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Cynthia

Cynthia Report 31 Aug 2025 08:38

Today, I have opened a message of thanks from someone I was helping FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! :-S :-S

Cx :-)

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KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 31 Aug 2025 09:12

I think it might be Cynthia :-D

I once got a message from someone I had helped 12 years before. I couldn't even remember them or the query I had helped with :-S

Kath. x

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 31 Aug 2025 09:15

How strange. did they explain why they have only just written.

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Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 31 Aug 2025 11:57

Maybe they had a problem with 'hotmail'.
When it became ''microsoft' I couldn't get into it.

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 31 Aug 2025 12:48

You are talking about GR here :-S

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 31 Aug 2025 14:05

Apparently, they have been busy! :-D :-D

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 1 Sep 2025 14:08

Cynthia, that is a long delay !

Longest times on GR boards for me was a reply after 5 years.

Back in the days of more communication by letter, I wrote to a 2nd cousin in 1997, who I'd never met, but his parents had visited my parents, when I was a child.
No reponse, until a phone call out of the blue in 2005.