Yesterday was a fun day researching as I found more connections between my branches and also connections between my husband's Pennsylvania family and mine. No, we are not cousins...yet.
I spent some time this summer connecting the dots on my Luxembourg family thanks to a distant cousin. He posted just enough information about my great-great grandmother for me to realize that she is his great-great grandfather's little sister. One branch of his family ended up in Kansas in the same county as my great-great-grandmother. I wondered if they knew they were all related after a generation or two. (This wondering stems from going to school with distant cousins and finding out after high school that we are related. In fact, three of us in one class are in three different generations of the same family.) I contacted the source of the family information. I think he was as excited to hear from me as I was him. As we asked questions and gained more information he realized he had heard my family name before. He has pictures of some of my family from generations past. That answers my questions about whether or not they knew they were related. As time passed after the family settled in the area, that knowledge was lost. It's been fun to bring the family back together.
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