{"id":9420,"date":"2010-06-24T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:01:31","slug":"the-rotten-fruit-on-my-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9420","title":{"rendered":"The Various Fruit On My Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father's mother's last name was \"Borden\", and so it's always been a bit of a half-joke in the family that we're related to the famous axe murderess, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lizzie_Borden\">Lizzie Borden<\/a>. Well, bored at work today, I set out to see if there's any truth to this rumor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familytreemaker.genealogy.com\/users\/b\/o\/r\/Chuck-M-Borden\/ODT2-0001.html\">There is<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>If I've <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duerinck.com\/consangu.html\">counted<\/a> correctly, Lizzie and I are 7th cousins, twice removed. (Which frankly is nearly the same as being unrelated). But, we do share a common ancestor: Mr. Richard Borden, who was born Feb 22, <b>1596<\/b>, in Kent, England. He and his family came to America between 1634 and 1638.<\/p>\n<p>I also confirmed another, less murderous, family rumor; Richard Borden is also my common ancestor with Mr. Gail Borden Jr., the man who invented condensed milk and founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordenonline.com\/\">Borden Milk<\/a>. He and I would be fifth cousins, four times removed. Sweet! Condensed!<\/p>\n<p>On another branch, you can descend the tree all the way down to Sir Winston Churchill. His mother was an American and a descendant of the American Bordens. We'd be 9th cousins or something - which is <i>really<\/i> like being unrelated!<\/p>\n<p>And, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenborden.com\/Notables\/BordenNotables.pdf\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenborden.com\/\">this<\/a>, I can also add Willie Nelson, the actress Lana Turner, a Canadian Prime Minister and, <em>possibly<\/em>, Marilyn Monroe. Which just goes to show that the human race's family tree has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/media\/news\/2006\/07\/71298\">shallow roots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father's mother's last name was \"Borden\", and so it's always been a bit of a half-joke in the family that we're related to the famous axe murderess, Lizzie Borden. Well, bored at work today, I set out to see if there's any truth to this rumor. There is! If I've counted correctly, Lizzie and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-axes-and-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}