Years ago I moved to a town north of Milwaukee. Every now and then someone would call me Jaques. Since I didn't know them I mostly said "Hi," and went about my business. One evening I was sitting at a bar and the bartender said, "Damn, you just walked in the door and all this time I thought you were here." I turned around and looked but didn't see much of a resemblance to myself in the fella that just came in. Until he sat at the bar and I looked at his reflection in the mirror on the back of the bar. . . We looked a lot alike. Side by side it was easy to see the differences but I imagine to someone who only seen us once in a while it was probably easy to mistake us for one another.

Indeed. Thats cool, but it shouldnt show every detail from the other person. A chat with the other person will be more interessting than details of him/her :D

There's currently a site like this somewhere, but it only matches celebrities.

Also, I believe that the similarities probably stretch into the dozens, if not hundreds. I'd be more interested in those who are of a different race, or who live in areas I don't expect (e.g. states/countries I know that I don't have relatives in).

I have a cousin that looked alot like me when we were a little bit younger. Same facial structure and everything. The problem is, my cousin is female. I don't know if it's an insult to me or to her.

Also, I seem to have a twin in my current town. I've only caught sight of him a couple times, but I know he's there. I still have the occasional person greeting me thinking I'm him.

Could we have an option on the site where people could be labelled as the evil or good twin/septuplet/whatever ?

http://www.idavista.com/findmytwin/

The site would still need better than 850 Million photos before a twin shows up, at least strictly by the numbers.

I like the idea of people unknown-to-each-other discovering something in common and forming an affinity group because of it. One version of this that's become very popular are online groups of people with the same name. Some of them hold annual get-togethers. Cartoonist Keith Knight did a strip about the interesting people he'd met at a convention of the 153 people in his group. And blogger Marc Rodriguez was amazed to discover and interact with others who share his name, which he'd thought was unique.

Just Google for your own name and who'll find others who share it. (I share mine with: An author of children's books, an official in the British patent office, and a British columnist on auto-racing.)

I hear this phrase with surprising frequency, leaving me with the conclusion that I have extremely ordinary genes. So many people seem to have a cousin, sister or a friend who looks a lot like me that when someone says, “Do I know you?” I assume they too have a forgotten sister or cousin with same looks like me. The most notable (and ludicrous) ... Read Moreexample happened while I was at work today, a patient's relative came to me and ask me for my name, I ended up having a conversation with a woman who swore she’d seen me before. I'm curious now since every day someone tells me that I look like someone they know or that they have seen me before, some can't remember where. Does this happen to a lot of people or am I a small percentage of people that this happens to? Does this happens to anybody else? Any feed back is welcome. I decided to investigate about my everyday experiences with different people, different places, etc. I usually don't give it much thought, today I was thinking, Why?

Lucero, you seem to almost be lamenting that you're ordinary. I don't think this is necessarily bad.

My kids show horses in 4H. The vast majority of other kids show sorrel (light brown) quarter horses. We've always chosen horses that are 'different', like paints, appaloosa, etc. It shows in our ratings--our horses enter the ring with a 'strike against them.' Now sometimes being a little different Is helpful, but conformity is almost always safe.

In our society we walk a fine line trying to conform while being different.

My guess is that if you look like a lot of people, you are probably are good looking and you're 'average genes' are probably average because they're pretty good.

BTW, no one ever tells me I look like someone, but I don't think I qualify as good-looking, either. Here's a test--is there an actress that you look like?

answer is herehttp://www.drhu.org/

I tried the link above, but I wasn't impressed with the results. I uploaded a picture of actress Christina Ricci. I chose it because it was a straight on face shot. I was curious to see if it would match the picture to Chistina herself, but it didn't. In fact most of the matches were men! There was only one girl that looked remotely like Christina, but she certainly wasn't a twin.

who knows how many very distant kinsmen one could discover this way... It was always fascinating to me since i came to Canada from Europe, that I regularly see people in Canada for whom I could name an exact match from somebody i knew in serbia... sometimes you see somebody like that, you almost expect they are going to start talking to you, then you hear them talking in english and its like the magic is gone... Whats bizarre is that some of the people that i could match to a serbian counterpart, I've met well enough to know they have no serbian ancestors, but something geographically close usually kicks in, like italian, or ukranian...