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1monster

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13. My paternal great-, great-, great-grandparents came to this country in 1852 and
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 01:13 PM
Apr 2014

had only one child. That child, however, had with his two wives 18 children, plus the two his second wife had with her first husband.

There used to be, when I was a child, (maybe still is) a huge annual gathering of the descendants of my great-great grandfather and there were literally hundreds of them-- and those would have been third cousins.

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