Success Stories

My story began when I discovered I was illegitmate, born to a Canadian serviceman at the end of WW2. I had no legal right then to search but it never stopped me trying. I wrote to the Canadian Archives in 1990 and had a reply to say that my father had died in 1979 in Nova Scotia. End of story you might think. Goodness no, with all the help and encouragement I have received through tracing other family members for my ancestry tree I never stopped trying to find different ways to get details of my father. Eventually I wrote to the Vital Statistics Bureau in Nova Scotia for my fathers death certificate. A wealth of info was shown, parents, dob, dod, place of birth and death and wife's name. A fellow geneaologist living in Nova Scotia who is connected to me via my grandma wrote for the obituary out of the local paper. Lo and behold, it stated my father was survived by three sons, a wife and a brother all in Nova Scotia. So with the help of my friends I placed an advert in the paper of a trying to trace. Bingo, in the space of two days, I was contacted by the eldest son. I told him who I was, where I was and my story. He responded that he had always known that there was someone else and now we are complete. My hubby and I went over this year to meet up with all three brothers and their families. We hugged a lot, wept even more, but are now firm friends. Plans are to return to Canada next year to revisit and renew the threads of siblinghood.

If it wasn't for the help of comrades who like me have been trying to trace family members, giving advice and knowledge of other web sites in which to look, we would remain blinkered and in the dark about our heritage.

Thanks again all you GR members and 'friends' of geneaology.
Annieb