As I've mentioned many times, I started working on my family tree and getting into Geneaology somewhere around 2013 or so - 10 years ago - wow!!
I have a friend, that I have known since I was about 12, she is like part of the family and really we consider her a sister and my parents always thought of her as another daughter.
She asked me to work on her family tree a bit and while I haven't spent a lot of time working on hers, I did make some headway.
Well, one day, while working on her tree, the name "Rebecca Schrader" popped up and and I thought...boy that name sounds familiar - I think I have someone on my tree with that name....so I checked and sure enough I did...not only that, it was the SAME Rebecca Schrader!!!
I just realized that my friend and I were actually related - somehow. I never really mapped out the trees to make the connection, but I have now done that. We are actually 6th cousins. How cool is that??
We have the same 5th Great Grandparents. She knows we are related but I haven't told her how yet and I haven't shown her the connection below. I'm going to laminate it and give it to her the next time I see her.
It just makes you wonder how many people you know that you might be related to. Well, I guess we are all related through Adam and Eve, but I can't trace back that far 😀
I know the image is small, you can click on it to enlarge a bit
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