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16-07-14, 14:09
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I did find out that my next door neighbour was a 2nd cousin of my friend who lives opposite us. Neither knew of each other and it was only through me doing both their trees that we made the connection. The connection was from Peckham in South East London and we are now in Surrey about 16 miles from there!
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16-07-14, 14:44
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Interesting reading. In my case, only one that I know of - Sarah (lozaras) on here, who is my fifth cousin once removed. I suspect I may be related to my ex-housemate's girlfriend (now wife), since the surname she shares with my great-grandmother is one which originates from a particular village - but since I don't really know her that well I've thought it better not to ask.
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16-07-14, 19:01
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As a third generation NZer the chances of running into anyone more remote than a third cousin must be pretty unlikely. I did work with someone who turned out to be a third cousin. In another role, one of my colleagues is married to my fifth cousin, we only worked that out as we share a very uncommon surname. I have not met her yet!
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16-07-14, 19:15
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We don't know whether the results would be the same if a similar study were to be carried out in the UK, NZ, or Australia. Or even if it were carried out in the US but looking at African-Americans.
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17-07-14, 01:33
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I have often thought I would find out that someone I know will turn out to be related to me ! So far I have only found that some distant cousins lived in the street where we lived - and we may well have lived there at the same time, but the Electoral Rolls only go up to 1980. Privacy laws make it difficult to find a current relative unless they are looking too, but so far no-one I know has found me.
I think there is probably a good chance that my husband and I share several strands of DNA - we both have family from around Wokingham in Berkshire, although there is so far no evidence that they ever intermarried, also from around Taunton in Somerset, Buxted in Sussex and around Glasgow in Scotland. The rest our ancestors came from nearly every other county in between and Ireland too.
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18-07-14, 16:14
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My elder daughter and her husband are half 7th cousins.
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18-07-14, 16:27
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OH and I are probably related way back as both his mother's paternal ancestors and my paternal grandmother's ancestors came from smallish neighbouring villages in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. I haven't found a definite connection yet though. Hard to find the correct ancestors when one is Evans & the other is Jones!
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21-07-14, 22:09
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The forebears of both my mother and of my friend who lives up the road have been in the village where we live since the 1830's. Our two extended families are connected as her widowed gt-gdmother married my gt-uncle. Whilst we are not related, we do have relatives in common (descendants of the marriage) who are shared acquaintances of both of us.
When our mothers were children and living in the village, they each had several schoolfriends who were also first or second cousins. Jay
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22-07-14, 01:26
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