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Apologies for not replying sooner, just got the message early am today and have been at work since then. Good news is we have found the Margaret Ewen with your fantastic help and two people now in their 70s are being reunited by phone as we speak. Can't tell you how excited we all are. Very many thanks to all who posted replies to my thread.

You were busy calling the number I gave you and having a telephone reunion!

Got your PM, and you are most welcome, and best wishes to all of you.

Hi Elizabeth and everyone
what can i say but except
I thankyou you and your other half from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work
And everyone who helped
this is so fantastic and a very emotional time for me and my family
and without you and everyone who helped we would not be reuniting my dad and his sister who he hasnt seen since he was 4 and she was 2
my dad is 80 this year
we are all busy trying to sort things out but hope to reunite them as soon as possible
You are two truly amazing people and i hope we all keep in conact as without you this would not be happening
Thankyou xx

I still wish I understood what you got up to, PollyPoppet ...

It really can help to know the kind of info that was found/sent, even just as a tip for future searching.

all i sent Elizabeth
was i thought her maiden name was wilkins
and to ask if she posted this thread helping me

Ah - nope, she was the doppelganger. ;)

It was very lucky Margaret had all those middle names - that's what found the marriage and births to tie to the surname for Gillian!

n
this up for Janey
who also played a part in this
so a big thankyou Janey
xxx

Sorry to say, PollyPoppet, not "also". ;)

Elizabeth's lovely PM:


Thank you so much for the information you have provided Janey. You had exactly the right person and I spoke to [Margaret's daughter]'s husband, Margaret's son in law this morning before I went to work. We have now confirmed all and a brother and half sister are being put in touch with one another by phone this evening, Margaret in Essex and [Margaret's brother] [in Arbroath, East Scotland. [Margaret's brother]has not seen her since she was 2 or 3 years old and Margaret was so young she didn't know if she even had any siblings. It's a great outcome - thank you again for all you've done, it is most appreciated.


The trick really was in all those middle names of Margaret's!

Hi Janey
Sorry i stand corrected
without you providing this none of this would have been possible
So once again
I send you the biggest Thankyou from me my family
And my dad x

PollyPoppet you have made my head spin!!

I have just figured out that you're Wendy - and this is what your own lovely PM was about!

All along I had had no idea that this was *your* family!! I thought you were just popping in to help out like the rest of us. And then I didn't know who this Wendy was who sent me the lovely PM ... with no names in it. ;)

Well this is double great, then! And further proof of genealogy karma -- you hang around here helping other people out long enough, and somebody will do it for you.

You and Elizabeth have found your family members, and I'm all sorted. Phew.

Oh so very true Janey
my head is spinning to lol
we have two very tearful people at the moment in fact all of us are
this is all so fantastic and still seems so unreal but we are doing this slowly for the two of them so everyone has time for it to sink in
but we are all over the moon
wont be leaving the site as i enjoy being here