Finding Cousins
When doing Genealogy, you often run across folks who reach out to you because they have a DNA match, because of a shared family name, or there is an ancestral town in common. When this new "cousin" reaches out to me, I enjoy trying to find a shared ancestor and/or help them along their research journey. I welcome the opportunity to explore a branch of my family that has laid dormant for a few months or years. Some of my latest research has been the following: - A "cousin" in Florida found that he had an ancestor married in to my OKS family from Lutzk and Kremenets Ukraine ... but we also had a DBA match. So we tried to explore how maybe those married ancestors might also have had shared ancestors. - A "cousin" in New York has a DNA match, but the only surname that matched was KHAZAN, however our DNA matched on my fathers side of the family and KHAZAN is on my mother's side. We also found that he had some BASS relatives on his family tree, so t...