But where does a family stop or start, how do you decide who's in and who isn't.
I started to look into my family tree on a webiste called findmypast.co.uk and am only starting to realise now how big my family really is.
Previously I had thought my family was just Jess the five boys and our daughte; that was what I really classed as family anyway. But on doing my family tree i've started to include my aunties, uncles, cousins, Jess's mum, dad, stepdad, brothers, sister, their husbands and wives... and then their family too. It actually never ends when you think about it.
So just how true is the six degrees of seperation theory? According to Wikipedia
"Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps."
Now that the Earth is 'technologically smaller' and you can speak to anyone, anywhere, anytime [unless you live in Barlaston where mobile signal is non existant] and the Earth's transport links are much better so you can travel to just about any point within 24 hours is it still just six degrees?
I have family in Australia, a friend who travels the world constantly for work, a South African boss and work with someone whose mum lives in America, so that is now four countries I have theoretical links too (not including my travelling friend) so I wonder, just think about how many links it would take you to join to someone in a different country or from a different culture.
And that's that for todays ramblings.
Thanks
Rob
I started to look into my family tree on a webiste called findmypast.co.uk and am only starting to realise now how big my family really is.
Previously I had thought my family was just Jess the five boys and our daughte; that was what I really classed as family anyway. But on doing my family tree i've started to include my aunties, uncles, cousins, Jess's mum, dad, stepdad, brothers, sister, their husbands and wives... and then their family too. It actually never ends when you think about it.
So just how true is the six degrees of seperation theory? According to Wikipedia
"Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps."
Now that the Earth is 'technologically smaller' and you can speak to anyone, anywhere, anytime [unless you live in Barlaston where mobile signal is non existant] and the Earth's transport links are much better so you can travel to just about any point within 24 hours is it still just six degrees?
I have family in Australia, a friend who travels the world constantly for work, a South African boss and work with someone whose mum lives in America, so that is now four countries I have theoretical links too (not including my travelling friend) so I wonder, just think about how many links it would take you to join to someone in a different country or from a different culture.
And that's that for todays ramblings.
Thanks
Rob
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