{"id":92204,"date":"2016-01-20T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=92204"},"modified":"2016-10-10T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:13:51","slug":"second-cousins-discovered-on-geni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/second-cousins-discovered-on-geni-92204.html","title":{"rendered":"Second Cousins Discovered on Geni"},"content":{"rendered":"

We love hearing stories from our users when they make fascinating new discoveries. Recently, genealogy blogger\u00a0Kitty Cooper shared an amazing discovery<\/a> she made just last week thanks to Geni. Through the power of collaboration, she’s found her\u00a0long lost second cousins in Germany!<\/p>\n

Kitty shares that her family has always known of family in Bavaria, but surnames and where they lived remained a mystery. According to family lore, Kitty’s great grandfather, Benedict Reiner<\/a>, was studying to be a priest when he had an illegitimate son\u00a0with the daughter of a local inn keeper. Benedict would leave for Munich and later have family of his own. According to Kitty’s mother, his illegitimate son was named Xavier and he paid the occasional visit to Benedict. With little information to go on, Kitty was unsure if she would ever find this\u00a0missing branch of her tree.<\/p>\n

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Image: Margarette and Benedict Reiner, 1889 \/ Courtesy of Kitty Cooper<\/em><\/p>\n

While doing a quick search\u00a0to upload a marriage document to the profiles of\u00a0Benedict and her great grandmother, Kitty\u00a0made a startling\u00a0discovery. After\u00a0entering the name of her great grandfather into the search bar on Geni, she was surprised to find two profiles appear in the search results. As expected, one of the profiles was the Benedict Reiner she had added to her family tree. The other was a Benedict Reiner with no dates and a different wife and son. However, upon closer inspection, she noticed that the child’s name was Franz Xaver L\u00f6ffler<\/a>. The son had been born two years before Benedict married Kitty’s great grandmother. She quickly sent a message to\u00a0the profile manager to ask if she thought the two profiles could be\u00a0the same.<\/p>\n

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Image: Franz Xaver L\u00f6ffler and his family \/ Courtesy of Katharina Eder<\/em><\/p>\n

In her reply, Kitty received more than she could ask for. The two profiles were indeed the same! Benedict was the profile manager’s third great grandfather, thus making her Kitty’s second cousin twice removed. The new cousins have already started sharing family history information and photographs. And Kitty’s brother will be heading to Munich for a visit soon, too!<\/p>\n

It’s stories like these that illustrate the power of\u00a0Geni’s World Family Tree<\/a>. Through the collaborative efforts of genealogists and family history historians, the World Family Tree is helping to connect\u00a0families all around the world. Geni’s\u00a0Tree Matches automatically find\u00a0profiles believed to be duplicates, to make it easier for you to connect with new branches of your family. Sometimes the information on similar\u00a0profiles may be\u00a0too\u00a0different, so\u00a0a match will not be found.\u00a0With over 150 million profiles on Geni,\u00a0it never hurts to do a manual search on occasion to see what\u00a0new possibilities may await. It\u00a0may just lead you to\u00a0the breakthrough you’ve been searching for.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Kitty on this exciting discovery! Be sure to check out\u00a0Kitty Cooper’s Blog<\/a>\u00a0to read more about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We love hearing stories from our users when they make fascinating new discoveries. Recently, genealogy blogger\u00a0Kitty Cooper shared an amazing discovery she made just last week thanks to Geni. Through the power of collaboration, she’s found her\u00a0long lost second cousins in Germany! Kitty shares that her family has always known of family in Bavaria, but surnames and where they lived remained a mystery. According to family lore, Kitty’s great grandfather, Benedict Reiner, was studying to… Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":92209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[6517,5781],"class_list":["post-92204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-kitty-cooper","tag-user-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92204"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95218,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92204\/revisions\/95218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}