My 6yr journey has ended - I hope & pray!!

[cristol]

Oh Colin

I’m so glad you have resolved this so decisively after all your hard work and anguish.
We’ve all been on the roller coaster with you and how wonderful to have got to the bottom of all those clues and theories and have your suppositions and beliefs verified so completely.
It’s easy to say “how lucky” but as the quotation goes – It’s funny, the harder I work – the luckier I get” and no one could have worked harder than you on this. Ok maybe there was an element of fortune in finding the letter at this time, but then again, somebody very integral to this story may have been helping you !?
Well done you
Lesley

[Jonesy]

As has already been said, your tenacity is impressive, although from personal experience that there is an element of not being able to give up, when trying to discover one’s own past (or that of a loved one).


Anyway, congrats. You’ve inspired me not give up on my own brickwall (that of my grandfather’s real identity), which is also based on his illegitimate birth.

[thecouch]

Hi Colin,

What an unbelievable story - truly an "Ancestors in the Attic" type of story! (For those members who don't know, in Canada, there is a family history show on tv called Ancestors in the Attic). Congratulations on your tenacity to stick with things even when they made no sense whatsoever. Your story also certainly brings new meaning to the expression "family time". Perhaps a good title for your book/movie would be 'The Pocket Watch'

Cheers,
thecouch