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Finding relatives

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mjgriff

mjgriff Report 12 Dec 2012 16:41

Started looking for my past in Jan 2012 and found some interesting things like occupations of grandparents all linked to the sea 2 being master mariners then found that my 5x great grandmother was born Ann Fox sister to Samuel Fox the inventor of the paragon umbrella then being able to go back even further down this line through wills of Derbyshire listed on the net back to 1640 whilst doing this i also discovered living cousins in the USA in which we keep in contact through Facebook met one of my USA cousins in Oct & again in Nov visited another cousin in Liverpool we keep in contact through email a couple of times a month only one trouble there is so much info i keep finding its extreemely adictive