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ask the local family history society if they would like it,
you can donate them here in Norfolk.

I have also done this for friends and can understand how annoying it can be.
One of my neighbours was brought up in a home in Scotland as her young mother died in a fire.
I found that she had a brother a year younger than her and went to a lot of trouble ,even getting in touch with,Salvation Army to trace him,but they needed her application for it and would cost £20 .
This was 10 years ago and nothing was ever done.
I've done others but that one sticks in my mind as if it had been me I would have had to follow that up to see if he was alive.
I suppose it did keep me busy while I was housebound looking after my sick husband who watched every sport on TV.
I do find searching fascinating though..must get back into doing more as I've had a few distractions since I can get out more these days. :-)

I'd be pretty cross in the circumstances, as well!

Slightly differently, I spent weeks putting together and printing out my mothers FT with associated documents to give to my aunt - she'd found copies of photos which I didn't have.

She passes it to my cousin who is nearly the same age. At the aunts funeral, the cousin agreed that she did have it, but it was buried under a pile of 'stuff' in the spare room. Ho hum!

I´m in the process of doing a tree for a friend. It was supposed to be a project for the winter, but I couldn´t resist starting.
I did warn her at the outset that I would expect her to pay for any certs etc that were needed.
Hope fully she & her Mum will be pleased with the result.

Oh dear, Sue, sounds to me like she just fancied it on the spur of the moment, perhaps not realising how time consuming it can be. People who are not into family trees have no idea.....my sister-in-law was genuinely horrified when I told her how many hours I'd spent on her tree. She asked me how much a professional would have charged and, in fact, to this day I don't think she really believed me when I told her. :-0

Sharon and Karen,She saw I was doing my family tree and she asked me to do hers.

I certainly wouldn't have offered as I was busy with my own.

I don't know any of her rellies so it will be going to the records office for their perusal to see if they want it but thats a couple of hours away from where I live.

Will ring the records office first.

Did she actually ask you to do her tree, or did you offer and she agreed because she knows you are keen on family history?
I ask the question because I offered to do a friend's tree because her Scottish background sounded interesting to me. She agreed, but I have to admit I realised later that she wasn't that interested. It's a bitter pill to swallow when some of us are SO enthusiastic we find it hard to accept that others just aren't :-(
OR
Might it be that she gave that answer to her ex daughter in law simply because she didn't really want to help her?

Anyway, in answer to your question, I would offer your hard work to someone else in her family who IS interested
Or
offer to someone doing a one-name study, look for the name/s under Guild of One Name Studies
Or
if it contains a good amount of local historical interest offer it to the relevant local museum.

Good luck :-)

P.S. love your avatar

Why did you do it? Did she ask you to?

Would any of her relatives be interested?

I have taken nearly a year to trace my friends ancestors even sending for different certs and 2 certs from America.

Now why I am annoyed is because when I was stopping with her for a couple of days her ex daughter in law phoned from America to ask for details of my friends grandfather/grandmother's marriage and the birth of their son in America.
All the ex - daughter in wanted was names, year and thw town they were married in as she could go collect a copy of both certs as she is doing the family tree over in America..

Well the reply was """"I AREN'T INTERESTED IN DEAD PEOPLE"""""""

I must admit I blew my top when she got off the phone asking her WHY she had asked me to do her family tree and then said she wasn't interested in dead people.

I have all the paperwork and certs (she hasn't paid a penny towards the cost) and now I feel like just shredding it all.

What would you do with all the family tree paperwork/certs?????