Has anyone ever found out they are related to their best friend? Etc.

[coombs]

I helped a late colleague born 1944 do his family tree. We both descend from 2 men called Peter Archer in Suffolk in the 1700s. However no connection between the 2 has yet been established. 

If it was 2 men called Cornelius Bracegirdle-Arbuthnot, then the connection would be easier to pin down.

[dragonfly13]

Once I did my dna in March this year and started putting together my family tree, I made a rather shocking discovery.  My late 2nd husband was the father of my only child.  I found that he’d been my fifth cousin once removed.  This makes my son my sixth cousin.  I suppose if I ever get truly annoyed with my son, I can refer to him as a “distant relation”. 

[Josephine]

Once I did my dna in March this year and started putting together my family tree, I made a rather shocking discovery.  My late 2nd husband was the father of my only child.  I found that he’d been my fifth cousin once removed.  This makes my son my sixth cousin.  I suppose if I ever get truly annoyed with my son, I can refer to him as a “distant relation”. 

LOL, that's too cute. 

[Simon62]

I've a DNA match with the mum and therefore daughter wife of a friend I grew up with locally and know well. The mum contributes to ancestry magazine/blog articles notebly Hewitson's Diaries in Preston, Lancs. Met up for a coffee and shared our thoughts. I felt like an amatuer newcomer to all this, she's been on the ancestry trail since 1960s. The connection is likely Westmorland or Yorkshire.

Simon

[andrewalston]

The mum contributes to ancestry magazine/blog articles notebly Hewitson's Diaries in Preston, Lancs. Simon

Ah, Atticus!

I first came across him in an 1871 newspaper article about Mawdesley, where he mentioned my ancestors, the basket-making Benthams.

When my great grandparents Alice Bentham and James Rigby married in 1904, I'm certain that they were unaware of being fifth cousins!

[Simon62]

Ah, Atticus!

I first came across him in an 1871 newspaper article about Mawdesley, where he mentioned my ancestors, the basket-making Benthams.

When my great grandparents Alice Bentham and James Rigby married in 1904, I'm certain that they were unaware of being fifth cousins!

Just clicked that Atticus was his nom de plume. A controversial character on The Herald and Chronicle.

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