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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: March 2005 Posts: 3,307 Send Message	BrendafromWales	Report	6 Jan 2013 21:55
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 3,307 Send Message	Germolene is a different consistency now to the way it was in the little tin and not deep pink like it was..it certainly isn't as nice a smell, I have an odd memory of a smell I liked....don't laugh....I loved the smell of my grandmas coal cellar...now you know how weird I am!
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 1,296 Send Message	Aileen	Report	6 Jan 2013 21:47
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 1,296 Send Message	Lol.....I loved the smell too....I used to think Root Beer tasted like Germoline but it doesn't so much now
Member Since: October 2008 Posts: 13,848 Send Message	StrayKitten	Report	6 Jan 2013 21:43
	bazuka chewing gum, when i was little smelt like it too and ya got a free tatto, or cartoom strip lol
	Researching: It wasn't me
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 62,420 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	6 Jan 2013 21:37
	I vaguely remember a chewing or bubble gum just after the war that tasted like germoline smells (or smelled). edited, stupid IPad and its prescriptive text again and I didn't check because i was watching TV at the same time, sorry.
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: August 2006 Posts: 22,648 Send Message	Tecwyn	Report	6 Jan 2013 21:30
	Moth balls remind me of my Grandmothers funeral coat and fox fur :-D Tec
Member Since: October 2008 Posts: 13,848 Send Message	StrayKitten	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:50
	in america they do polo "mints" called life savers, and they smell more like germoline than germoline nowadays haah
	Researching: It wasn't me
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:47
	crumbs - I thought this was a thread about Vaseline for a minute - don't let's go there again ;-) ;-)
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: October 2012 Posts: 11,197 Send Message	GinN	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:45
	Lol ! Can just imagine you furtive Germoline sniffers. :-D :-D
	Researching: Anything and everything that takes my fancy.
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 1,248 Send Message	Ron2	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:42
	I still use it for cuts and grazes - works a treat
	Researching: Stuarts - Birmingham, Staffordshire. Beats Notts and Lincs
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 23,596 Send Message	JoyBoroAngel	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:27
	it smells like euthimol tooth paste
	Researching: The birth of Middlesbrough
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:25
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	I know I stood sniffing it for ages, not the same effect :-(
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,822 Send Message	DazedConfused	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:25
	Probably does smell as strongly and the same, we just use less now. I remember plastering it on a cut, now I would just smear on a small amount.
	Researching: We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!
Member Since: October 2008 Posts: 13,848 Send Message	StrayKitten	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:19
	no its not as strog smelling, :-\|
	Researching: It wasn't me
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	6 Jan 2013 20:12
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	I think smells bring back memories. I used to love the smell of Germoline when I was younger, it used to be in a little round tin. My Grannie kept in a box in the bathroom and I would open it just to smell it, what a strange child I must have been. I brought a tube yesterday and it does not smell the same :-S