I became interested in genealogy around 1995, and what was most interesting to me, was the fact that there were so many real connections, links, some of which covered several decades even! You probably can come up with some of your own, if you start thinking about it.
A Doctor and his wife, Joe and Betty, retired and moved from Dallas to our small town. Everyone immediately loved them and we were happy to have them join our group of friends.
It turned out Joe had been my Daughter-in-Law’s pediatrician when she was a baby!
He was in the Navy during WW2, and was on the ship that retrieved George Ray Tweed from the Island of Guam! My uncle, by marriage!
We all went to New Mexico to hunt Antelope, on a ranch owned by Hugh and Naomi Holland. Joe and Naomi got to talking one evening and discovered that she had been a nurse to one of his associates, years before!
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Naomi mentioned that she had grown up in Pampa, Texas. My husband told her that he had relatives in Pampa. It turned out that one of his cousins was her best friend in High school! Another of his cousins owned an Appliance Store in Pampa. Though we did not know it at the time, when we visited his store, I had a cousin who was working for him……I did not learn of her existence until years later when I was well into genealogy!
There were so many of this sort of connections that I found and I was constantly amazed.
Was it Kevin Bacon who said we are all only 6 degrees removed from one another?
By the way............
My daughter is closer then 6 degrees removed from Kevin Bacon! How about that?
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