Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: Help me find my cousin I lost contact with.  (Read 1248 times)

Offline ladybird

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,271
  • Oh golly
    • View Profile
Re: Help me find my cousin I lost contact with.
« Reply #9 on: Monday 30 July 18 22:10 BST (UK) »
Several years ago I was rung out of the blue by a full cousin in England, I only knew of her by name. She was a lot younger than me and I had emigrated as a teenager. I have no idea how she found me in New Zealand except that it must have been through other cousins I had been in touch with or through message boards I had been on. Anyway we talked for over an hour and it was lovely to catch up with her news of the family. I learned later through an email from her partner that she had died suddenly...that was so sad.
Main names:
Scotland (Travellers) - Townsend/Townsley, Conway, Stewart
Lanark and Stirling - Jeffrey.
Northumberland/ Durham - Newton, Nixon, Sharp, Greaves, Naters
Warwickshire and London - Garfield.
Ireland, Co. Kerry - Marah/Meara/Mara, McClure, Howard, Melvin
Lincs - Smith, Vinter

other offshoots - Berry, Steven, Craig, Atkins, Fuller, , Stewart, Conway, Heather,

Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline BumbleB

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,306
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Help me find my cousin I lost contact with.
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 08:42 BST (UK) »
Just an addition to the idea of written contact - which I have done both successfully and unsuccessfully - enclose a stamped addressed envelope, so that the recipient doesn't incur initial costs.
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

Offline hallmark

  • ~
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • ****
  • Posts: 17,525
    • View Profile
Re: Help me find my cousin I lost contact with.
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 08:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Tuesday 31 July 18 08:42 BST (UK)
Just an addition to the idea of written contact - which I have done both successfully and unsuccessfully - enclose a stamped addressed envelope, so that the recipient doesn't incur initial costs.


....and an email address?   ;D  ;D
Give a man a record and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to research, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Pages: 1 [2]