Hi Joan, all, Jfloe@aol.com writes: > I loved Cullivan's remark - aren't we all related on this list! I think we > are, we all have zillions of cousins, we all have Sullivans, > Harringtons and many more names among our ancestors. Yes, I think you're right. My grandmother said more than once that when she was growing up (in Derrymihin West in the 1890s) the only people she ever met who weren't related to her in some way were the British sailors and their families. -- Bill

.................and didn't we marry some of them? Leesa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gawne" <gawne@cesmail.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [BEARA] ...all related on this list! > Hi Joan, all, > > Jfloe@aol.com writes: > >> I loved Cullivan's remark - aren't we all related on this list! I think >> we >> are, we all have zillions of cousins, we all have Sullivans, >> Harringtons and many more names among our ancestors. > > Yes, I think you're right. My grandmother said more than once that > when she was growing up (in Derrymihin West in the 1890s) the only > people she ever met who weren't related to her in some way were the > British sailors and their families. > > -- Bill > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello Leesa, all, carrignua <carrignua@comcast.net> writes: > .................and didn't we marry some of them? > Leesa Why yes, yes we (or at least our ancestors) did. Most of them were pretty careful about keeping things outside the 3rd degree of kindred, but an awful lot of 2nd and 3rd cousins found marital bliss. -- Bill

As children we used to say that it only took my mother 20 minutes with someone of Irish origin in Fall River, MA to find out she was related to them. Jim McCarthy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gawne" <gawne@cesmail.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] ...all related on this list! > Hi Joan, all, > > Jfloe@aol.com writes: > >> I loved Cullivan's remark - aren't we all related on this list! I think >> we >> are, we all have zillions of cousins, we all have Sullivans, >> Harringtons and many more names among our ancestors. > > Yes, I think you're right. My grandmother said more than once that > when she was growing up (in Derrymihin West in the 1890s) the only > people she ever met who weren't related to her in some way were the > British sailors and their families. > > -- Bill > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message