{"id":37,"date":"2011-07-26T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombc.turbofool.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T09:00:23","slug":"long-lost-cousins-found-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/07\/26\/long-lost-cousins-found-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Lost Cousins Found on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/kathleen-scott\">Kathleen Scott<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My<\/strong> husband&#8217;s grandfather got into genealogy and tracked down their surname &#8211; Engstrom. It&#8217;s a regional uncommon alternative spelling of Angstrom. In the &#8217;30s most of the Engstroms had moved to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My<\/strong> grandfather moved to Los Angeles in the &#8217;30s but his brother stayed in South Africa. I&#8217;ve started to meet the SA contingent through Facebook. Including one Colin Engstrom Scott.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong> can&#8217;t tell you how weird it was to see my husband&#8217;s uncommon surname as my 2nd cousin&#8217;s (x times removed) middle name especially as he was born and raised in South Africa. Turns out it&#8217;s his maternal grandmother&#8217;s surname and that she came from this same area in Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband&#8217;s grandfather got into genealogy and tracked down their surname &#8211; Engstrom. It&#8217;s a regional uncommon alternative spelling of Angstrom. In the &#8217;30s most of the Engstroms had moved to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather moved to Los Angeles in the &#8217;30s but his brother stayed in South Africa. I&#8217;ve started to meet the SA contingent through Facebook. Including one Colin Engstrom Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[641,642,25,417,643,77,644,92,468,645,646,28,243,647,648],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-angstrom","tag-brother","tag-chicago","tag-cousin","tag-engstrom","tag-facebook","tag-genealogy","tag-grandfather","tag-grandmother","tag-kathleen-s","tag-kathleen-scott","tag-los-angeles","tag-south-africa","tag-surname","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}