Growing up I always thought I had a very small family. Each of my parents has one sibling, each aunt/uncle had two children. I figured big crazy weekend-long family reunion picnics with people you've hardly met before were out of the question. (I love my cousins but I always was jealous of the people who had dozens of them, instead of my 4.)
Today I got a message through geni.com that my grandfather's uncle appears in someone else's family tree. I was contacted by my great grand uncle's granddaughter! Since he changed his name to sound more "American" and died before she was born, she was sure she'd never find the rest of his family. But my grandmother remembered the name change because she thought it was funny that someone would change their name in such a way as to create a rhyme, and told me about it when I was making this family tree. Now I have dozens of relatives I never knew!
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