July 8 - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

July 8 – Actor Kevin Bacon’s tendency to pop up in nearly every Hollywood movie inspired the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle. Apply this tactic to your research. Try to connect yourself to relatives in as few links as possible.

It’s amazing how small the world really is. I have intertwined my father’s lineage to my mother’s lineage through collateral lines. I have found multiple people from another family keep marrying into my family. Sometimes these family lines have someone who has done research and I find out a lot about my family through their research. I like to thank everyone whose research involves more than just their direct ancestors.