{"id":30907,"date":"2018-04-30T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=30907"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:25:05","slug":"genealogy-test-are-we-all-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-test-are-we-all-related.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Test: Are We All Related?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have this theory that pretty much all early, northern New Englanders are related.<br \/>\nIt sure seems that way.<\/p>\n<p>Today I decided to test that idea.<br \/>\nI did a search in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> for anyone \u201cborn in Lewiston\u201d (Maine).<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewistonmaine.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewiston<\/a> is a small town and many of my ancestors and relatives were from there, I wanted to see if I was actually related to any random person I found who was from there.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Here is Wallace Cyr\u2019s obituary \u2013 he was born and died in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewiston,_Maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewiston, Maine<\/a> \u2013 in 1914 and 1959 respectively.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30911\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A14728889532D3B69%40GB3NEWS-1646772D15B73D7C%402436642-1645752698B892DE%4017-1645752698B892DE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/providence-journal-newspaper-0314-1959-wallace-cyr-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Wallace Cyr, Providence Journal newspaper article 14 March 1959\" width=\"311\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/providence-journal-newspaper-0314-1959-wallace-cyr-obituary.png 311w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/providence-journal-newspaper-0314-1959-wallace-cyr-obituary-134x300.png 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island), 14 March 1959, page 18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cyr \u2013 I don\u2019t recognize that surname from my family tree.<\/p>\n<p>The obituary informed me that his parents were Edmond and Florence (Davis) Cyr. (Discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/last-name-meaning?last_name=davis\">Davis last name origin<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>Plugging them into my family tree on FamilySearch.org, I quickly found that his mother \u2013 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/tree\/person\/details\/LJPK-MBB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florence (Davis) Cyr<\/a> \u2013 was already in FamilySearch.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that, I could quickly determine that Wallace Cyr and I are 9th cousins \u2013 we both descend from Roger Eastman (1610-1694) and Sarah Smith (1622-1698), who raised their family in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salisbury,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salisbury, Massachusetts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well \u2013 we might not have been at the table together for Sunday dinner \u2013 we might not even have made it to the Christmas card list \u2013 but, now that we know that we are actually cousins \u2013 it is different.<\/p>\n<p>We are family.<br \/>\nAmazing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnXmGscq7OE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp checking his theory that pretty much all early, northern New Englanders are related, using Lewiston, Maine, as a test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[2084,12,2020],"class_list":["post-30907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-family-trees","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photo-0430-2018-featured-graphic-bates-college.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}