Re: To what degree of relationship?

On 8/14/05 12:02 AM, in article
Xns96B1EA54C9223makowiecatnycapdotrE@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Joe Makowiec"
<makowiec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2005 in soc.genealogy.britain, Alison Causton wrote:
>
>> Or, do you include whole branches of folks with whom you are not
>> directly related, i.e. "related" only by marriage?
>>
>> As an example of the latter, let's say that you are the family
>> history researcher for your Jones family line. Your second cousin
>> once removed is John Smith. John married Jane Doe. Would you
>> include anything more about Jane Doe's family than the names, birth
>> dates/places, and occupations of Jane's parents in your tree?
>
> Everyone's different. I'm not beneath a bit of pandering. Franklin
> Roosevelt is a distant relation of mine (6th cousin a couple of times
> removed), so he appears in my database. I also remembered from
> somewhere that Winston Churchill was a distant relative of FDR's, so if
> you were to examine my database, Churchill also appears, even though
> he's completely unrelated to me, my spouse, or, as far as I know,
> anybody in our families other than the rather tenuous link via FDR.
> (Actually, FDR and I have several connections, as, I believe, did FDR
> and Churchill.)
>
>> Alison Causton
>> Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
>
> Joe
> Who has relations in the Antigonish area of Nova Scotia

Thanks for your honest reply.

As for Antigonish, do you know how to pronounce it? ;-))

Alison

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