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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 1,987 Send Message	Paul Barton, Special Agent	Report	24 Jan 2013 01:22
Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 1,987 Send Message	LocateFamily.com is a FREE service that allows you to locate family, relatives and friends from around the world. LocateFamily.com is a huge online directory of individuals from all countries, ethnic groups, religions and classes on the planet. Over 700,000 family names and over 25 million individuals with thousands of new names and individuals added daily. Great for making a family tree, tracing ancestry, performing genealogy research or just searching for people. LocateFamily.com can also be used to: Find Friends you may have lost contact with. Use the exclusive free people search features to find out where your lost friends currently live and how to contact them. Perform genealogy research. Find names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of relatives. Free people search. Search for people for any other reason for FREE.
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 34,851 Send Message	Reggie	Report	24 Jan 2013 09:14
	American site?
	Researching: I am in no way related to anyone for whom I do lookups To acknowledge any info I may post, please do NOT click on my name. There is a large white box entitled 'Add your reply' for the purpose.
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 69 Send Message	Inky1	Report	24 Jan 2013 12:01
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 69 Send Message	Interesting. Googled it. As well as the site itself, Paul's above post also came back in the hits. Opening the site I did notice that there is a link to this site??????? Wonder how a "free" site gets personal data (eg phone numbers)? Even in the Legal Stuff page there is nothing to indicate where it is based, nor who sponsors it. LocateFamily.com · Legal Notice LocateFamily.com is owned and operated by an entity that does not have its official place of business in the United States or Canada. As a result, the laws of the United States and or Canada do not necessarily apply and LocateFamily.com may not be pursued in the jurisdiction of the United States or Canada for any content found on the site. No confidential information is made available on LocateFamily.com. LocateFamily.com updates its database on a regular basis to ensure that the information displayed continues to be valid. LocateFamily’s Intended Use LocateFamily.com makes the information in its pages available as is and does not warrant the veracity of the information. The sole intent of making the data available is purely for informational purposes. No defamation of any kind is intended. Removal, Addition or Update of Information LocateFamily.com will currently NOT remove, add or modify any of the information contained in its pages at the request of an individual since LocateFamily.com can not authenticate the source of the request. When a request is received, LocateFamily.com may suspend access to the information pending a review. Please use the form on the Contact Us page to submit a request for the suspension of information. We thank you for your understanding. Copyright and Use Information displayed on LocateFamily.com is property of LocateFamily.com and its interests. The information made available on LocateFamily.com is intended for individual private use. Corporations wishing to use this information may make arrangements with LocateFamily.com by contacting our legal department via legal@LocateFamily.com. Any legal inquiries must be forwarded via e-mail to legal@LocateFamily.com.
Member Since: January 2008 Posts: 443 Send Message	Andysmum	Report	24 Jan 2013 12:02
Member Since: January 2008 Posts: 443 Send Message	I have just tried it, using my own surname, of which there are plenty in the UK, and 99% of them were in Canada. The rest were in the USA. Other, less common, family names aren't listed at all!! There seem to be links to various sites - Genes, 192.com - all paying sites, so only free to a certain extent.
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 613 Send Message	BeverleyW	Report	24 Jan 2013 12:22
	I just tried it, searching for my ancestors in the UK and Australia. The name I searched is not very common but 4 pages of results came up: like Andysmum says, 99% in Canada and 1% in the USA. If I had any USA ancestors I might have been tempted to look further but none of my lot emigrated in that direction.
	Researching: Weedon - Australia, Hertfordshire; Paterson - Scotland; Elmer - Huntingdon; Ball, Lloyd, Warren - Birmingham

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