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Well blow me down with a feather, I have just had information from Ancestry that I have a message. The first time in over 2 years they have informed me of such a thing.

Was it worth the wait? ;-)

Actually it was, thanks. Someone in Oz wants some info that I can give.

I have met three very nice cousins - two with whom I share (different) 2xgreat grandparents and one with whom I share a 4xgreat grandmother - and numerous more peripherally related people, all of whom contacted me after seeing my notes/corrections in census records at Ancestry

that is the main reason I prefer Ancestry to other sites - not the quality of its transcriptions! but the fact that you can fix them at will and thus both help out other people and give them a way to find and contact you :-)

I have also just been corresponding with a lovely person I found on a tree search, who shares 2xgreat grandparents with my tall dude

I wrote to her on a whim because I think tall dude's dad, who is 92, widowed and disabled and lives in a care facility, would love to hear from distant rellies he had never known of

his family left the home area in Nottinghamshire in the early 1900s, over a decade before he was born, and his mum was an only child who never married, he being her only child too, so he has never had extended family, but he still tells stories he heard about his great-grandparents, the couple the woman at Ancestry descends from too

and she herself has never known much about her mother's family, so I've passed on the stories in trade

tall dude himself isn't much interested in it all, but I'm sure his dad will be a bit thrilled when he gets the letter and photos she has said she will be sending to him

ain't the internet grand :-)