From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jan 4 07:11:41 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k04EBfSK028218; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:11:41 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k04EBf1t003622 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:11:41 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k04BjGFI010345 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 06:45:16 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k04BjGEK010344 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 06:45:16 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0464LFI009317 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:04:21 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k048UYc3018142 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:30:34 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Nshock2@aol.com Wed Jan 4 01:30:34 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k048UYSK018131 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:30:34 -0700 Received: from imo-m24.mx.aol.com (imo-m24.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.5]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k048UUKM032261 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:30:30 -0700 Received: from Nshock2@aol.com by imo-m24.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.ea.7818ab5f (16930) for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:30:21 -0500 (EST) From: Nshock2@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:30:21 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5021 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] When I started Researching my family I started researching my children's genealogy about Ten years ago. I told them I wanted to see if they were siblings and cousins. I was married twice and each husband was named Stephen Shockey. My first Stephen and I had one daughter together before he died from Leukemia. I met my second husband when people thought he had died and sent his father sympathy cards. One of his friends called me by mistake and told me that he needed to talk to him and who the heck was I. I told him I was Steve's wife and he said he didn't know he had a wife. I told him he had a wife and a small child. He snarled back at me that he had just seen him 3 weeks ago and that he did NOT have a wife, he just didn't say it that nicely . I told him that if he has seen him 3 weeks ago it was an act of God because he had died Five weeks ago. The next night my doorbell rang and a young man was standing there saying his name was Stephen Shockey. I immediately locked the screen door and told him he was crazy. He swore that he was not crazy and held up his military ID and driver's license to prove he was who he said he was. Come to find out our father's knew each other and had been carpenter's in the same local and we had the same family doctor growing up while living on opposite sides of town. We talked for hours and then within a few months were dating and then in over two years we were married and had three children together. (We are still happily married 31 years later.) Once the kids were nearly grown and the last one was in High School I decided to trace both husband's lines to see if there was a connection. I found out right away that nearly everyone who's surname was spelled like ours was related since the German surname of Schacke had been "Americanized" with the original ancestor who came to America in the early 1700s. To my knowlege he was the only Schake who's surname was spelled that way after coming to America. After nearly two year of research I was able to prove that my first husband descended from the orignal ancestors 5th son while my second husband descended from his 2nd son. So my children really were cousins 9 times removed and siblings. How strange is that? Through genealogy we were able to get pictures from Unknown cousins of my second husbands' grand parents and great-grandparents. What a generous thing to share those with us. You seem to meet the nicest people on earth doing genealogy. Hope my story brings a smile to your face and maybe a chuckle or two. Nancy Shockey Shockey