-> On 29 Nov 06  16:47:07, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: obvious was: relation

 DC>>>> Are you related to the wife of a former presidential candidate?  
 NB>>> You are losing me here?   I'm related to all sorts of famous people,
 NB>>> mostly VERY tenuously...  but I think there's something else behind
 NB>>> your question?  :)
 DC>>> But of course!  Think of ketchup.  
 NB>> OK, now I know to whom you are referring.... but I still don't see a
 NB>> connection...  And as far as I know, I don't think we are related...
 
 DC> Now you need to remember their advertising:  
 DC> 57 varieties!   

 NB> Ah.  If I connect that to the "rest is from all over" part, your
 NB> question doesn't seem quite so left-fieldish...    I may not QUITE

It was a we bit subtle I guess...    


 NB> be a "Heinz-57", but it does come close... :)  Pretty much any British
 NB> Isles group, plus French, Dutch, German, Swiss, possibly Polish, and a
 NB> trace from all sorts of European due to the intermarriages of royalty
 NB> way back.  A couple of my grandmother's early settler lines were only
 NB> a few generations removed from English nobility (younger sons, etc),
 NB> which takes one back into English royalty eventually...

The Polish part is your saving grace.  



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