Pandad
16-03-2008, 10:56 PM
We have all been through it. The email pops into your inbox "Family Connection for So and So"; great - someone else is researching the same name. All excited, you read the email, check out the data, and then send the reply "Sorry - No Connection".
I got one of these email's last week, got excited, checked the data, found a match, sent a positive reply. Turns out the individual who contacted me is directly related to the brother of my father's mother. We are both getting our trees up to date to establish ‘how many times removed we are’. I, in fact we, have both completed branches of our trees and filled in all sorts of holes that had been hanging around for years.
We are now putting a research plan together – divide and concur, cut out search duplication. Find the data and get the other individual to verify the findings. Magic.|woohoo|
The moral of the story is, never give up, after nearly 10 years of research I eventually struck lucky. Maybe it will be your turn next.
Rod
I got one of these email's last week, got excited, checked the data, found a match, sent a positive reply. Turns out the individual who contacted me is directly related to the brother of my father's mother. We are both getting our trees up to date to establish ‘how many times removed we are’. I, in fact we, have both completed branches of our trees and filled in all sorts of holes that had been hanging around for years.
We are now putting a research plan together – divide and concur, cut out search duplication. Find the data and get the other individual to verify the findings. Magic.|woohoo|
The moral of the story is, never give up, after nearly 10 years of research I eventually struck lucky. Maybe it will be your turn next.
Rod