Find Living Relatives

What a fantastic outcome for you Roy. It couldn't have happened at a better time of year.

The next thing for you to look forward to is to meet your new found family. Even if you don't immediately 'click' you know you aren't alone.

Merry Christmas :-D

update on my update, my brother rang me, and a couple of hours later my sister did the same, I am 55, my sister is 65 and my brother is 67, up until a week ago I had no idea about them,so again a million thanks to you all.

the only way to find out why your grandfather died so young is purchase his death certificate at a cost of £9.25

Go to
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

then once registered, enter the details from the gro index as given earlier. On one of the pages it askings if the GRO reference it known. Click Yes.

ARCHIBALD D
Last name STEWART
Death quarter 4 ie Oct-Nov-Dec
Death year 1926
District IPSWICH
Volume 4A
Page 1074

Also, could anyone tell me how come my grandfather died so young. archibald stewart born ipswich 1902 to 1926, thanks

Just to update,a few days ago I only had knowledge of three blood relatives, but now thanks to all you lovely people, I have four half siblings,I now know my grandfathers name and my grandmothers full name and a wee bit of her history, I also have an aunt, I still cannot absolutely confirm any of this until I actually talk to someone but a massive thanks to you all!!!!!!! And please, any other info is much appreciated :-D

joonie,
ok got it now, thanks

ah now Roy ... when you get a private message, you do need to reply by private message rather than here, or the person may be unlikely to see your reply ... and also to keep the conversation private

if you got a private message allowing you to see the tree, there should be a 'Reply' button above it

hy Sar young,
thanks for allowing me to look at your incredible tree, unfortunately the florence buckeldee I am researching is not on your tree.
have a cool yule! :-)

hy joonie.
yes i did as rose suggested and have sent a message.
I was just taken by surprise when she mentioned my "half sister", that was news to me because up until a couple of days ago i was certain of only three blood relatives, my father, his mother who i only met twice, and my brother who was separated from me when I was about 5 years old,
I actually have a bit of a tree now,I only had a twig two days ago, so happy days already, again, thanks so much for taking the time to help,I hope to get a certain match and maybe actually talk to some of my own blood very soon.(not including my own kids)

since I'm here, I'll explain again :-)

you can only look at another member's tree with permission

it is the 'search all member trees' facility that shows whether a particular person is in someone else's tree, without showing the tree itself

did you do the search that Rose suggested?

'Go to Search at the top and Select "Search All Member Trees". Look for your father and you will see your half sister has him in her tree on here.'

that is what you need to do, search for your father by name and year of birth, and you will see the result with the tree owner's name next to it, and you then click on the 'find out more' button beside the name to send a message

rose, how can i look at at "my half sisters tree", were you able to do so?,,,,, how do I do that>

Sent P.M to Roy , address of one half sibling

well joonie, that is soooo helpful,thanks for the explanations,i will try not to myther too many people with private messages etc etc,
I have loads of info to be getting my teeth into already, so thanks to you all for the help,,,, and please keep it coming,,,,cheers

Roy, we have all sorts of troubles here with new members who don't know how to work the system, and instead of adding their replies to the message thread here as you have done, they click on the name of the person they are replying to

... and that sends a private message that no one else can see, and the member who receives it is often left scratching their head about 'no, my grandmother married John Smith'

because many old members here post in many threads a week ... and a reply like that may relate to a post made weeks ago!

so that's what Rose's 'user name' means - to stop people clicking on her name instead of adding a reply in the thread :-)

(it's confusing of course, because these days we don't really click 'add reply', we just type in the box at the bottom of the messages)

to answer anything anybody says in the thread, just do as you have cleverly been doing, type your reply right here

(unless it is info about living people, which is the reason Elizabeth sent you info privately for instance)


now as to what Rose meant - go up to the top of this web page and you will see SEARCH, click on that and then click SEARCH ALL MEMBER TREES

do the search there for your father with his name and year of birth

when you see him listed as being in someone's tree, click the FIND OUT MORE button next to the person's name, and it will open a form to send that person a message

the site will send an automatic notification to the email address in their account at this website

if the person still has a valid email address in their account at this website (which too often is not the case), they will get that notice and they will be able to reply to your message, even if they do not have a paid subscription at present

hope that helps!

can anyone please explain the post from "clic add reply" if i send a message to that poster will it get to the person who sent it, and is her name rose or is that some sort of generic name for this website,,,, sorry for my ignorance

Go to Search at the top and Select "Search All Member Trees". Look for your father and you will see your half sister has him in her tree on here.

Rose

pm sent 4 possible children of royston

There are 4 children from his first marriage.

Go here:

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Select births, put in Stewart for the Surname and the Ablitt where it says Spouse/Mother surname.

Rose

No was looking at his sister marriage to a mr Arnold and possible children for them

so that would mean i have a half brother, it would be a heluva coincidence if they were not my dad and his first wife