Number 11 on my list of my mother’s cousins who’ve married my father’s cousins is unique in that my mother made this connection long before I became interested in genealogy. I am currently working my way through the Clark side of the family and realized I had not yet put this pair on the list.

If memory serves, mom had phoned Carol Jane Barnard, my 2nd cousin, 1x removed, while researching her Clark ancestors and realized her husband’s name – Milton K. Burford – sounded familiar. She’d come across him on an online genealogy forum while researching my Trantham ancestors. Luckily for her, he was one and the same and Carol handed the phone to Milton once they solved the Clark connection. A descendant of Martin Trantham by his second wife Rachel, Milton is my 5th cousin, 1x removed.

Listo presto:

1. Florence Schwartz (2nd cousin, 2x removed) married Edna Duesenberg (1st cousin, 2x removed)
2. Irene Rohlfing (3rd cousin,1x removed) married Herbert Biesemeyer (1st cousin, 2x removed)
3. Dwayne Kersten (2nd cousin, 1x removed) married Celeste Sprick (3rd cousin, 1x removed)
4. Patricia Kersten (2nd cousin, 1x removed) married Glenn Bolm (4th cousin)
5. Brenda Schroeder (3rd cousin) married Shane Bunge (4th cousin)
6. Nathan Chamness (2nd cousin, 5x removed) married Mary McCracken (2nd cousin, 6x removed and 2nd cousin, 5x removed)
7. Joseph Chamness (1st cousin, 6x removed) and Ruth McCracken (1st cousin, 7x removed)
8. Martha Pearl Vestal (1st cousin, 6x removed) and Robert McCracken (1st cousin, 7x removed)
9. Frederick Wilhelm Beckmann (1st cousin, 3x removed) and Caroline Charlotte Johanne Biesemeyer (2nd cousin, 3x removed)
10. Lillie Belle Joyce (5th cousin, 2x removed) and Lemmie Vance Rhodes (7th cousin, 1x removed)
11. Carol Jane Barnard (2nd cousin, 1x removed) and Milton K Burford (5th cousin, 1x removed)

Kenfolk: Both sides
Relations: Most certainly
Common ancestors: Beaucoup