hatte+Blejer+is+related+to+Robert+Treat+Pa...
So Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Dec of Independence is the FOURTH great grandfather of a William Payne Sr (born 1503). The problem is therefore a couple of generations ABOVE Robert Treat Paine.