It happened again.

[no_hypocrisy]

I found ANOTHER great grandmother who re-married and nobody told me.

I'm giving a free pass to the first GGM because she remarried in Russia in the late 19th century and her husband's existence seemed secretive.

But my mother's mother's mother re-married the year after I was born. She had a new last name. Do you understand how this has screwed me up with my research? (BTW, she was in her 80s and her new husband died two months after the wedding.)

[applegrove]

1. I have a great uncle wo married a woman "A". His sister married

a man we will call "B". At some point, I think after they were widowed, A married B. Try and fit that into a genealogy program.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I'm my own grandpa

[applegrove]

3. !!!

[dewsgirl]

4. That is great

[The Genealogist]

5. I see things like that sometimes

I have Amish ancestry, and most Amish people marry a cousin. They will normally remarry another cousin after the death of a spouse. I use ancestry.com, and it is a NIGHTMARE to work out all these relationships, as ancestry.com is not at all set up to handle these complex relationship patterns.

[applegrove]

6. I was using Family Tree Maker and I managed to fit it into the family tree. Never knew any

of them. Never heard the story before I did the family tree.

[The Genealogist]

7. You'll likely never hear all the stories that are out there

I've been interested in genealogy since I was 6, 38 years now since Grandma first showed me the family genealogy book and told me who the people in it were. Yet just last month I learned that one of my great grandfathers was apparently some kind of town drunk.

[applegrove]

8. I remember some of the stories I heard as a kid. But mostly I remember stories from when

I was a teen, young adult. And unfortunately the best story teller in our family had stopped telling stories by then. Real oral tradition. I could kick myself for not valueing them more or noticing that she went silent but I was a kid.