This is cool

Hi Alexander Chad Wienert, he is my 13th great grandfather, so we are related!

Hi Alexander! Sir Thomas is my 15th great grandfather and you are my 14th cousin! So cool to hear from you...since you live in the town where my great grandfather was born. His name was known to the family as Stephen James Eubank and he's always been a mystery in our family, since he abandoned my grandmother and her 3 small children in about 1919, never to be heard from again! A search of census records shows him at the age of two years old in 1870, living in Sedalia, MO, with his parents, James Joseph Eubank and James' second wife, Else Rouser. His name on the census is not shown as Stephen James Eubank is not listed under that name on the 1870 census, but rather is listed as Uselle or Abselle, so that was very puzzling. I've always wondered if my mother and her sister and brother had some "half" siblings somewhere, if Stephen James Eubank remarried after he left my grandmother. Don't know where to start to try and unravel this mystery!
Best Regards, from your 14th cousin, Della Dale Smith

Neat, you're right across the interstate from where my mom grew up in Salisbury. 16th cousin thrice removed. :-)

Della Dale Smith is my 8th cousin and Alexander Chad Wienert is my 9th cousin.

I think you mean 'Lord Mayor of London'

By the way, our Lord Mayors of London project is always looking for more help! (In fact, I don't think we even have an overview yet...) If this is something you're interested in, please consider joining us: http://www.geni.com/projects/Lord-Mayors-of-London

What I have found is that most people who descend from one Lord Mayor often descend from a few others, just because there were *so many* over time. Lord Mayors changed every year and it wasn't lineal, so literally hundreds of families held the title. You can run through the list of Lord Mayors we've found so far and figure out which other ones might be ancestors of yours. :)

Is there a good reason for using a Mayflower Passenger as the Example profile in the Lord Mayor of London Project? It seems inappropriate to me.

Terry Jackson (Switzer)
Thanks so much for pointing this out! I have changed the example profile to the first profile for the project. http://www.geni.com/projects/Lord-Mayors-of-London

Leslie Ann, that's better. There are of course still references to American place names but I guess that may be applicable with families of Mayors of London. Not sure about the Mayors themselves. I didn't spot Boris Johnson on there!

Boris Johnson doesn't belong there. He is a Mayor of London, not a Lord Mayor of London.

Note the difference between

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_London

[I added Boris and removed him quickly when I realised this!]

I have updated the project description to highlight this difference.

That's too bad. He has a great genealogy and he's a great entertainer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are.3F

Very simple. Start a separate Mayors of London project.

Not I! Someone who's more related.

Erica Isabel Howton, Volunteer Curator is Boris Johnson's 15th cousin thrice removed.

A direct cousin relationship! How about that!

OK you got me. That is interesting -- although it would be more fun to find Turkish in my ancestry.

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

One of my favorite ancestors is Boris' and mine's 14th gg

Archibald "Bell the Cat" Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus

He's your 14th gg, but Boris' 17th. You and Boris are thrice removed.

It's likely I have generational geni implosion on my side of the slope. I have one very long lived person in that line, but the rest of the Scots? Probably not so much.

Private User thanks for adding the note to the project!

Boris is thought of as such a bafoon, but he is Sooooo Smart! He gave a talk at our school one evening and I felt so ignorant listening to him.

Are you sure Boris isn't Donald Trump's twin brother?!

Only my 15th cousin several times removed : ( http://www.geni.com/path/Hatte+Anne+Blejer+Rubenstein+is+related+to...

Only my 17th cousin once removed
http://www.geni.com/path/Leslie+Ann+Smedley+is+related+to+Boris+Joh...

Loved the "do"!

Terry, as I stated in my post above, we never got around to making the project description. So please, everyone, feel free to join and do some work! :) Thanks to David for doing some cleanup.

We have the full list of all Lord Mayors in the Documents area of our project: http://www.geni.com/projects/documents/Lord-Mayors-of-London I got the list directly from the Lord Mayor's office. Feel free to consult it when adding people. :)

Yes, if someone wants to add to my one liner under the Overview and Scope of Project, please feel free.

yes it was a typo my bad so i cant believe i related to a lot of you

Chad you're my 14th cousin thrice removed - through the Whitmans. "i sing the body electric ..." Whitmans!

http://www.geni.com/path/Erica+Isabel+Howton+Volunteer+Curator+is+r...

Alexander Chad Wienert Is my 26th cousin once removed and http://www.geni.com/path/Brendan+Marlow+Swemmer+is+related+to+Thoma... is my 12th cousin 15 times removed.

So it looks like I'm more closely related to Thomas.
Dunno what a direct cousin relationaship is though.