Four Degrees of Separation

Randy Seaver offered the following Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge: Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with FOUR degrees of separation? That means "you knew an ancestor, who knew another ancestor, who knew another ancestor, who knew another ancestor." When was that fourth ancestor born? Here is my line: I knew my paternal grandfather, Hendrik Hoitink (1914-2000). He knew his maternal grandmother, Johanna Piek (1860-1930). She would have known her … [Read more...]