A EMAIL i RECEIVED FROM ARKANSAS: Was this FBI fellow talking about "sideways" relationships" ? instead of "vertical" ones? I remember that there used to be a parlor game where kids sat in a circle and one would whisper a "fact" to the one on his right and the "fact" would be repeated around the circle until the point of origin was reached .. then spoken aloud .... usually bearing little resemblance to the original "fact".... Sometimes our lists remind me of that game. So if he was talking about situations of 4th or 5th cousins ... i. e. lateral relationships in the same general generation, how much WOULD we be related?? Would that be why Franklin was able to marry Eleanor? Guess I will have to do some more net surfing and see what's out there on the subject. ron in CA Searching AR for Ramsey, Smith, Stone and a few more. PS: HELLO ! : )********************************************* Sandra's reply: Ron, we used to call that game you called "Fact", we called it "Gossip". We played it at our Church Youth Parties. We would sit in a circle and the first one would whisper to the one on his right a rumor, then the one on the right would pass the rumor on to the person on their right. By the time the rumor completed the full circle, is sounded nothing like the rumor that was started to the first person. It was a funny game. My grandmother married my grandpapa her second chousins. Their grandmothers were sisters which made us double related.. I am related to my sisters as sisters and fifth cousins. Of course in Washington County Alabama, back in the mide to late 1800s this was done all the time. My Baxter married Baxters simply because there wasn't enough single males and females around that could marry. Never the less they were related and they married. I think, we are related to our gr granmother's great grandparents and so on. But this is my opinion and I can not prove it. This is why I sent out my message to the List members.

Would like to know about your Ramseys. Mine came to Izard County from Bedford County, TN Thanks, Glenda Scalawag1867@aol.com wrote: > > A EMAIL i RECEIVED FROM ARKANSAS: Was this FBI fellow talking about > "sideways" relationships" ? instead of > "vertical" > ones? > > I remember that there used to be a parlor game where kids sat in a circle > and one would whisper a "fact" to the one on his right and the "fact" would