Relatives everywhere

Amazing connections!

Husband's granddaughter #2 has a Great Little Friend and they go to each others parties, but didn't know they were related. Why should they? It's only because GD#2's father is becoming rather well known that someone made the connection and asked about the surname. GLF is the granddaughter of husband's cousin, making GLF and GD#2 third cousins.

GLF is delighted to find she is related to GD#2. And her grandmother remembers GD#2 well as she has been to GLF's parties and vice versa.

I've never met husband's cousin - I don't think they've seen each other for years, so their children's children meeting like this is extra amazing.

Distant relative

I note this Fulbright prize winner because her uncle (sort of) is my uncle (sort of). It's pretty good anyhow that she's a professor of English and poetry, let alone win such a prestigious prize. Our mutual uncle points out that our family came from Ireland at the time of the great hunger, through the Liverpool court slums where twenty to thirty families shared a yard with one pump and one toilet. In 1866 our great great grandparents, Charles and Mary, were too illiterate to sign their names on their wedding certificate.

Four generations later, life has improved for us.