It's a Small World!

You hear that comment from time to time thru life - It's a Small World. Well yesterday my family proved that yes indeed it really is a small world. June is coming up and the end of that month will be when the local Towle Family has a Family Day at our house. I am planning to do pictures of Grandparents/Grandkids and various other groups. We are fortunate enough to have Jason (our oldest grandson) and his wife coming from Atlanta. Everyone else is here in town. Lee's brother, sister & husband will also be here - so I'm planning on a lot of fun memories.

Okay now to the small world part. I sent out a preliminary e-mail to all my kids and their spouses to let them know the plans. The one to my daughter-in-law, Lana aka - ltowle@ should have been lgtowle@ went to NH. Later on Monday I sent out another e-mail giving them some additional information. I received that second e-mail back, returned by someone named "Leslie Towle". Leslie? I said - I don't remember any Leslie Towle's. Hmmm.

Well the story expanded. Leslie lives in New Hampshire and his youngest daughter lives in Fishers, IN. He called his daughter, and asked her to check out whether there is a Towle Family Reunion they are missing that they should know about. Hmmm.

Stacy, the daughter, called Stephanie, our Nathan's wife. Stephanie told Stacy to call Nathan. She did and Nathan did his best to give them the information they were requesting. Are we related?

Leslie not satisfied with that information sent me another e-mail today giving me his Towle genealogy - his history goes back to Philip Towle in Hampton, NH in the late 1600's and asking for our history. Well it turns out we go back to the same Philip Towle in Hampton, NH in the late 1600's and yes we are related somehow, but at this time I haven't figured out exactly when and where.

What are the odds. Like I said "It is a small world". As far as I know, Leslie and his family of Towle's are not attending our Towle Family Day in June!