Genealogy Chat

Hi Merry, Totally agree with your theory; it's a small world and once you research siblings then it does lead to living relatives. I found alot of my family are all from the same area where I grew up and as it's such a small town and am hoping to do further extensive research on all names. Already, I have found names that are very common in the town today and I am related to them I read in the Metro Newspaper that we are only 5 people removed from one another, Maybe one day, all of our trees will link up. Bev x

Just discovered that my grandpa's uncle and my grandma's uncle's mother-in-law's sister-in-law both ended up in the same workhouse at the same time. And before that, my grandpa's same uncle was living in the same boarding house as my grandma's uncle's father-in-law. I doubt whether any of them knew each other - the only real connection between them is the marriage between my grandparents, who were born after they died. And in another somewhat inbred branch of the family, a Sleath brother and sister married another Sleath brother and sister, who were their cousins. Another Sleath brother married Lilla Pool, whose sister married an Abraham Harrison. Abraham's father Abraham married another woman called Pool. And the Pool girls' mother used to live on the same farm as some of the Sleaths, so I wouldn't be surprised if she was related to them. Needless to say, GR can't cope with the double cousin marriage.

Just be careful meeting the distant rellies... My hubby and I met his distant cousin recently and discovered that the family resemblence the whole family have did not pass down from a particular line but another line. Very few in the family would even know the surname of the family that they resemble. Even scarier was that the cousins wife is a dead ringer for my aunt by marriage. If my aunt wasn't adopted I might have had to do her tree to find the connection there. Toni

I have and different angle on small world. Before i started doing this we thought my grandfather's family came from the village where he was born. I got married in a small church the RAF used in a small hamlet.Only because it was cheaper than the church near mum and dad. Bingo my grt grandfather was bapt and married in the same church and his father and mother . We never thought that anyone came from that side of the A46. Freaky

Steph, Keep on at this game and you should eventually find many distant rellies! Hubby and I are in regularly in contact with probably around 20 or so people who are this distantly related, and have had short contacts with many more. Once you have worked backwards on your tree, start looking at the siblings of your ancestors and work forwards in time with those.....hopefully this will lead you to some living relatives! It's certainly a really big element of our tree these days, and has been very fulfilling. We have relations all around the world. It also means you get to share the cost of researching your mutual ancestors too, if you are lucky!! Merry

Haha thats a great Story. I wish i was in contact with a fifth cousin in Canada! Stephanie.

Well, I dont know about small, but its certainly odd... A few days ago, someone posted a thread asking for info about Caudwells. Oooh, I thought, that was my ex-sister-in-law's maiden name, but as I havent had a peep out of her for 25 years, I passed the thread by. Today I was stalling out at a Flea Market. A woman stopped in front of me, with a vaguely familiar face. Hello, she said, its me... It was my ex sister-in-law! Olde Crone

LOL Kath!! Hubby is fifth cousin to her dad Son is sixth cousin to his daughter!! I didn't work it out - my tree program did! Merry

Great story.....but wouldn't she be your son's fifth cousin once removed? Kath. x

Hubby has a fifth cousin who lives in Canada. They have just been speaking on the phone. Cousin mentioned his daughter is in the UK working as a supply teacher in Dorset, where we live. Turns out last term she was teaching in the infants school where our children go.....!! So, our son, aged 6, was being taught some of the time by his sixth cousin!!! ''I remember Miss X'' says son......''she had a funny accent''!!!..... Small world! Merry xx....Ummmmm- TIP - Speak to your distant rellies regularly - you might discover something interesting BEFORE it has happened!!