Twenty years after he was a student at Florida State University, Atlanta resident, Stan Thomas, shook his family tree, and two of his fraternity brothers fell out of it.
Thomas said he was not really that into genealogy when he was in college. It did not come until later, when he started attending family reunions, that he got into finding out about relatives he never knew he had.
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