Are We Related??
@chrissbergstrom (10767)
Banks, Oregon
April 3, 2017 3:39pm CST
As wonderful as myLot has been sharing my own Family stories, i never envisioned i would run into another family member here! So when @jstory07 sent me a message asking if my name was Christopher Bergstrom and from Buxton, Oregon, and has i did a AncestryDNA test, i said yes!! and When Judy said her maiden name was Wykle, i about fell out of my chair!!!
The Wykle family name is one i have spent alot of years researching in fact my Great Grandmother was very close to many of her Wykle first cousins, including Jack Wykle, who happens to be Judy's dad. So after private messaging for a few days, and chatting about our fellow Wykle family members, i asked if it was ok i shared our connection on here and after some hesitation she gave me the ok.
This photo is of the Wykle Family all gathered together for the marriage of the eldest child Myrtle Wykle to her husband Carmel Edward Hartman, Myrtle and Carmel are my Great Great Grandparents, and parents of my Great Grandma Martha Hartman Smith someone my brother has wrote about quite a bit on here.
Myrtle is seated center, and the little boy on the right Plennie Wykle is Judy's Grandpa and Plenny is the youngest child, and as Judy told me he was named Plennie because Martha Ann Rambo Wykle thought she had plenty of children!!!
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@BarBaraPrz (47662)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
3 Apr 17
How many did she have?!?
Anyway, it's nice that you found a family connection here.
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@jstory07 (139927)
• Roseburg, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom Edith Wykle was not her baby. One of the daughters had Edith. Aunt Nellie told me that family secret and I got in trouble for telling it to others. Oh well.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@jstory07 So there was 8 then, yes those family secrets are abundant in family trees, i love genealogy there is always new things to discover.
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
3 Apr 17
Wow, what an amazing experience to find a relative here on myLot! I'm glad you found each other and hope you'll become good friends. 
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
3 Apr 17
Yes and it's funny because she has been friends on here with my brother for over a year or so now he said and he had no idea, you just never know where or when you will meet family, always nice to have more cousins!
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@jstory07 (139927)
• Roseburg, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom I figured coming to Oregon I would find more of my mother's relatives since Wilsonville, Oregon was named after by great grand father Charles Wilson.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@jstory07 Yes i wish we had known about you sooner how long have you been in Oregon? my Great Grandma Martha passed at 98 she just loved family, she always talked about different relatives, there was a school teacher Alex Kennedy whom also lived in Oregon he was Annie Wykle Kennedy's son. His son did alot of genealogy to.
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@allknowing (137708)
• India
4 Apr 17
Now tell me. How exactly are you and Judy related? (lol)
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@allknowing (137708)
• India
4 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom When in today's times even siblings drift apart this search of yours is phenomenal!!!
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
Read in the comments we are 2nd cousins 2 times removed
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@allknowing Yes it is great to know so many family
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@GoAskAlice (5827)
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5 Apr 17
Wow, small world! This is a great story and just the sort of thing that makes family history colorful and interesting. What a story for the grand kids 
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
5 Apr 17
Really is such a rare occurrence on a platform like this makes me very happy
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
It has been great getting to know her, and now i can call her family to!
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@connierebel (1557)
• United States
3 Apr 17
That's interesting. I don't know if I would want to find any relatives I didn't know I had. I'm a pretty private person and not very sociable, so if they're out there, I probably wouldn't be interested in getting acquainted anyway. (Unless they were rich, LOL!) Supposedly we have some distant cousins out in California, but I don't know anything about them.
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@connierebel (1557)
• United States
4 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom That's true, I guess. I'm a terrible introvert, I'm not good at making friends.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@connierebel I understand that sometimes its hard for me to
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
That is to bad, you never know what you might have in common with distant relatives, i honestly get along with some of my distant relatives much better then my close relatives! lol
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
4 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom I wouldn't know if I met anyone here because I don't use my full name.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@Gina145 could be hard that way
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
Yes i have got in touch with alot of family just did not envision id meet some on here
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
4 Apr 17
That is the most interesting thing that has happened here from what I can recall!
Who would have thought that would happen? Not you I'll bet!
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@jstory07 Yeah my brother was quite surprised to!
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
Yes her dad and my Great Grandma would be first cousins, so she would be 2nd cousins to my Grandpa, so i would be her 2nd cousin two times removed.
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@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
It's a small world
When I found my biological relatives I found there were a gazillion of them...literally hundreds of cousins
When I found my biological relatives I found there were a gazillion of them...literally hundreds of cousins2 people like this
@jstory07 (139927)
• Roseburg, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom David Kennedy has found over 50,000 Wykle's on a cd that he send me. Each one of them had over 12 children.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
@jstory07 Yes David Kennedy that is the mans name i was thinking, are you able to find that cd would love a copy? i got a old binder full of info that came from him.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
Yes my family tree never ends i discover more relatives everyday!
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
Yes i thought it was pretty amazing!
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
4 Apr 17
Wow, how cool is that? Small world!
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
It really is a small world afterall and to think are ancestors are from Kansas and somehow we both ended up in Oregon lol
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@thislittlepennyearns (62928)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
3 Apr 17
That's awesome! I need to do some more research on my family and gather it up again, since I have lost it in a move.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
I just love Genealogy, there is nothing quite like finding out about our family history.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
Yes it was such a surprise, i knew i liked her just didn't realize we happen to be family to!!
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@owlandbutterfly (304)
• United States
3 Apr 17
How crazy to find a relative on myLot like that!
I have a somewhat similar story from the early days of the site... I made friends with a user here who lived pretty close to me. (Back then, myLot had a feature that let us see all of the users who had registered in specific towns.) Anyway, we lost contact after several months for some reason, and then a year or so later one of my friends introduced me to her new roommate. After hanging out for a few weeks, we started discussing some of the ways we were making extra money, and realized we'd known each other for even longer than she'd known my friend.
It really is a small world, isn't it?
It really is a small world, isn't it?2 people like this
@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
4 Apr 17
It really is a small world what a great story, Yes i even mentioned to Judy we have family reunions all the time and some Wykle family descendants are known to come so who knows we might have a family reunion someday lol
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