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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: September 2006 Posts: 16 Send Message	Alice	Report	18 May 2008 19:09
	My husband's family has a "tradition" of adding the name Furniss to all the family descendants whose real surname is actually Potter. There is a family story that they have to do this as there was some relative called Furniss who only had daughters and one of the Potters promised to carry on the family name. The earliest record of Furniss is in the 1840s and the Potters came from the Leeds area in Yorkshire. Does anyone know anything else about this Furniss family? Would love to find out the true story, Alice Potter

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