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Living Relatives

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Madmeg

Madmeg Report 21 Oct 2009 00:50

There has recently been an increase in the number of people wanting information about living relatives, typically after the mid 1900s or before.

Just to say that finding such relatives is made trickier by the fact that some will have gone away to University, left home for other reasons, married people from other nationalities, or not married at all, been divorced and posibly re-married, etc. etc.

Finding them can be very tricky.

If you are searching for such a person, please give as much information about them as possible, far more than might be needed to find a relative from the mid 1800s.

Also do not expect to necessarily receive a reply on your thread. Whilst much of the information re living relatives is in theory in the public domain, it is not wise to broadcast it as it could contravene the Data Protection Act (UK to my knowledge but probably pretty global), and could cause embarassment. So please confine info about living relatives to Private Messages where possible.

That makes it even more difficult to find a living relative, and the chances of find them are much reduced.

Margaret