Traipsed around Manhattan all day today in the freezingly blustering weather.
- Saw Ground Zero and went shopping in the Gap in the World Financial Center building.
- Took numerous pictures in Trinity Church.
- Saw Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange.
- Rode the Staten Island Ferry and saw the Statue of Liberty.
- Watched a Steps on Broadway class taught by GELSEY KIRKLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Went to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and watched archival dance videos of Gelsey Kirkland (this one was planned but the last one was not).
- Am now physically and emotionally exhausted.
It was good.
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Sounds like a wonderful day!! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!!
Not pickled herring, but surprisingly close.
Double third cousins.
Ok recap from last time:
1st cousins - share grandparents
2nd cousins - share great-grandparents
3rd cousins - share great-great-grandparents
That's the third cousins part.
Double just means that we're related on that level in two ways.
In short, we have 4 great-great-grandparents in common instead of 2.
It's not as inbred as it sounds...if you care for the full explanation, keep reading.
In our case, one man married a woman (great, that seems fairly straightforward), and then his sister married his wife's brother.
So, say you marry Bob Smith and then Caleb marries Bob's sister. Then, your children and Caleb's children will be double first cousins because they are first cousins in two ways - through the
Becker side and through the Smith side.
That's how Brittany and I are related. Two of my great-grandparents are Ira Stucky and Irene Moser Stucky. Ira's sister and Irene's brother also married, and they are Brittany's great-grandparents. So, the parents of these collective great-grandparents, the Mosers and the Stuckys, are great-great-grandparents to both Brittany and me...we have 4 great grandparents in common instead of 2, like "single" third cousins.
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