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blueswan ([personal profile] blueswan) wrote in [community profile] genealogy 2015-07-26 12:51 pm (UTC)

That is the nicest thing about digging into my family history, the generosity I have met. Complete strangers who have offered up what has taken ages for them to discover. On my dad's side I found a sixth cousin who had a website but was missing our branch. There must have been something pretty interesting happen but so far I have no idea how my great grandfather managed to have our branch forgotten. So, it was kind of cool to be the cause of adding it back to a major online resourse like his site.


Then there was a thid cousin on my mom's side who had done the work back the arrival of my five times great granfather in a little village in kent england in the mid 1700s. She did the bulk of her work on the ground before the internet.

I feel very fortunate that these people answered my queries, and for all the enthusiasm and kindness they and others have shown to someone just starting.

I have a brother I hope will do a test for a group study into our father's side. I don't know him, but we have recently connected through facebook. Hopefully I can infect him with the bug. I mean we are related, surely he has what mom used to call nose trouble, or simple curiousity, as I do. I hope.

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