Jim Du(e)senberg was my father’s 1st cousin. He and my father and my father’s sisters attended the same high school in North Kansas City, Missouri. The picture below is from their 1959 yearbook. Jim, pictured in the lower right-hand corner, was a junior. I’m sure to get emails about this (as I most assuredly will screw this up) but I believe my father was a year behind Jim and my aunt Marilyn a year ahead of him.

None of that really matters though because this post isn’t about them. Pictured five rows above Jim in the top row is my mother’s 3rd cousin, Bruce Dalman.

Bruce’s two brothers, Eugene and Charles, also attended North Kansas City High School. To my knowledge, I am not related to anyone else in the photo that I know of but I am just getting started.

Kenfolk: Utlauts
Relation: 3rd cousin, 1x removed 
Common ancestors: Bruce’s 2nd great grandparents, Martin and Sarah (Roberts) Joyce, are my 3rd great grandparents