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Very easy in my case, my family have lived in the same village since 1806. We still have a house there. The two practice doctors were friends. I moved 44 years ago but still know the village family doctors.  In fact  one phone me while I was visiting my dad in hospital so that I could tell him how dad was a couple of years ago, and he always phoned me when my parents and brother  passed away to make sure I was ok even though he isn’t my gp.  My own gp is another matter 

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Managed to fill in some blanks and got side tracked as you do    I concentrated on my Canadian and US relatives and feel it was a productive weekend.. even managed to find quite a few photos. 

I need to keep a look out for the next free weekend / offers.

Did anyone use newspapers.com for UK papers? Did you have much luck?

I listened to all the episodes and was shocked though not surprised by early ‘professional’ attitudes where they believed they could do anything. It has been good a law was introduced, but DNA is moving much faster than the law. There are ethical issues that need to be considered legally. My God-daughter was created by using a sperm donor. She does not have a problem. But she has joined a Facebook page where some are questioning their DNA results. One guy tried to emigrate, and had to name his parents and send a DNA sample. He was told the DNA did not match his father. That informed him, but there is a sister who still did not know. She was asking questions on Facebook and my God-daughter suggested a sperm donor. I believe there needs to be stricter laws and legal guidelines for all to follow, including governments.

Health: I chose not to use DNA to look at health issues. Having just become a pensioner, for many years I have had diabetes type two and hereditary blood pressure, if anything else is arriving I don’t care, and would rather die of ignorance.

Have you seen the programme “Born to a stranger” on ITV  and ITV x ? It’s all about sperm and egg donor children, it’s very good and touches on the Facebook groups. I think last night’s episode was the last one in this series, but well worth watching on catch up… warning I found episode 2 very touching

Thank you Sinann, it is totally beyond me. Hopefully someone can help out, fingers crossed.

Jenny