People you don't expect to be kin to you, even if Jane Austen is--John Herschel Glenn, Jr., astronaut and senator

The great thing about the DNA charts now available is that you can not only go to the oldest cousin in the USA but to someone like Gabriel Glenn born in Ireland in 1717. Then you can follow his line down hoping to see some Carolina cousin and get to John Herschel Glenn and smile at the coincidence of the middle name (for it is coincidence) then notice something about his son. Well, of course. My goodness. Jane, you are still the cousin I am happiest to have, but what's really remarkable is how much is known about the Glenns from Renfrewshire. If only I could go one link back beyond the John Glenn who married Abigail Rogers and populated Arkansas and Oklahoma . . . .