Your input needed on an interesting, quick, informal survey...

I have encountered a very interesting phenomena that I would like to share with all of you and, also, get your input on...

My grandmother always said that I was her "birthday present" because she was born on March 9th and I was born only 22 minutes after midnight on March 10th. My daughter was born on exactly the same day as her paternal grandfather and my stepson was born on the same day as HIS paternal grandmother!

These coincidences in my own life have probably made me more interested than most people in people's birthdays and how they compare to other people's birthdays in their family from previous generations...

As a matter of fact, I have talked to many, many people over the years who share this same phenomena and I thought that Gather just might be the venue with a wide enough participation level to conduct a successful informal survey on this subject.

Many people, however, DON'T KNOW what any of their grandparents' birthdays were -- this is the biggest stumbling block that I have found in trying to do this. (Some people, believe it or not, don't even know what their PARENTS' birthdays are/were!)... So, what I would be very interested in knowing, if you know and feel like sharing, is:

Do you know if any of the birthdays (day and month) of your parents and/or grandparents or aunts and uncles are the same as either your birthday, your siblings', your children, your nieces'/nephews' or cousins' birthdays?

You, by NO MEANS, have to indicate the ACTUAL DATES involved; however, I would be very, very interested in the RELATIONSHIP between the two (or more) people involved.

For example: Yes! My son's birthday is on the same date as my maternal grandfathers'! (Please indicate which side of the family, as in "maternal" or "paternal", for the older members of the family, and the relationship of that person to the younger one with the same birthday, if you would...)

If the birthdays are not exact but VERY CLOSE (as in the case of me and my paternal grandmother), please put those in, too, and -- again, if you would -- indicate the amount of difference between the two (i.e., one day, two days, a few hours) up to plus/minus about 3 days... We'll make three days the "cut-off" -- beyond that, is too much difference, I feel, for the experiment's purposes...

SECONDLY, FOR THOSE WITH BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE KNOWLEDGE OF ASTROLOGY (if you have the time and feel so inclined):

I have found that, often, one particular sign of the zodiac is dominant within families (for instance, in my husband's immediate family, there are/were five different people, of different generations, who were all born under the sign of Scorpio, also, sometimes a child will represent some combination of both their mother's and father's sun signs somehow in their sun and rising sign or their rising and moon sign, etc. For instance, I have the same sun sign as my mother (Pisces) and my rising sign (ascendant) is the same as my father's sun sign (Sagittarius). 

If either of these situations applies to you or some member of your family and you know about it, I would also be very interested in hearing it. 

If the cross-section of Gatherites is ANYTHING LIKE the majority of people that I've run into in my life, I think it will surprise all of you how many of us share this similarity!

Of course, I can't PAY anybody for their participation -- but you DO get Gather points for posting (and that's in ADDITION to any "entertainment value" we might get out of it)!  ;o) 

THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO TAKE THE TIME TO RESPOND!

:^)

jean