It's a Small World After All

This image is owned by NASA http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/My sister, Val, is a genealogist http://kithncousin.blogspot.com/ or for her complete website http://kithncousin.com/ . She has been corresponding with a gentleman from Germany who is also a genealogist and he recently e-mailed her that he would be in Canada this week on business and maybe he could call her. Remember that Canada is the second largest country in the world by area after Russia. When she asked him where he would be he told her that he was going to Fort McMurray Alberta and would be staying in Edmonton! Edmonton is where she lives! Her and I were able to meet him for coffee and they spent the evening chatting about the families from the area our German grandmother came from. He had a wealth of information on his laptop that he was willing to share with Val.

Val's blogspot has some interesting stories about how her family and her husband's family intersected half a world away 100-200 years before they ever met. It's all very fascinating and proves that it really is a small, small world.