Success Stories

I have been researching my father's family for the last 25 years, alone in the world, so it seemed. Last year I joined genesconnected (now Genes Reunited) and within the last 12 months I have found five cousins and their families, all descendents of my grandfather's sisters. (My grandfather died when my father was only 12 years old, so we knew very little about his siblings.) Two of them live locally in the Merseyside area, one is in Anglesey, one in Cornwall, and the latest connection is in New Zealand! I've already met up with the locals and the one from Anglesey - most of them had just begun their family history, so I was able to get them back to 1776 via my research. In return I've now got a photograph of my great-grandmother who died in 1924 and found that my father's only sister bore a striking resemblance to her. My father's half-sister, by my grandfather's first wife looked so like one of her first cousins that I thought it was my aunt. I am so grateful to Genes Reunited for putting me in contact with so many relatives after all these years, and would say to anyone who is hesitant about joining up with you " Go for it. No other way, in my lengthy experience, can help fill in the gaps in your research. Thank you! Patricia McCourt