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I have recently been searching for a family who’s memorabilia I had acquired at an antique market, I only started my search about a month ago, trying to find any living relatives to be able to give them back their memorabilia. I got in contact with Wolverhamptons local newspaper and was delighted with the amount of response that i had. I have now been in contact with the relatives and should be sending them their photos and family memories back to where they be long and not in strangers hands soon. Thank you for all your support I am interested in this phenomenon of searching and finding relatives, alive or long since passed away. I have been fascinated by just how important some of the searches may be to affecting peoples lives and how some are just simply for the enjoyment of a hobby, I am an art student and would be grateful if any one would like to share their own personal response to why they have been connected with searching relatives, how important they find the need to have Evan the smallest piece of information about past relatives way back in the 16th centaury and so on? Have you become addicted or is it just a fascination to see what you may find?

hi Amanda,
For me the importance of finding my family is to know who I belong to, My mother died without telling me anything about my family she must have had her reasons for not telling me I suspect it was because I was born illagitimate in 1948 and she was seperated from her family. Nobody was able to tell me who my father was and my mother chose not to tell me and without a name it was impossible to find out so my maiden name Davis was all I had to go on.
It is a need to know at least one side of me I could follow up, To know why I like the things I do why I look the way I do, All my life it has affected me it is something that I have missed out on a loving family. And I am coming up to my 60th birthday and time is running out, I would just like to know that Alians did not drop me off. The only information I have found out is my grandparents name is Jeanette gregory and alfred davis and getting their names was so precious and very emotional it was as if I could feel them as if I could reach out an touch them they was real, My family, names I could relate to, it felt so good and thats what makes me want to persue my search, for the first time in my life I felt part of someones life part of a family and who knows I might get really lucky and actually meet a living relative. fingers crossed.
It has been nice chating to you and when you chat to your mum and grandparents just think how lucky you are to have the privalige of a family and spoil them.
The reason I responded to your message is because I am an artist too, good luck in the future.
Love Shirley.x