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Mark

Mark Report 5 Jun 2009 12:58

If your ever thinking of giving up because information isnt there please keep at it. yesterday after 3yrs ive made contact with a guy who has photos of my great grandfather and his sibblings

Charlie chuckles

Charlie chuckles Report 5 Jun 2009 13:02

Brill. I've had pics given me like that that even my dad didn't know exsisted--makes it all so worth while, I cried when I recently got given a photo of my gt granparents with all of their children, including my 2 year old granda, it was such an overwhelming moment, i felt a right nit, but fellow genealogists will know what i mean
Carol x

GranOfOzRubySlippers

GranOfOzRubySlippers Report 5 Jun 2009 13:07

I have recently had contact with a distant cousin. He sent me a photo of my great grandmother aged about a year and her mother and father. Must say I was also in tears.

Yes it is worth while.

Gail

Julia

Julia Report 5 Jun 2009 13:55

Last year, I was loaned some family photos, which I copied. One was of my grandmother, when she was quite young, and her sisters. I had heard of this photo, but never seen it. It was taken after the WW1, because, superimposed in the centre of the girls, was their only brother, in uniform, and he had been killed in 1918, a month before armistic.
I had it enlarged, mounted and framed professionally, at the cost of £56, and it is on my staircase. I very often "talk" to them when passing by.
Another photo, it says on the back it was sent to my gran, is of a lady who is a bit of a mystery. Long story, but I think it is of their aunt, my gt.gt. aunt. The likeness to my youngest daughter (38), is uncanny, and did more than take my breath away. All the photos made me weep.
The morale of the story has to be, keep,keep on trying. It is all out there, but sometimes we do not know where to look
Julia in Derbyshire

Researching:
Turner Cambs/.Northants, Singapore and Penang,Trengrove Singapore and Penang, Arnull (Champion Race Horse Breeders & Trainers 'Oleander')Germany and Denmark

FLUMP

FLUMP Report 5 Jun 2009 16:00

I also kept at it and found i had 2 half brothers and 1sister,sadly we never got to meet,although I think they could still be alive, but in their eighties.Another TIP if a thought keeps coming back act on it, I had a niggling memory,of a row my father and i had when i was a teenager,and he shouted at me "God your like your MOTHER,she passed her kids off as her brothers and sisters! cant remember what awful thing I'd done,but it took years for that sentence to come to light again,cos as with all rows no one listens.So Stick at it.good luck