I mean I'm in touch with actual living fourth cousins, so it doesn't seem weird to me. She's just those people plus a time shunt.

Laughter emoji might have been here...

Seems he was getting his wife to do all that. As someone with experience of being ghosted and disinherited by a narcissist male successful in his field, I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of plausible NPD.

Wholly agree

Two Nobel Prize winning writers in the same ancestry mix as two witches

Also the calumny on people with autism, many good kind people, by excusing his haughty, chilly behaviour so

Very much this

Currently at lunch in Somers Town trying to remember what Mary Rose Barrington said to me about the poltergeist she investigated here. A boy. Council Estate. Spontaneous Cases.

Ouch and ouch and ouch

Using AncestrydotCom but it's very buggy and not very good, so doing some work on other online sources. Using the top dollar Ancestry account which I can't maintain for long. It's irritatingly Amerocentric too. I don't give a fig about Confederate Generals, Alamo heroes and Boston innkeepers

Parish records don't exist much past 1500s unless you have aristocratic or gentry conn, but even then. Spellings don't help but often recreate the local accent of the time, which I love

I'm back to 1500s on most lines. It's much easier than it was to do.

I'm trying to solve a familial secret or mystery, the identity of my great grandfather who got my great grandmother pregnant when she was only 17. We reckon it was her 60 year old employer. She was his housemaid. Was hoping DNA would sort it out but it hasn't.

Yikes

If you spend enough time on it you'll always find a couple of interesting people, it just really takes alot of time. I've been building a family tree every day since August and I only just found him yesterday

Once you go back 16 generations everyone is in the mix, but what a remarkable relative to have