Do you or someone else in your family bear a strong resemblance to an ancestor of a few generations ago? If so, Family Chronicle Magazine would like to hear from you. According to the magazine’s publisher, Halvor Moorshead:

When we carried a small item in the March/April 2001 issue showing the strikingly similar appearances of distant relatives, we were hoping for a modest response. The response was amazing. Clearly significant similarities are not that uncommon and the likenesses can be extraordinary.

As far as we know, no formal study has been undertaken of this phenomenon.

We would very much like to hear from readers who have examples in their own family showing very similar appearance—though few are likely to be as marked as that shown here. For this exercise, we are not interested in close relationships. The subjects should not share more than one eighth the same blood. Great-grandparents, second cousins, or more remote relationships definitely qualify.

Scanned images may be attached to e-mails. Please do NOT send originals—we cannot return photographs. Please contact:

Halvor Moorshead, Publisher, Family Chronicle,
505 Consumers Rd., Suite 500,
Toronto, Ontario, M2J 4V8, Canada.
e-mail: publisher@moorshead.com

You can read more about this at: www.familychronicle.com/alike.html

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