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Subject: Re: [ARKANSAS] Related to our ancestors?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:12:22 EST


A EMAIL i RECEIVED FROM ARKANSAS: Was this FBI fellow talking about
"sideways" relationships" ? instead of
"vertical"
ones?

I remember that there used to be a parlor game where kids sat in a circle
and one would whisper a "fact" to the one on his right and the "fact" would
be
repeated around the circle until the point of origin was reached .. then
spoken
aloud .... usually bearing little resemblance to the original "fact"....
Sometimes our lists remind me of that game.

So if he was talking about situations of 4th or 5th cousins ... i. e.
lateral relationships
in the same general generation, how much WOULD we be related?? Would that
be
why Franklin was able to marry Eleanor?

Guess I will have to do some more net surfing and see what's out there on the

subject.
ron in CA

Searching AR for Ramsey, Smith, Stone and a few more.
PS: HELLO ! : )*********************************************

Sandra's reply:
Ron, we used to call that game you called "Fact", we called it "Gossip". We
played it at our Church Youth Parties. We would sit in a circle and the first
one would whisper to the one on his right a rumor, then the one on the right
would pass the rumor on to the person on their right.
By the time the rumor completed the full circle, is sounded nothing like the
rumor that was started to the first person. It was a funny game.

My grandmother married my grandpapa her second chousins. Their grandmothers
were sisters which made us double related.. I am related to my sisters as
sisters and fifth cousins. Of course in Washington County Alabama, back in the
mide to late 1800s this was done all the time. My Baxter married Baxters simply
because there wasn't enough single males and females around that could marry.
Never the less they were related and they married.

I think, we are related to our gr granmother's great grandparents and so on.
But this is my opinion and I can not prove it. This is why I sent out my
message to the List members.


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