Fragments from a Writing Desk

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Oh thank heavens, oh thank heavens. I was worried because Billy & Franklin Graham are blood kin.

Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator is your first cousin four times removed's husband's grandfather's wife's second cousin thrice removed's wife's second great nephew.

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Martha Izora Parker
your mother

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Edgar Lugene Costner
her father

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John Andrew Jackson Costner
his father

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John Levi Costner
his father

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Susanna Costner
his mother

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Michael Rudisill
her brother

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Catharine Roberts
his daughter

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John Roberts
her husband

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Josiah Roberts Sr.
his father

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Morris Roberts, III
his father

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Elizabeth Roberts
his wife

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Jane Magdalene Robertson
her mother

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Katherine LeGrand
her mother

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Anna Martha Payne
her sister

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George Payne
her son

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Anne King
his daughter

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Charles Woodson Christian, Sr.
her son

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Nancy Matilda Maxwell
his daughter

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William Washington Maxwell
her son

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Sarah E Maxwell
his wife

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Mary E. J. Vaughn
her sister

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Lindsay Graham
her son

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Florence James Graham
his son

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Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator
his son

No blood relationship was found.

Crisp morning

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Ancestry and the "stories" it finds for you! Not hardly!

The HAVE WE GOT A STORY FOR YOU come-on from Ancestry.com tricks me now and then. Always, it is ridiculous, for it gives canned information about your grandma (on the order of "few houses in Mississippi had hot and cold running water in 1780"). The latest one has Grandpa John Levi Costner working hard in 1870, long after he was dead. The John Costner on the census is John Andrew Jackson Costner, my Great Grandfather (and Kevin's GG Grandfather).