Lost cousins

Posted on 24-January-2007 by Steve

If you have British ancestors, you might find the Lost Cousins website useful.
It’s free to join, and what you do is enter any members of your family who appeared on the 1881 census of England, Wales or Scotland. And you can find the census on line, too.
Once you’ve entered them, the Lost Cousins site attempts [...]

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This explains everything

Posted on 14-January-2007 by Steve

About a week ago I wrote a bit of family news here and invited some family members to make contact and respond in some way — leave a comment, sign the guestbook, something, anything.
But after a week, only silence. Oh, there was a Christmas card from cousin Josephine Tsegaye (nee Hayes), but that doesn’t count, [...]

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Family news, links, odds and ends

Posted on 8-January-2007 by Steve

News of 2006
Check our family home page for general news and background, especially if you landed here without knowing who we are and are not sure if you know us.
Several friends and family members have sent us Christmas cards and letters, giving news of themselves and their doings, and this is a kind of response [...]

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New Growden cousin

Posted on 2-January-2007 by Steve

Jackie Seaman recently joined the Growden family discussion forum, and has sent me a chart of the descendants of William Growden and Elizabeth Sandercock she had managed to trace, which shows that she is my fourth cousin once removed.
She has quite a few descendants that I don’t have, and I have some that she doesn’t [...]

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