This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRB.2ACE/890.2.2 Message Board Post: I'm from the Abrams line (my grandmother was an Abrams) and my husband's mother is a VanWickler. We never knew each othe until 1989 when he was visiting his brother in CA (he was stationed in Texas) and I was living in CA. We happened to start talking at the OC fair, had a long distance romance, got married. Then after we were married I started doing more extensive research on our family trees. It was just a few years ago I found out our Abrams and VanWickler lines have been marrying since about the late 1800's. (and some of the stories made the pages of the local papers of the time. Brooklyn Eagle for one.) We've had a few laughs over them.