Today's adventure started out with an obituary. Nothing unusual so far. As I entered locations of the children I realized the one daughter (my distant cousin) was listed without a husband. I knew she was married at one point so either they were divorced or he passed away. I googled him and found his obituary.
As I have pointed out before, I list parents and sometimes siblings from obituaries as I seem to be related to over half of the people in the county. I double checked his siblings against my database. There's a possible match. Richard H.
I check more details. It is a match. But why is Richard H. and his wife listed in my database? He has no parents listed, no children listed. I click on his wife. OMG. His wife is my 5th cousin.
Maybe I'm related to two-thirds of the county!
(The other brother, Ronald, is not in the database...yet!)
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