A Surprising Cousin
5 min readJan 2, 2021
I discovered that I am fifth cousins with a friend I’ve known since elementary school.
Scott and I have been friends since the fourth grade. I knew that he was half Okinawan like me but I had no idea that we shared ancestors until I looked up his name on the Okinawan Genealogical Society of Hawaii’s (OGSH) searchable database and saw a familiar name. The database has…