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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	19 Dec 2016 19:42
	That would have been quite a good age. :-)
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Member Since: January 2009 Posts: 1,381 Send Message	Denburybob	Report	19 Dec 2016 19:41
	....my maternal grandfather was born. He served as a Rifleman in WW1, was wounded in 1916, receiving a gunshot wound in the thigh. He was patched up and sent back to his unit to fight on. He lived to be 87.

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