Unforgettable ~ Finding Relatives You Didn't Know Were Missing

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: 2020 Week 35 (UNFORGETTABLE)

This week I was thinking that 'you don't know what you don't know until you do'. This is true when searching far and wide for family that you end up finding practically in your own neighbourhood. 

I wrote about this in a previous blog about my dad's side of the family.
Searching Far & Wide ~ Found Across Town

This week I had an entire branch of my mom's maternal line appear when I didn't even know it was missing. 

It all started with  a DNA match for a person who had no tree. I messaged via Ancestry in June 2019, and promptly forgot about it. This month I received a reply with family information, and an introduction to his mom who lives in the next town over. She is my grandma's first cousin on their Dendy family line. Her father & my grandmother's mother were siblings. 

In talking with her she remembers my grandmother. The age difference left them not close, but they knew about each other. 

I remember hearing stories about this particular uncle. I don't remember ever meeting him. 

It left me wondering. How is it that families lose touch. 

Regardless of how it happened. 

I am so glad to have rediscovered these unforgettable relatives. 

Getting jazzed about researching particular branches leaves no time to write!







This is why I search - 



Cause ... 





You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
















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