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Made a Jaw Dropping Discovery While Doing Some Geneology Research On My Family

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December 18, 2017 at 9:17am
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The Hair on the back of my neck is still standing up over this.  I'm continually amazed by coincidences in life.  But this one blew me and my family away.

On my father's side, we are decended from 1 of 4 brothers who came over from Germany in 1751 and landed in Philadelphia.  Turns out that the oldest brother, from whom we are decended has the same first name as my youngest child.  But that's not the amazing part.  This ancestor got some land and built a farm between hagerstown and Funkstown Maryland.  Turns out, that farm was on a road in Maryland with the exact same name as the street I live on right now in Lakewood, Ohio; Robinwood.  I was reading a summary out loud to my oldest daughter when I got to that piece of information and we just stared at each other.

Its freaky how things in life can link together.

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