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Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 1 Send Message	Shaun	Report	30 Jun 2009 20:06
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 1 Send Message	I have been subscribing to Genes Reunited for some years now and find it a fascinating vehicle for finding relatives about whom I had no previous knowledge, sharing their family trees and also finding links with history and with distant, and sometimes famous, cousins from the past. My most successful and recent foray has been into Tudor and Stuart times in England and America. I have found that many of my distant relatives were amongst the first settlers in the USA and were important in the development of the early Colonies. Amongst these I have found that I am distantly related to Daniel Boone, the American pioneer. On the home front I have delved into my Tudor cousins (somewhat distant) and find that I am related to both King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I of England - not that they would have been as impressed as I am. The only disturbing factor is that I also find that there were an amazing number of persons in my tree who ended their lives by losing their heads - literally. I find that researching into my more distant relatives in this way is like a voyage into history and has stimulated my interest into this fascinating era.