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Message for my sister Caroline

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ErikaH

ErikaH Report 25 Jan 2025 23:00

Your post is unclear in one aspect. Was she adopted?

If she contacted you through GR, her message should be in your inbox. Try sending a reply

AnneMack

AnneMack Report 25 Jan 2025 22:55

I had contact with her through the adoption agency in SA a few years ago. But they have since closed down. They advised back then to write a letter to her and if she wished she would contact back again. Which I did but now they're closed, how will she ever know?
She had contacted me before by seeing a post in hoping she will again.
I have no surname for her and yes this was a long shot.
We're all getting older ...

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 24 Jan 2025 10:29

If not in SA, where was she living, and when, when you did have contact and was there any mention of a marriage?
If you think she was in the UK you could look at the Electoral Rolls on here, but for some years now we have been able to opt out of the public roll.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 24 Jan 2025 10:16

The ONLY record of her on GR is in your tree. Did she give you permission to include her?
Why do you imagine she will see your message kn here?

You say ‘last known in UK’…..when? Which county? Was her name still Mackenzie?

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 24 Jan 2025 09:01

Welcome to the boards.

I am sorry for your troubles.

This seems a strange place to be sending a message to your sister ( please remove. her date of birth). If you know she is a member of a genes then please send her a pm.

If you believe she is still in South Africa then you will need to look into S A resources.

AnneMack

AnneMack Report 24 Jan 2025 02:40

Caroline last known in U.K.
Born Cape Town South Africa to Patrica Grace Mackenzie and Anthony Rupert Mackenzie.
We have touched base in the past via your adopted brother, through the adoption agency in Cape Town (now closed).
My reason for this post is that we are not getting any young. Our Eldest brother who was adopted out has passed. Your next youngest sister has now been diagnosed with dementia and may not be with us for much longer.
Myself and our youngest brother are both well and in good health. We want for nothing and are happily living in Australia.
We do not want to disrupt any lives, just a gentle hello, how are you?
Please feel free to touch base.
Your youngest sister Anne Mackenzie