About 10 days ago, I had a presentation with a team out of Chicago. As people were gathering and we made small talk, someone asked about the weather in Chicago.
"Beautiful, but it might snow this weekend."
I chimed in that my mom was in Steven's Point, to which I heard the surprised reply, "What's your mom doing in Steven's Point?"
"Visiting family."
"My family is from Steven's Point!"
I said - jokingly - we were probably related. Josh replied it was possible: his grandfather had 21 children by three different wives.
In subsequent emails, we traded family lineages. He talked to his mom this weekend: "She says Dr. Stanley delivered all of my grandma's children." (my grandfather) Dr. Stanley and Dr. Jim, actually, but Dr. Jim would have been a little young for those deliveries.
Last name, Wierzba. Silly me, I thought that might be identifying enough, but not in SP - both my mom and my uncle said, "Wierzba? There's thousands of those." Ah well. But Uncle Jim did remember the family.
My grandpa delivered Josh's mother. What are the odds?
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