Just when you thought you’d identified all of your cousins who married your cousins, up pops couple number 15. It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this topic. In summary, I have found 15 of my mother’s distant cousins who married 15 of my father’s distant cousins.

I have to give Ancestry’s ThruLines credit for this latest find. Based on shared DNA matches, Ancestry predicted that a few of Johann Fahrmeier’s descendants who share DNA with my father were related to him through Johann’s mother, Sophia Biesemeyer. My father’s maternal grandmother was a Biesemeyer. As I started piecing together the Fahrmeier branch of the tree, I realized that Johann’s granddaughter, Fredericka Lenger, was already in my tree as the spouse of Frederick Engelkemeyer, who is related to my mother.

Thus, welcome Fredericka Lenger, my father’s 3rd cousin, 2x removed, who, in November of 1901, married Frederick Engelkemeyer, my mother’s 1st cousin, 2x removed.

Kenfolk: Both sides
Relations: Many, many, many….
Common ancestors: Yup