I have some catching up to do. Between moving and a diagnosis of SIBO, it’s proven to be a very busy 2017. Things have finally settled down and I can once again focus on genealogy.

The latest couple (#14) that has made its way onto my list of cousins of my mother’s who married cousins of my father’s did so rather easily. It almost felt like cheating. While working on my mother’s Joyce family line, I came across Mary Frances Shumate, my 2nd cousin, 2x removed, who married Arthur McNeill Hollingsworth, Jr. in 1945. Hello #14!

The Hollingsworth last name was a dead give away as I am a descendent of Valentine Hollingsworth, one of the first settlers of William Penn’s colony. All I had to do then was trace Arthur’s paternal lineage to determine how he was related to my father. He’s my father’s 7th cousin, 2x removed and 3x removed to me.

Okay, that was just a warm-up lap.

Kenfolk: Both sides
Relationship: Distant cousins
Common ancestors: Beaucoup