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Topic: Here is a question for everyone
mitzs
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Here is a question for everyone
on: April 26, 2012, 15:01

I've come across some stuff lately, like, So & so is my 15th cousin 5 times removed. Now I understand trying to trace your tree as far back as it will go and in all the different direction a tree goes. I can understand if it was a grandparent 15 back because no matter what you are still a direct descendent, but cousins? That is my question. A Cousin line become so diluted with other bloodlines though time is there still a blood tie to your line? Would you still consider them kin?

What does everyone think?


Barbara Gallagher
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Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 26, 2012, 18:19

I do consider them relatives. If you are researching family lines tracing health conditions, it also helps to be aware of these more "distant" connections. It allowed me to trace a rare illness. Even cousins share a common ancestor with you, 15 generations back or not. Where it splits does not seem to matter to me. Its all good!


Jen Baldwin
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Jen Baldwin
Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 26, 2012, 22:32

I still consider them family, but they are very low priority unless I am looking for something specific. Often, I find them in the same area I am researching for someone more direct to me, and they just end up being "collateral" finds.


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TheHeritageTourist
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Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 26, 2012, 23:29

That is a bit far back, but here is how I could get there. I have always worked at identifying descendants of any of my ancestors. Frankly, I've spent more time on descendants than on going further back. When the further back appears, in my research, I welcome it. However, when I identify each ancestor couple, I want to identify and record all their possible descendants. That is just me. and my approach.


Terri O'Connell
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Terri O'Connell
Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 27, 2012, 10:32

Kin is kin and you cannot change that. I just received my DNA

results back from ancestry and what they state is to keep in mind

that this can go back 100's of years. So no matter how diluted

they become, the blood is still there.


Also, like Dr. Bill, I like to add the children to my trees as well.


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mitzs
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Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 27, 2012, 13:52

I love to add everyone to my tree too and I do. To me though 15 cousins back 5 x removes. I am thinking the first time I feel down and scrapped my knees as a baby that connection leaked out there & then. :) Actually this all came about with a request to search a Davy Crockett connection for a client. While I think I have found it. I am afriad it is though a second cousin of Crockett's who married into the family. While they have 3rd & 4th cousins who can claim a tie to the man, their line can not.


Terri O'Connell
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Terri O'Connell
Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 28, 2012, 22:47

The truth is the truth and we have to give them what is in the

papers. No matter what it states, I had to take a Mayflower line

off of my tree and I was not happy to do it. But, I knew it was

the right thing. related through marriage is still related, just

cannot claim the blood.


Terri O’Connell is the owner of Cruise Planners – O’Connell Cruise and Travel, a full service travel company. Their mission is to encompass the full family: vacations, reunions, and history travel. Terri is a travel enthusiast with a passion for genealogy and enjoys bringing the two together to assist her clients in their travel needs.

You can find Terri online at www.facebook.com/cruiseplannersoconnell, www.facebook.com/tracingmyfamily or you can find her at www.findingourancestors.net for all things genealogy.

Eowyn
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Eowyn
Re: Here is a question for everyone
on: April 29, 2012, 17:52

Every person I find feels like family to me so I enjoy even the cousins who are far off the beaten path. Someone once shared their vision of genealogy with me and I've taken it to heart since then. She said we tend to think of ourselves as one link in a chain that goes back generation after generation and forward in the same way. She preferred to envision that we are all one link in a piece of chain mail, each link making us stronger and stronger.


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