Distant Relatives
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I live in Canada and while visiting Australia in the 1970's met and became fast friends with Joy & Keith
O'Malley, their daughter's Elizabeth and Katherine..Katherine was married to Richard....
Over the years we have visited back and forth - Around 1995 while researching my Scottish GRAY
ancestors a ladie's name VEDA from Australia popped out at me, recalling that I had heard that strange name mentioned in the O'Malley family I continued my search to discover that Katherine's mother-in-law Veda was one and the same - imagine my surprise that after all those years of knowing Richard to find that he & I shared the same ancestors in Scotland and if I hadn't been doing my family tree to this day I would never of been the wiser that he and I were distant rellies.....
Date submitted:Sat, 19 May 2012 18:26:44 +0000Coincidence ID:6366
