Long lost family
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oggbashan
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Through Genes Reunited, Friends Reunited and Ancestry.co.uk (.com in US).
I entered what we knew of the family tree into Genes Reunited and through their Hot Matches we received contacts from some cousins on my side of the family and on my wife's side as well.
We are now in contact with over 30 relations we didn't know we had.
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starrkers
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My brother made contact with someone on Genes Reunited who was building a family tree of my mum's family. He got sidetracked by my dad's family name - a hyphenated beastie - and traced it back to its origin in 1700s in England. I'd been trying to trace it using the net but a lot of UK records aren't online yet.
oggbashan
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I knew too many of my relations already. At my parents' Golden Wedding celebrations we had 400 people related to the happy couple.
Through Genes Reunited I think about 90% of the Hot Matches are from people who are NOT proven to be related to us but share ancestors with similar names.
Once you trace back to the 1700s and look for descendants of siblings then the numbers of possible relations can become unmanageable. For example I share a common set of ancestors with a well-known UK newsreader but the line diverged from a large family recorded in the 1841 census. I'm descended from one of the brothers. The newsreader is descended from another brother. If I include all the descendants of "my" ancestor brother, his wife and their offspring, and all the branches I have a total of 2,500 people. The newsreader probably has a similar number from the other brother.
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john-the-author
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Last year, I helped a friend of mine find her long-lost aunt, mostly by doing name/age research on a variety of the names databases. The one that gave us success was the one that lists the person's name, age, and all the places they've lived before, so you can tell if ~THIS~ Jenny Anderson is the one who lived in Beaumont, TX; that sorta thing.
