What is your wildest coincidence?

[Hollander]

Write that article! Fascinating story!

One day . . . 

[Biggles50]

When I was in my late teens and early twenties I kept being mistaken for another person, often resulting in the person initiating contact then saying “you are a dead ringer for George”.

BTW George is not his real name which is one that has not often been given to a boy child in the latter part of the 20thC.

Roll on to 2024 and I contact a person who I believe shares a significant amount of DNA with me.

We talk and I then find his Sister and as I approach her house she is at the door.

The resemblance between her and me is astounding.

Her DNA test reveals that she is my Half Sister.

George is therefore in fact my Half Brother and we do look very much alike so it is not surprising that I was often mistaken for him.

Yes his name is the one not often given and hence why I still remembered it 50 years later.

[coombs]

In the Family Records Centre in Clerkenwell in early 2004 I had a brief chat with a woman and I mentioned the surname Coombs, and she said she has a Coombes, with the "e". And she mentioned actress Pat Coombs, and I was thinking of Pat shortly before, when I looked up my gran's birth entry in the indexes and found her mothers maiden surname was Coombs.

I did love that old FRC.

By another sheer coincidence I met up in Norwich with some fellow genealogists from Genes Reunited, and a few months later I saw one of them at the FRC in London, 150 miles away.

[tillypeg]

I was just sorting through one of my family tree folders which hadn't seen the light of day for a couple of years and came across a photo taken in the Cornwall Record Office in Truro some years ago when I first began my research.  It was of a marriage register entry from 1849, before such things were digitised and put online.  Being of a curious nature, I turned the photo over and found that the photo had been printed on - 5.11.2005 - exactly 20 years ago today!

[brigidmac]

Love your story Biggles

I've got a doppelganger in Leicester apparently but don't think i.ll have a half sister

I like the word serendipity for coincidences

I have the same birthday as 1 of my great grandmother s exactly 100 years apart

& I.have a paternal cousin &.a paternal 3rdcousin/friend who both had birthdays TODAY
That should be easy to remember Remember

[coombs]

I have a Sussex landowner in the 1600s who descends from a Lincolnshire woman whose sister married into the Cornwell family of Wimbish in Essex, and I descend from that Cornwell family through another line.