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Dear Friends,
I hope this story will be of interest to you. For me it was utterly amazing and hardly believable, but it is perfectly true.
About fifteen years ago my late wife and I were touring in the North of Scotland and one evening in a pub, quite by chance, we met a Swedish couple. We became very good friends and regularly visited each other in Stockholm and in Birkenhead and we were able to show them the Lake District and North Wales etc.
Three years ago, my wife having died shortly before, I was invited to the wedding of their eldest daughter to a young man whose father came from the Isle of Wight and who had married a Swedish woman and gone to live in Stockholm. The groom's name was Dennis Primmer.
It wasn't until after that that I started using Genes Reunited to build my family tree and when I started to trace my late wife's ancestry, her maiden name was Wimbleton by the way, I got back to a Phillip Wimbleton 1821 in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight who had married a woman called Fanny Primmer who had a brother called Edward Primmer.
Guess what! ... When I researched Edward's descendants, where did my searches end up but with the same Dennis Primmer whose wedding I had been to in Stockholm. So my children and grandchildren must have some of the same genes as my Swedish friends' son-in-law and grandchildren.
Torbjörn and Gunilla, those are the names of my Swedish friends, had often said that I was like one of the family. Well now, thanks to Genes Reunited, I really am a relative, if only by marriage. But what a fantastic, millions to one chance that such a relationship could occur.
Thanks for your time, John Walsh - (now alias Ragnar the Viking - I often wondered why I like being in small boats in rough seas!)
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