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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 8:31 am
That is so neat that you were related GAL! And what a kind thing for you to do, many people want to learn about their ancestors but just don't have the resources or knowledge of how to look for them.
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Catfat
Member
02-27-2002
| Monday, April 12, 2010 - 7:42 pm
I did research and found I share ancestors with the George Bush family. Bleh.
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Spelll
Member
09-16-2005
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:48 pm
I need some help from someone. I have discovered and started chatting with my Grandfather's brother's great grandson. What would he be in relation to me?
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 6:06 pm
You and his parent would be 2nd cousins, so he is your 2nd cousin once removed I think.
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Spelll
Member
09-16-2005
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 4:50 am
Thank you. It sure can get confusing.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 7:13 am
Wow, I have learned a lot about who is my cousin here today. The generational thing confuses me. My oldest cousin is 39 years older than my younger sister. First grand child vs. last grand child. Still the same grandparents on my Dad's side. If I knew more, the age difference is probably bigger on my Mom's side. Still first cousins? So, my younger first cousin's son is my first cousin once removed? We are near the same age and always thought we were second cousins. Looks like we were wrong.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 7:32 am
That is correct, Mummy - your younger first cousin's son is your first cousin once removed.
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Aurora
Member
11-24-2006
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 11:19 am
From an email I got from Ancestry.com. Watch on Friday, April 23rd as Susan Sarandon solves the mystery of her missing grandmother and traces her roots all the way to Tuscany. Then tune in Friday, April 30th as Spike Lee digs deep into his slave roots and actually meets a cousin who descends from the slaveholder who once owned his family.
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Maplsyrp
Member
02-10-2009
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 11:36 am
I find it facinating how laid back they are with that many kids. Loved all the artwork and the ecletic furnishings.
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Maplsyrp
Member
02-10-2009
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 11:38 am
OOPS!!!!! Wrong thread!!!!!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Fun. Looking forward to a new episode.
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Doublethink
Member
08-23-2006
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 12:59 pm
Wow - I didn't know there were so many folks interested in genealogy on this site. I laughed at all the posts on cousins being called aunts etc. I had my own problems with cousins being called something other than cousin. When I first started doing family research, I wanted to study my paternal line. My father died when I was young, and my mother wasn't much help. I only had vague memories of people and names to start with. I won't go into to all the details but it involved a 1st cousin once removed. As a child, I always addressed this woman as Aunt Flossie, but I knew she wasn't my Aunt because my father only had brothers. I only knew her married name and not her maiden name - a common problem with researching women. I had enough vague information to find a record for a woman who turned out to be my Great Aunt Flora. I thought that this must be Aunt Flossie, but I was a bit befuddled because I didn't think Aunt Flossie should have been that old. Eventually, the light bulb finally went on and I was able to connect all the genealogy puzzles pieces, but those pieces were certainly all scrambled for a while. I still laugh at how confused I was. I told the story to my new-found cousins who understand all the complexities of my family, and they also laugh and can appreciate how confused I was. My Great Aunt Flora had married a Cameron. Great Aunt Flora's sister, "Aunt" Flossie's mother, had also married Cameron. Well you get the picture - too many Florences, too many Camerons and they all managed to move a lot, and they weren't all Aunts. And for more confusion there was a 3rd sister who also married a Cameron, and no they weren't brothers. I do have a lot of sisters marrying brothers in various family lines as well as cousins marrying cousins etc. I haven't seen anyone mention the site - http://pilot.familysearch.org. It's the LDS site, and some of you may choose not use their service because of their political views. But it's free - so I thought I'd throw it out there.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 2:24 pm
Hi Doublethink, I love the Familysearch site. I use it all the time. Yes, it can get very confusing. My ggrandmother had children many years apart. She had two marriages. As a consequence, I grew up playing with my mother's half first cousins who were my age.
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Doublethink
Member
08-23-2006
| Friday, April 23, 2010 - 11:10 am
Twiggy - I have huge families on my maternal side and very often there is about a generation gap between the oldest child and the youngest child. In my own family, similar to your situation, I have a first cousin who is only 4 years younger than my mother. Or said another way, my mother's niece is four years younger than her. I love doing family research, and find it absolutely fascinating. As someone posted - I think GAL - it's more than just seeing if you're connected to royalty or can claim that you're a Mayflower descendants etc., it's trying to do the research that will help recreate your ancestors daily lives.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 4:30 am
Great episode last night. I really felt for Sarandon's mother (and was glad they didn't show Sarandon filling her mother in on what Grandma had been up to all those years. It had to be devastating for her to realize that her mother really did just abandon her and move on to another life.)
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 8:05 am
It certainly was a fascinating ep. Glad I caught it. I really admire Sarandon.
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Spelll
Member
09-16-2005
| Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 11:00 am
Great show.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 11:51 am
Susan and I are same age. Her grandmother was born in 1907. My mother was born in 1907. Always have wished I had had younger parents. There sure was a generation gap for me.
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Aurora
Member
11-24-2006
| Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 12:49 pm
I'm three years older than Susan and my mother was born in 1900. My father in 1897. My mother was already an aunt when she was born, so I had cousins older than my mother. One of my remaining cousins has forgotten we're cousins and calls me her aunt now. It's kind of cute.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 6:23 am
I enjoyed Susan Sarandon's episode too. And hope her mother didnt take it too hard when she found out the real story. I can just imagine that if some celebrity has no story to go along with their family search, or its just plain boring, we wont be seeing it!
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Northstar
Member
09-29-2008
| Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 7:17 am
That's just it...if you go back far enough, you will find a skeleton(s) in the closets of every family. History proves we are oh so imperfect (despite what we want others to believe). I think it's great that Susan was able to place her renegade nature.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 8:50 am
Who knows why her grandmother never went back? I was just amazed at the resemblence of Susan to her grandmother. When Susan held up the photo from, "The Front Page", where she was dressed in the 1920's, she looked just like her grandmother!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 12:08 pm
That photo of her on stage and the drawing of her grandmother - wow!!
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 1:02 pm
Yes, Twiggy, that was amazing.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, April 30, 2010 - 4:36 pm
Final episode tonight - Spike Lee!!
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