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| Topic | Posted by | Last Reply | Replies | |
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 | Thank You | Tyrrian | 03/04/2010 17:48:43 | 0 |
| This is just to say thank you to everyone who has helped me, some info has been invaluable other bits not the same family . But without help for others most of us would not have progresses as far as we have. i certainly would not have. So Thanks again and keep up the great work. I very much appreciate all the help I have received Tyrrian TyrrianYo | ||||
| found | Eion | 02/04/2010 18:35:49 | 0 |
| many thanks to genes for help i have now found my husbands first family who he has not seen for 50 years and lots of granchildren and great granchildren thank to you all thank youas well to jackaline for her help | ||||
| French Translation | Ron | 01/04/2010 21:05:23 | 0 |
| Thank you for all the help . Christine especially for translating our old French birth certificate amazingly well and giving us lots of new information . | ||||
| I have a family now. | RomanyStar | 31/03/2010 21:30:24 | 0 |
| By using Genes, we discovered one of my best friends is my husbands 2nd cousin! We had no idea, so when out baby was baptised we asked her to be Godmother. I have also found a half brother, half sister, nieces and nephews, aunties, and countless cousins and 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th cousins!! All by starting with Genes in 2005. | ||||
| My Tree | Maureen | 30/03/2010 21:28:05 | 0 |
| Ive just been looking at my family tree and thought how well ive done with it, I would like to thank all the people on genes re-united that have helped me along the way. People are so willing to help .You just post a message and there they are. Once again a very big thankyou. maureen x | ||||
| malshinger | Carol Ann | 30/03/2010 18:35:04 | 0 |
| After years of trying to find my mothers' family, the Malschingers'I did so within 3-4 days of signing onto this web site.I have been contacted by so many relatives whom i never knew existed.I thought mum only had 1 brother! I was also looking for my grandmothers' family & with the help of "Astra" found her mother , Ann Pope, & dad, William James Orvis. Now ineed to find the rest of those families. This is a wonderful site,the volenteers are awesome! Carol Philpott | ||||
| my dad has a family | Peter | 29/03/2010 19:14:11 | 0 |
| my father was placed in the Thomas coram school in 1941 after his mother could not afford to keep him, she tried for 9 months but it was to much, his name was changed and he was fostered out. he tried several times to trace his mother and it was not until i had access to the internet that i began to trace his roots. we discovered his mother passed away in 1993 but i could not find anyone that was related to her until feb 2009. it was then i found joan, his cousin, she was researching the family for her mother and they are both in australia. they have been able to fill in the last 69 years for my dad, provide pictures of his mum and extended family. in additon on new years eve 2005 i found my half brother that i have been looking for for the last 14 years... all thanks to this site | ||||
| my dad and sister | Hannah | 29/03/2010 10:37:06 | 0 |
| I would just like to say thank you for your help you know who you are for helping me find my dad that i have not seen for 35 yrs also i found out that i have a sister to i am going to meet them soon. So a big thank you again i have been looking for years i was about to give up and this site and your help, helped me reach my end, i will forever greatful. Hannah | ||||
| tranter | tn | 28/03/2010 06:46:15 | 0 |
| like to thank everyone who help me find out about my grandparents and family i have found out i have great great aunty in america and in perth i never knew and still finding more people thank you all tina | ||||
| Found after 98 years - my father's blood relatives | Julia | 25/03/2010 21:44:53 | 0 |
| My father was born in 1912 in Staffordshire and due to his mother being widowed he was adopted aged 3 because his mother had to go into service and couldn't afford to keep him, He always knew he had a sister and remembered being taken to visit her when he was small. His real mother tried to contact him in 1956 when he was 42 but he declined. He had spent 20 years maintaining his adopted mother due to her being widowed and feared he would be starting again. In his last years he expressed regret at never having known any blood relatives and I searched the microfilm in the library in search of his sister but it is only since joining genes reunited I got a match at last with his real family and have now visited them and have photos of his mother and sister which has been such a thrill. The pieces of the jigsaw have been fitted together at last thanks to Genes Reunited | ||||
| two half sisters | Leslie | 25/03/2010 09:11:39 | 0 |
| When i started doing my family tree, i remember two girls visiting our house with my dad when i was about 5 yeears old, and i always wondered who they were, i have a photograph of myself stood outside the house with the girls. Dad had been married before he was very young at the time which was a bit of a shock, anyway i found the marriage certificate then i looked for children and found two girls born in 1926 and 1928, I had two half sisters but where were they living? I managed to trace one sister so i wrote to her she was over the moon we met up and what a wonderful happy emotional day we all shared , and the two girls in the photo were my two neices and not my sisters. If only i had traced my family tree earlier i would have met my other half sister but she had past away which was sad. I was shown lots of photos of my grandparents and i learnt lots about my dad that i didnt know,he died aged 60 when i was 9, so my half sister was able to show me photos, tell me about what he was like as a young man and her dad too. I have a family that i didnt have before and i am happy we started this journey doing the family tree with genes reunited. thanks. | ||||
| Half brothers | William | 23/03/2010 17:44:39 | 0 |
| Thank you all who helped us. I found our half brother and am in correspondence with him and plan to meet up later. I also found our fathers birth date I think. But doesn't matter now anyway. And also found we have a big family from our half brother. Great. And it all happened so quickly. | ||||
| Missing side of family | genieologist | 21/03/2010 08:53:26 | 0 |
| My late father had always claimed to have no living relatives. However, since joining this site I have now met up with 2 of his cousins. One of them is 92 and remembers my father's mother, who died before I was 3. IT was so wonderful to hear her say "Everybody loved her" I also phoned another elderly cousin in Australia, and it turns out he worked with my dad and my grandfather, whom I never knew! It's so special to me as I knew nothing about him before.. K | ||||
| found half sister | Dorothy | 19/03/2010 19:13:35 | 0 |
| Thank you all for the help I have been given tracing my fathers past. I have found my half sister she has been a only child all her live now she had 6 siblings. and we are hoping to meet up soon. | ||||
| Found out my Grandad died 2 yeras ago. Michael Bor | Leah | 19/03/2010 17:09:01 | 0 |
| Hi all. We have been searching for my Grandad for many years. I started to look again in Jan, i almost gave up, I was looking for a very common name,and to cut a very long story short the hours of searching and the kind help of many people on this site i found out he died 2 years ago! To our delight though, he had three more children to who we are in contact with, and plan to meet in the summer. Big thank you again to all that helped xxx DONT GIVE UP PEOPLE ON YOUR SEARCH!!! | ||||
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