small world
Jun. 12th, 2011 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioOur neighborhood had a block party today. (Not all of Squirrel Hill, just a six-block-long stretch on our street plus nearby blocks of side streets.) I'm glad somebody organized this (and a mailing list); we've lived here for over ten years and I still don't know very many of the neighbors, but knocking on doors just to say "hi I'm Monica; who are you?" feels weird.
We were all wearing name tags (name + address), and as a result I met a cousin I didn't know existed. I thought my parents and their descendants were the only members of our family in Pittsburgh, but I was wrong. The person I met, Linda, is the granddaughter of the brother of my great-grandfather. (She doesn't seem to be as old as my parents, but until recently the generations in our family had lots of kids with some spread, so that's not surprising.)
I learned that her mother had visited Bugnara, the small town in Italy that her grandfather and mine are both from, many years ago. She met some relatives then but everybody Linda or her mother would have known there is dead now. A little closer to home, it turns out that after my grandfather died, my grandmother bought Linda's mother's house -- she told me the address and yes, it is the house we went to visit my grandmother in when I was growing up. So if I'm understanding this correctly, we regularly visited the house Linda grew up in.
Linda does not actually live in our neighborhood (though she does live in Pittsburgh); she was there with somebody who does. I'm going to email her the link to the genealogy page that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Small world.
We were all wearing name tags (name + address), and as a result I met a cousin I didn't know existed. I thought my parents and their descendants were the only members of our family in Pittsburgh, but I was wrong. The person I met, Linda, is the granddaughter of the brother of my great-grandfather. (She doesn't seem to be as old as my parents, but until recently the generations in our family had lots of kids with some spread, so that's not surprising.)
I learned that her mother had visited Bugnara, the small town in Italy that her grandfather and mine are both from, many years ago. She met some relatives then but everybody Linda or her mother would have known there is dead now. A little closer to home, it turns out that after my grandfather died, my grandmother bought Linda's mother's house -- she told me the address and yes, it is the house we went to visit my grandmother in when I was growing up. So if I'm understanding this correctly, we regularly visited the house Linda grew up in.
Linda does not actually live in our neighborhood (though she does live in Pittsburgh); she was there with somebody who does. I'm going to email her the link to the genealogy page that
tc_tick maintains.Small world.
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Date: 2011-06-13 12:51 pm (UTC)Common Ancestors
Monica's Great Grandfather and Linda's Grandfather are brothers.
Monica's Grand-Parent and Linda's Parent are 1st cousins.
Monica's Parent and Linda are 2nd cousins.
So Monica is Linda's 2nd cousin once removed.
If Linda had children, they would be Monica's 3rd cousins.
I'm also recently getting into Genealogy so it's possible my calculation is off, but this is my understanding of it. Interestingly enough, my second cousin once removed is also a Linda. :)