Success Stories

I am relatively new to this site, although not to researching my family tree, but it was very hard going from out here in Oz until the Scottish Records Office went on-line and now that I have found GenesReunited. Immediately on posting my tree on to the site, I used the name search facility and emailed a couple of people where there seemed to be a common name in our trees. The names were the same but turned out not to be the same person. However, one of the people I contacted passed on some information she had gleaned from a search of the churchyard in the very small Scottish village from where I came. From this information, I was able to identify common ancestors from the turn of the 18th Century, as the people with the same name turned out to be cousins! Many thanks to Diane Jardine for sharing this information and to a couple of other people who have unhesitatingly opened their trees to me. I hope that the information they have provided me and further research on my part will reveal further common ancestry!