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My friends grandfather recently died and left money to grandchildren including a cousin noone had heard of before so they've asked me to look if I can find any records ...I feel like someone off heir hunters

I may have found missing cousin on electoral rolls providing he didn't change his surname to his mother's maiden name or a step fathers surname ( 1 potential remarriage for the mother ) .

Thanks for the laugh pinetree

Welly I missed your post . Good luck with replacing items .. before you rush out and buy brand new check  that friends and family.havent got spares lying around.

I'm on 2 local Facebook pages where people are always offering freebies ..I don't know how they accumulate unwanted TVs or furniture but it's very handy.

I will be giving things away next time I move because i.ll have less space .

Some furniture can go back to my mum to replace her flood damaged things

Hi all

Louisa we had copies of a lot of the photos and my cousin has some slightly different ones.
& A lot are saved from the albums that had to be thrown away .

Lovely day today .

After a pleasant morning in a chat cafe . Lunch with sis . neice+ great niece .
I had a short haircut by a trainee that took over 3 hours but is lovely after months of whispy hair .

I spent some of today sorting out my mother's water damaged photos .

Quite a lot of the photos had survived despite albums being damaged . So she and my sister had already rescued our childhood photos removing them from albums and. Numbering them there are 75 of my baby years

I was pleased that most of my Nana's photos from album. 1920-1940 had survived except for first page and last page & 1 photo in the middle stuck to another.

The fact that the water may have been toxic does mean that throwing things away is safer .

It was  a good excuse for a clear out and my mother is philosophical that her kitchen needed redoing anyway & the car was due for repairs . She's also grateful that unlike some of her neighbours she hasn't had to move to the local Travelodge but a friend in the village ..near shops + library is going to rent her a room with bathroom.

Also she plans to go back most days+ use her upstairs rooms as an office .the electrician got the lights working + the heating needs to be on with a dehumidifier to dry downstairs out . The carpets have been removed.

The village has an amazing community spirit. They are helping with the clean up offering hot thermos . washing loads. use of ovens . & Lifts

If you saw news of the pub owner who rescued a woman from car . residents wanted to start a gofund account for him & his pub but he asked for any money to go to the local churches or the rescue organisation all he wanted was some physical help with cleaning !

What a hero

I was researching my friends grandfather for him and when I made contact with his elderly aunt discovered that she considered him a long lost baby.
He had no idea that his aunt's and cousins had looked for him after his mother removed him from their care and moved towns without leaving an address.

He now has a big family in Wales having been brought up as a single child of a divorced mother .

He didn't know paternal cousins either . Though they knew about him .