sisters in law

Auntie Barb and Mom

At barely 17, my mother married, my father left Paris Island and his bride for the war (Okinawa, WWII), and my mother went to live with his mother and younger sister in Alabama. My cousin Glenn sent me this picture of her mother and mine, saying how remarkably similar we look to our mothers in old age. That's a little convoluted. Anyway, the mysteries of genealogy have always escaped me, and all I can think of is that I am blood related to both of these women, and Glenn only to one of them and yet to me.