Relatively Speaking...

Today was an emotional day for the Cuttsy clan, today the family grew. No, No not like that!
Pops has over the past year or so been tracing the family tree, starting out with ruler, pen & paper (pops is old school) and moving to genesreunited.co.uk once WHSmith couldn't supply paper big enough to fit the ever expanding tree.

We now have hundreds of identified relatives dating back to the sixteen hundreds. It's a hell of an achievement and has thrown up some surprises along the way, an FA cup winning Sheffield United & England football player being just one, Sheff U were somewhat more accomplished back in the day.

This though has not been an easy task for pops as he never knew his father & all family documents were lost years ago. So big up for pops, job well done, although discovering I'm descended from a Polish immigrant was a shocker! I was hoping for royalty, still it should help if I need to get a plumbing job in London.

Now the reach of the Internet & the laziness of people out there to research and corroborate their data means that emails come from cuttsys far and wide claiming kinship (still no royalty though!). Pops checks them out and ninety nine out of a hundred are false trails but the odd one adds to the tree.

Today though was special, today at the tender age of 68 pops discovered he had a 1/2 brother, Roy! The long lost (and unfortunately late) Grandpa Cuttsy remarried and sired a new branch of the Cuttsy clan. This is by no means the end of the story, 1/2 brothers will meet and memories exchanged, Christmas card lists will need to expand and blogs will need to be written.

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So you see money may not grow on trees but families definitely do!