Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Were Your Parents Related To Each Other?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  Were your parents related to each other?  Do your paternal and maternal lines have any surnames in common? Are they related or is there no known connection?  Are there possible connections?

2)  Share about your real or potential relationships between your parents in your own blog post or on your Facebook page.  Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.

 [thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!] 

Here's mine:

I found several connections between my parents, Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) and Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002).

*  I used the RootsMagic 10 "Relationship Chart" to find their closest relationship.  They were 7th cousins, with common ancestors of Timothy Hamant (1667-1718) and Melatiah Clark (1647-1747).

*  I tried to use FamilySearch Family Tree and WikiTree to find relationships between my parents, but their relationship calculators work only for yourself, not two persons not yourself.

*  I tried to use Legacy Family Tree 10 also, but the relationship calculator is between yourself and another person, not between two persons not yourself.

*  I tried to use Family Tree Maker 2019 also, but the relationship calculator is between yourself and another person, not between two persons not yourself.

*  Then I recalled the Exploring Family Trees website (https://learnforeverlearn.com/ancestors/) and uploaded a fresh GEDCOM of just my known ancestors and saw:

This chart represents all of the known ancestors in my RootsMagic 10 database.  My mother's tree is on the left, my father's tree is on the right.  When I zoom into the tree, I can see who the xcommon ancestors are, including:

*  6th great-grandparents Timothy Hamant (1667-1718) and Melatiah Clark (1647-1747).

*  8th great-grandparents Joseph Clarke (1613-1684) and Alice Fenn (1619-1710).

*  9th great-grandparents Edward Richmond (1632-1696) and Abigail Davis (1637-1682).

*  9th great-grandparents Joseph Holloway (1605-1647) and Rose Allen (1609-1692).

*  10th great-grandparents George Allen (1585-1648) and Katherine --?-- (1585-1620).

*  19th great-grandparents John Mowbray (1340-1368) and Elizabeth de Segrave (1338-1368). 

*  23rd great-grandparents Henry II (1133-1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204).

There are several others in the 9th-10th great-grandparents range but the lines are too thick to determine them.

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