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Fantastic!

:-D :-D

What a fantastic Christmas present.

An enormous Thank You to you all for all your help and encouragement over my search. As you know I have now found my Sister and Brother and am so happy as I have been looking for 36 years. We have so much to catch up on and we are all very excited about getting together, hopefully before Christmas.

Thank you all again and Merry Christmas

Erica :-)

Brilliant news Claudia's OH!

In case Erica doesn't check her threads any more, send her a personal message by clicking on her name.

As long as she hasn't changed her email address since May when she last posted, she will receive a notification from GR that you are trying to contact her.

Even if her sub has expired, she will still be able to reply to a PM.

Hi Erica - second attempt to post message on this board. I am Claudia's husband - she is very keen to make contact with you. Please respond when you can. Thank you

Yes it was the Dorset address, will now try the Swansea one.

That is a pity.
Presumably that was the Dorset address (from locater?)

Are you going to follow up the Swansea 192.com?

Hi everyone, received a letter today, unfortunately it is not the right Christian, will keep looking!

Thanks everyone, will keep waiting, probably too impatient and had my hopes up too high!

A week is indeed a short time, and people do go on holiday etc.

Could you say which address (which town) you wrote your letter to?

Thanks

If you send a facebook message to someone who is not a friend already it goes to the "other" messages in their inbox and are not notified at the top of the screen.

If they do not know about this they may not bother to look there

I see Christian has two trees did you send the message to the one with a membership number of 11 million which would mean he opened that in the last couple of years?...It is also not a good idea to ask to view someones tree before you have had any sort of contact

Erica....

Dont worry yet... its still early in your search....

Will keep fingers crossed for you...

Hi everyone, it has been a week since I sent my letter, it is with great sadness that I must report that I have not had a reply. I have also not had a reply from my request to share Christian's family tree or my facebook message to his wife.

Christian Thomas born in 1974, Kensington, has his tree on here.
You could try to make contact with him (Search/Search All Trees, above)

If locater has sent you alternative information for his birth, you could also look for anyone with that birth on here.
Similarly for his sister.

You did not say when (1943?) and where your Mother was born, but you could also look to see if she is in anyone's tree on here.

Good morning Erica I believe I have an address for you, I will private message it...

As far as what happened after my Mother's death, I have no idea what happened to them, I did try when I was 21 to go and visit where the last address was but the flat was empty. I also tried to find them then but in those days as a half sister I was not allowed any information.

Thanks everyone, unfortunately I only had the original names etc that I posted. The reason for this is that I was 14 when she died, I had not seen her for 9 months and I was not allowed to go to her funeral. My father had asked for contact details but the man she was living with refused to give them. I have asked my father if he can remember anything and he seems to think that the my mother's partner was called Chris Miller, but we are not sure this is right. I have looked at the corresponding with the surname Miller and I can't find anything think that the Thomas surname maybe correct as in the 1970's it was the norm to take the mother's name if not married.
I can't begin to thank you all enough for all your help.

I did not need the birth cert. I had more than six connecting facts; therefore making it somewhat more than an educated guess:

Mother's surname, mother's maiden name, dates of births of both babies, names of each child, registration in area where mother's death was registered, one has to use one's common sense too.

What the hell is your beef, why the need to pick apart every last word I put up on this board, life is very short, even if you find you have little to do at times, you really should make the best of it.

As I have stated before 'when you pay my subs you can tell me how to do things', I have been doing this a very long time and know from others I have helped that ifs, buts & maybes do not amount to knowledge, they are 'ifs buts and maybe's', being informed of lots of red herrings is hardly helpful; it just sends them off in unnecessary directions.

You pull apart what I state and yet:
"What if the mother lied about being married, there is another surname of Bailey, oh there are some Thomas/William's in 'WALES' with similar christian names", how on earth can that help anyone.... Not to mention making them older than they are to make a marriage fit, oh of coarse they 'might have married young!

Thomas/Williams combo in WALES; come on, that is as good as saying our Pat Duffy nick name Paddy may be related to Patrick Duffy in Ireland, after all his nick name is also Paddy...

Yes I too can have opinions on what I think of how you do things, however I have the decency/respect to keep them to myself...

These boards are to help other's in the best way we know how, it is not for any of us to pull apart other's methods, we all have different ways of doing things, you stick to yours and I will stick to mine.....

To Be Noted all said within this post is in reply to comments aimed at me, not as a criticism of others, we are all entitled to do as we so choose....

Erica,
There are 2 possible marriages for Christian, in Poole in 1989, and in Swansea in 2002.
Has anyone sent you details of those, and has anyone suggested what has happened to Claudia?
Do you know what happened to the children after your Mother's death? Where or with whom they went to live?
Thank-you

Added:
There is a possible marriage of Claudia J Thomas, to Mr Wootton, in Buckinghamshire in 1996, and then Claudia Wootton, no middle initial, showing on 192.com in Swansea, but too young.
It is just the coincidence of Swansea that makes it interesting.

One can stick to facts, but in helping others one needs if, buts and maybes. The more knowledge they have the better informed they are. This allows them to draw their own educated opinions.