Ancestry research will bring many surprises. I'm up for it!! Are you???

These two wonderful people are Ella Guillory and her son Eligha Guillory Jr.  I discovered on the app, We're Related, that Eligha and I are truly related.  He is my seventh cousin three times removed.  It's a stretch but we are happy with it. We are related on his Father's side.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that his mother is my cousin as well.  She and I are much closer.  We are sixth cousins.  We share our fifth great grandfather, Jean Baptiste Hebert.  He was born in 1742 and died in 1819. He lived to the ripe old age of 77.

I have been friends with Eligha and his mother for at least five years.  Eligha and I work very closely on the Eljay Foundation for Parkinson Syndrome Awareness.  My husband has Parkinson's disease and Eligha's father, Eligha (Jay) Guillory Sr. had Parkinson's disease.  Eligha recognized the need for a foundation to help others who had a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and so he and his family developed the Eljay Foundation.  It is named for his mother, Ella and his father, Jay.

I hear people saying that the We're Related App is worthless.  I don't think so.  Without it, I would not have ever known that we are related and how.