After about my 7th draft of that post I kind of dropped the ball on that question. But thanks for noticing. :)
It turns out that, yes, we have a common ancestor (b. 1673) so we are technically cousins, but pretty distant; she’s my 9th cousin once removed, I’m her 8th cousin once removed. My generations are compressed as my mother was born when her mother was 20, then I was born when my mother was twenty. So my maternal grandmother was just 40 when I came along.
I thought the clustering tool was very useful. I was pleased MyHeritage adopted it. I certainly hope ancestry gives credit to EJ Blom. I look forward to it being rolled out.
Anne, thanks for reading! Now that I’ve finally posted that post on Ella Latimer, I can tell you that right up until the last draft, I had a screenshot of my reply to your nice comment from February 3rd stating words to the effect that I’d finish it either later that day or the next. That teaches me a lesson about forecasting when, at best, “next day” comes and goes 35 times before I complete the task. Thanks for hanging in there!
But did you marry your cousin?
After about my 7th draft of that post I kind of dropped the ball on that question. But thanks for noticing. :)
It turns out that, yes, we have a common ancestor (b. 1673) so we are technically cousins, but pretty distant; she’s my 9th cousin once removed, I’m her 8th cousin once removed. My generations are compressed as my mother was born when her mother was 20, then I was born when my mother was twenty. So my maternal grandmother was just 40 when I came along.
I thought the clustering tool was very useful. I was pleased MyHeritage adopted it. I certainly hope ancestry gives credit to EJ Blom. I look forward to it being rolled out.
Anne, thanks for reading! Now that I’ve finally posted that post on Ella Latimer, I can tell you that right up until the last draft, I had a screenshot of my reply to your nice comment from February 3rd stating words to the effect that I’d finish it either later that day or the next. That teaches me a lesson about forecasting when, at best, “next day” comes and goes 35 times before I complete the task. Thanks for hanging in there!