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Is your family tree more like a jungle gym?

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That takes on real meaning if you have researched in Kentucky and Arkansas. There, the local joke is, “If I divorce my wife, is she still my cousin?” One of my Clinkenbeard branches had two sisters who married two brothers of a neighboring family. I have observed in my 30 years of doing amateur genealogy that no one really cares where their family came from until they hit 40 years old. Sort of a mid-life…

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  1. Ryan Buchanan
    January 20, 2022 at 11:26 am

    I like to make the joke, following —

    “I,
    am zero-point-six percent, Korean.”: very small

    implication being, that my tree is, well, you know. HAHH! X’/

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