Found living rellies woohoo

anner · Post by **anner** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:14 pm

Hi Everyone,
Due to a lot of help from some great people on this site, I have now found living relatives in Glasgow. I now have the problem of if to get in touch and how to go about it.
My late Dad would be over the moon to see what we have found out, especially as he never knew who his biological family were. I have found an Aunt an Uncle and lots of cousins. The cousins being around the same age as me. Absolutely wonderful.
I was told not to give up hope and I am so glad that I didnt, I wouldnt have had half as much fun as what I would have had, unlocking secrets to the past.

Again Thankyou everyone for all your kind help.
Regards
Anne.

AnnieMack · Post by **AnnieMack** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:34 pm

Well done Anne - it is a great feeling! I have now contacted 3 cousins through this great hobby!

Annie

PS: I am originally a Wilson with a dad from Glasgow

anner · Post by **anner** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:47 pm

Hi Annie,
I emember how kind you where when I was looking for the Wilsons. I also waved to you going through Auchterarder on my way to Perth this summer.
It is such a great thrill to find people you have always suspected of being there and then finding them.
Its a good job I didnt know about them when I went to Glasgow, can you imagine, I may have turned up on their door step. Imagine the horror. I dont know if they knew about my Dad so it will be a tricky one.

Regards
Anne.

AnnieMack · Post by **AnnieMack** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:01 pm

One of the lines I have been researching has resulted in me contacting a cousin in Canada who is 15 days younger than me and was there when I was in the late 60's. It is sad that we didn't know of each other then but through the great medium that is the Internet we have happily made contact now.

Annie

anner · Post by **anner** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:06 pm

Yes I have to sgree with you. I am also in contact with family in America, we didnt know about these until I googled one of my granfathers sisters names and up it came. Emailed them and found a great amount of info from her. We swapped addresses and are in touch every week at least asking each other about some part of the family. Seems one of my great uncles emigrated in 1906 and his wife and children followed in 1907. Really interesting what can be found nowadays.
And still lots more to find.

Anne.

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:56 am

Hello Ann

It is great when you get a link up with a live rellie. I have a live rellie (4th cousin) here in the west who I linked up with early this year but we are both stumped at the same brickwall. But just a few weeks ago I linked up with another 4th cousin who lives just across the brig from Edinburgh. We linked up through genes, through our Mathieson line. She got trapped focusing on the Mathewson spelling, but then expanded her spelling and bingo! I must admit I have fallen into that trap myself with surname spelling (Lau(w)rie).

Just wish there were more people searching for my lines.

I see you have Mathiesons (various spellings) in your line but our lot seem to be from Inveresk, Midlothian area as far as all the information so far says.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:01 am

anner wrote:....snipped........ Its a good job I didnt know about them when I went to Glasgow, can you imagine, I may have turned up on their door step. Imagine the horror. I dont know if they knew about my Dad so it will be a tricky one.

Regards
Anne.

Which is why first contact by letter is recommended rather than telephone.

David

anner · Post by **anner** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:17 am

Thank you David and StewL,

David, That is why I will be sending a letter today, I would never have just turned up there really, would probably been too nervous to do that. I am hoping however that they would like some contact, but, if they dont, thats ok too. I will honour whatever they want. These are the only direct livig rellies on my fathers side, and I would be overjoyed to see what my dads biological family were like.

Stewl thanks for your input. My Mathiesons (spelt two different ways) I am not sure where she was from originally. Isabella married Robert Ross , Their children were born in Kelso and Hawick in Roxburgh, from about 1808. Dont know if they are anything to do with your ones as not overly great on where boundaries were in Scotland.

Regards
Anne.

Bertha · Post by **Bertha** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:50 pm

Hi
Through TS and Genes, I have made contact with several distant cousins here in Scotland and as far afield as New Zealand.
I have even discovered much to our surprise, a 3rd cousin who through our fathers are related on my grandmother's side and she is also my 4th cousin through her mothers family and my father's family through his father. Confused? I have even managed to put the same girl intouch with another 3rd cousin in New Zealand who is from the same direct line as her. Yes I hear you say "very confusing!" but that's the fun of geneology, making all the bits of the puzzle fit and making friends along the way.
Regards
Bertha

anner · Post by **anner** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:13 pm

Hi Bertha,
I couldnt agree more, my tree is a real jigsaw puzzle. I think I know have the edges and some of the inside done but still need to do the rest. Mine has been really tricky as things that we grew up believing that were not true. All I had to start with was my Dads b.c. But it has been amazing along the way. Tears and laughter ususally come to mind as well.

Regards
Anne.