Cousin... 65 times removed

Halellulah! There you are. Looking good, too! Fill your mug and snag a virtual treat, why don't'cha? Say, we've done some research into our family history and my cousin Pam has really gotten into it... but nothing like this lady in Pennsylvania...

Mary Beth Webb, from Murrysville, Pennsylvania, is making  some tall claims about her ancestry. She considers herself to be the 64^th great-granddaughter of Saint Joseph Ben Matthat Arimathaea, who is considered to be Virgin Mary’s paternal uncle. So that makes her the Virgin Mary’s cousin, 65 times removed.

Mary has been looking into her ancestry since 2010, and it has taken her two years to spot her connection to Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph of Arimathaea is credited in the Bible for providing the tomb in which Jesus Christ’s body was placed after his execution on the cross.

The idea to research her ancestry came from her other bizarre ritual – speaking to the dead. 

When she lost her brother to cancer in 1999, she started communicating with him and also with her dead parents. Mary’s cousin was always the medium for these conversations – she conveyed messages from Mary’s parents that included details she could never have known about. 

Mary herself admitted that there was no way her cousin could have known some of the stories.

So there you have it...your history lesson for the day.

See ya, eh!

Bob on the mend