Success Stories

from my cousin who is in town, and we're going to meet up for lunch. Cousin: J, the grandson of my great-grandmother's brother.

The second one of the numerous cousins I have 'met' through GR, L, is the great-granddaughter of my great-grandmother's sister. So L, J and I all share ancestors who are grx3 grandparents to L and me, and grx2 grandparents to J.

My grx3 grandparents had 9 kids:

Mary Ann
Mary Jane
Eliza Ann
Eliza Jane (mine)
Anna Maria (L's)
Georgina
Virginia
Tryphena
William (J's)

I figure someone gave them a baby-names book just when they thought they'd run out.

L met J through GR, when she searched a little more intensively than I had -- I hadn't realized there was a baby brother William in the family. She passed him on to me -- J and I both in Canada and L is in the US.

(Sad bit of the story -- when my dad's parents immigrated to Canada after WWI, my grandmother didn't have much contact with family back home, except a niece who visited her in Canada decades later, and whom my mum and I visited in Northamptonshire 13 years ago. My grandmother died a year later at age 98. For most of the time since WWII, her first cousin was living in the States a stone's throw from the interstate highway we drove down on family vacations to Florida, and she never knew.)

So this is my first in-the-flesh meet with a long-lost cousin, found through GR or elsewhere on the net. He and his wife are in town doing genealogical research in archives here, as it happens.

And now I have to go find the envelope of photos my mum sent me and I have never got around to getting copied for him ...