Hello, I just checked on-line, and this "song" and original newspaper article goes back to the early 1800's !! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_My_Own_Grandpa I don't know if I'm my own Grandma ! But, just on my KIDDER / WILKINS ancestors marrying in Aroostook Co., ME, ~1834, I still don't know the maiden name of Mary's mother, Electra. And, when "Joe" KIDDER came back from the Civil War, seriously injured, he decided to marry his first-cousin, "Clara" WILKINS. So, I am descended from Samuel WILKINS and Electra (unknown) twice. Their son, "Sanford," came down to MA and married a MA woman. Their youngest son, Clinton, married Evelyn. Clinton was my father's uncle, and Evelyn was my mother's sister. So, Evelyn, by marriage, became an aunt to my father, but she was already his sister-in-law. And, Clinton was already, by marriage, my mother's uncle, but he became her brother-in-law. And, Clinton and Evelyn's child was a first-cousin to my father, and a first-cousin to - me ! And, on my mother's side, no one can prove it; but Robert KERR and Elizabeth HENDERSON, born in Canada in 1827, were said to have been first-cousins. (This family-group in the Prov. of Quebec is a major concrete-block wall for maybe 100 researchers. We know the names of the people who arrived in Canada in 1823; we can't find their births back in Ireland.) And, since the parents inter-married all over the place, we don't know if there were first-cousins before them. And, it was their great-granddaughter, Evelyn, who married the above, Clinton. And, Evelyn's mother was the (probable) twice-orphaned grandmother I've written about many times. I have an "educated guess" the birth-mother was a woman, named Clara, but "who" got her pregnant in the summer of 1888?* Just a few of the stories from my family-tree. Oh, maybe I can mention that this set of grandparents had their first-child become a 6'6" man and their 2nd child become a 5'11" woman. Explain that. :o) Betty (near Lowell, MA) * In case I've forgotten to mention it, we have more clues in my grandmother's story. A researcher in CT and I believe we are distant cousins; we believe we are both descended from a woman, named Rhoda, in Westport, MA (1800-1883). My "cousin" just received a package of old photos in the mail. One picture is of Rhoda. Another picture is of her 4th child, Mary CLARK, who grew up to become the Adoptive mother of my grandmother. We compared that picture to my grandmother's picture, and there is a strong family resemblance. I have written to an older lady in CT and asked if she would do me a favor and send me a picture of her great-grandmother, Clara. I believe Clara to be the birth-mother; she was Mary's daughter. I wrote to other great-grandchildren of Clara 2 years ago and they chose not to respond. (The archives of the MA and CT Lists will offer more information on this story.)