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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	26 Nov 2007 22:29
	Since I'm in Canada, I usually can't be any help to anyone looking for people who didn't live or die at a time that got them - or at least a child or parent - into the GRO index or a census in the UK, as that info is currently available. Being a whiz at tricking search engines into doing my bidding, I am quite often able to do that much. For people looking for someone who is currently living, though, I'm not much use at all. But last night, I tried my luck at helping someone in my hemisphere who was looking for his birth mother in England. And with a bit of luck and some of that search engine wizardry, I found current contact info for his birth mother's family in very short order, and very shortly after that -- as you can see from Paul's post here -- he was talking to her by phone. I just wanted to say: feels damned good!! Now if someone can only find me some descendants of my great-grandfather's siblings ... anybody out there know any McCocks? ;)
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