Second cousins discovered after 70+ years

Second cousins discovered after 70+ years

This morning - over a leisurely cup of coffee - we watched a heartwarming TV segment on the CBS morning news program.

Two women who grew up in the same Chicago neighborhood, after escaping Nazi Germany during WWII, found a surprising connection. One of the women discovered a branch of her family on Ancestry.com and saw a familiar face: a neighbor from 70+ years ago. To jump to the punchline, their grandfathers were brothers.

Read their moving story about "six degrees of separation" here.