Success Stories

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Penhale Camp, Perranporth, Cornwall, bombed 1940 -

Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 27 Jul 2010 01:13

Many, many thanks for the kind and generous help of the Genes Community on the Message Boards!!!

With your help we found the relatives of soldiers who had been killed in 1940 but who had never known where their brothers, fathers, uncles were buried, nor that the local community in Perranporth had held a remembrance service for them every year for the last 70 years.

There are still three soldiers whose relatives are yet to be found but it took a very short time for the Genes Community to find strong leads that tracked down relatives of the other four.

The messages from the relatives who were found have been quite heart-rending. I cannot thank you enough.

I have kept a blog and website about this here search here:
http://perranporthveteransmissing.posterous.com and have included a link to the Genes Reunited "summary" search thread:
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1227509

MANY, MANY THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND YOUR GENEROUS GIVING OF YOUR TIME AND EXPERTISE,

Best wishes,
Liz Panton