-> On 29 Nov 06  16:47:07, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: obvious was: relation   
      
    DC>>>> Are you related to the wife of a former presidential candidate?     
    NB>>> You are losing me here?   I'm related to all sorts of famous people,   
    NB>>> mostly VERY tenuously...  but I think there's something else behind   
    NB>>> your question?  :)   
    DC>>> But of course!  Think of ketchup.     
    NB>> OK, now I know to whom you are referring.... but I still don't see a   
    NB>> connection...  And as far as I know, I don't think we are related...   
       
    DC> Now you need to remember their advertising:     
    DC> 57 varieties!      
      
    NB> Ah.  If I connect that to the "rest is from all over" part, your   
    NB> question doesn't seem quite so left-fieldish...    I may not QUITE   
      
   It was a we bit subtle I guess...       
      
      
    NB> be a "Heinz-57", but it does come close... :)  Pretty much any British   
    NB> Isles group, plus French, Dutch, German, Swiss, possibly Polish, and a   
    NB> trace from all sorts of European due to the intermarriages of royalty   
    NB> way back.  A couple of my grandmother's early settler lines were only   
    NB> a few generations removed from English nobility (younger sons, etc),   
    NB> which takes one back into English royalty eventually...   
      
   The Polish part is your saving grace.     
      
      
      
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