Names

I had a conversation earlier with my boss, a remarkably intelligent man, about a posting of his on this blogspot re a Proulx ancestor. He discovered that the name was changed somewhere along the way and was originally Proust. Naturally, seeing the name of the author of Remembrance of Things Past, he wondered whether he could be related to Marcel Proust. After some digging, he discovered that they were related! He and Proust are fifty-eighth cousins, nineteen times removed.It's a small world...