[Wallace T.]

Similarities in names are not in themselves proof of a common ancestral origin. In the United States, we have Danbury, Connecticut, Danville, Virginia, Danboro, Pennsylvania, Danvers, Massachusetts, and Dansville, New York. Do those names indicate that the Ten Lost Tribes settled our Eastern Seaboard?

Name patterns only support a theory when backed up by other evidence. That Eastern New England place names have a high number of names in common with East Anglia, or the Shenandoah Valley with Northern Ireland, is significant only when we weigh other evidence, such as ship's logs, folk practices, family Bibles, etc., that indicate that the early settlers of New England mostly came from East Anglia and that a large number of the settlers of the Shenandoah Valley came from Northern Ireland.

[blam]

"Similarities in names are not in themselves proof of a common ancestral origin. In the United States, we have Danbury, Connecticut, Danville, Virginia, Danboro, Pennsylvania, Danvers, Massachusetts, and Dansville, New York. Do those names indicate that the Ten Lost Tribes settled our Eastern Seaboard? "

Everything that we are came from somewhere, huh? Dan's name is really getting around. Someone brought all those 'Dan's' with them from somewhere, huh?