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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Family History Discovery
Two days ago I was unpacking boxes (yes, I still have lots of those left!) and discovered a folder full of Crane family history stories and pedigree charts that Nile's grandma gave us for Christmas. I started looking through it when a name caught my eye--Jeremiah Rappleye. One of my paternal great-grandmas is a Rappleye. Further investigation found me discovering that Jeremiah Rappleye is Nile's great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather and my great-great-great-great-great grandfather! So I'm married to my cousin--my VERY DISTANT cousin so I guess we didn't break any laws or anything. Hmm...that explains why our kids turned out so weird. Just kidding, kids. (For those of you who may have been wondering if I changed husbands, check the side bar for an explanation of our blogging nicknames. The kid's nicknames I am used to, but it is still weird to me to call my husband Niles. It sounds like I'm married to some stranger!)
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4 comments:
So you're 5th cousins once removed, right?
Oh no! You're cousins. That's kind of funny after what I wrote about whirlwind romances. At least it's distant enough.
That's wild! It has been fun catching up on all your blog entries! I enjoyed the Arizona blog--it was poetic. Isn't it nice that Heavenly Father knows best and guided you to Arizona and now here? Maybe you'll end up back there some day!
I don't know, Erick! I'll take your word for it. And Shellie, I bet tons of people are married to their distant cousin (well, technically we all are if you go back far enough.) We would all have to do our complete geneological lines and be very familiar with everyone on it to avoid marrying someone related to us 6-7 generations back or more.
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