Family connections

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I will have to shorten this story quite a bit! - I originate from Hertfordshire and moved to Norfolk 14 years' ago. Some time ago I was investigating my family tree and friended my mother's 2nd cousin on facebook. A little while ago I noticed a picture of him in my local pub, when I asked him what he was doing there he told me he lived down the road (in the village my son went to school) - quite a coincidence being as this side of my family were from West Susses. I then started talking to his daughter and it turned out she worked in a school directly with one of my friends, she then moved school and coincidentally moved to a school (in the next county) that my boyfriend's children go to and I am seriously considering moving my son to. When talking to my mother, I asked her if I had told her that my 3rd cousin on her side of the family was a teacher where Charlie was likely to be going to school. She said I had and wondered if a lady she used to work with in the 60's who married a distant relation of hers, and she knew was in Norfolk, might be related. I asked and it turns out that this lady is my 3rd cousin's mother, she had married my mother's 2nd cousin who I had been in contact all those years ago on genes reunited. I have lost track of how many coincidences are in that story, but there are a lot!
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Date submitted:Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:16:51 +0000Coincidence ID:7915