As a Canadian this week's prompt, VOTING, made zero sense.
Knowing the prompt was chosen last year in seems that voting in November in an expected thing.
3 years ago I was also confused about the November voting.
In seeking answers I decided to research in the typical way my age cohort does:
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| My question from 3 years ago |
My brother & his family kindly answered, and it mostly became clear. The Canadian & American voting systems really are different.
Knowing the Americans were voting, but Canadians were not I was left to ponder what exactly to write about.
I decided I would choose my own prompt this week.
In the days I pondered what/who I should write about my cohort's research arena came through again.
My husband's 6th cousin via his paternal line posted that he was 23 degrees from Barack Obama via their shared ancestry's line.
Really -- my husband & children are connected to Barack Obama.
How cools is that ponders me, but is it true?
As is usual with any good genealogy find there is some truth.
Barack Obama is in our forest, but not directly in our tree.
He is the 1st cousin 8x removed of the wife of my husband's 7th great-granduncle via his mother's paternal line.
Is that close enough to call ourselves family? Obviously!
Or maybe not
BUT wait - that connection is via his maternal line. His mother's father's line. The 6th cousin posted the connection via his father's paternal line.
Back to researching, and adding folks. As usual, I had to be cautious in not doubling up since the spouse I needed to connect the two lines was already in our tree.
After carefully connecting and back-checking the connection is clearly through my husband's mother's maternal line and his father's paternal line.
Does it make the connection closer when it is through both parental lines?
I think it does!!!
Since Ancestry only provides one line of connection the exact cousin connection would take a lot more time than I am willing to provide this week to identify for his father's paternal line.
Is our Bramble Bush connected to 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama? Yes!
Is he related to my husband and children? No!
Do they have shared relatives they are related to? Yes.
Is there shared blood? No!
That could change in the future, but for now....
Wikitree says that Barack Obama & my husband are 25 degrees of separation apart.
My husband and Barack Obama live side by side in this Bramble Bush.
When you find folks you admire connected to your tree!
This is why I search -
Cause ...
You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
Source:
25 degrees of separation to Barack Obama, Wikitree. Retrieved November 6th 2021 from https://www.wikitree.com/
Photo:
Bramble, Google Images, Open Source. Retrieved November 6th 2021.
Links:
Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/
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Fun read! Barack Obama is actually my direct distance cousin. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you 😊
DeleteNice to meet you 'almost' cousin