Thursday, July 16, 2009

Finding lost family

Some week it`s been..
I really don`t know where it`s gone...
Already Friday tomorrow and not one lousy day have I been able to sleep in...
I must be getting old..
Don`t they say the older you get the less sleep you need???..
I`m starting to fit that bill I believe..lol
Recently my youngest sister has been doing a family tree with some remarkable results...
She has gone back as far as the 16th century on my mothers side of the family....
She also found pictures of our late great great great grandfather and grandmother....
The clothes back then were certainly alot to be desired...
Glad I wasn`t born back then..
Not sure whether I would have fitted in...lol....
Having done all this my sister thought that she would try and find our grandfather and after many months she has finally found his whereabouts...
Apparently after he left my grandmother he chose to also lose contact with the entire family...
Why , i`m not sure...
Another one of those skeletons in the cupboard that isn`t to be let out....
I have one photo of him back when I was four years old where he was nursing me...
My only reminder of my grandfather...
Sadly I do not remember him....
As for my youngest brother and sister he has never met them...
He is now residing in Queensland in a nursing home....
My sister has made up a family album of all us kids and now our kids and in a months time she and my mother are going to fly over there to visit him....
All this time we thought that he may have passed on so you can imagine the surprise when we were all told he is still alive....
The nursing home staff have been wonderful as my sister has been corresponding through them and they were kind enough to send a photo of what he looks like today..

6 comments:

  1. that's great that you've found him. pity you don't remember him. family trees are funny, you never know what you'll find. my cousin is doing my mother's side atm. that's hard too. have a great day. Fran

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  2. That is great that he is still alive. It must be very emotional for your Mum.Glad to see you here.

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  3. That is great news finding him alive don't understand why some people lose touch with family but that is only because I come from such a close family.

    My mum found her dad 10 years ago only 18mnths before he died she hadn't seen him since she was 4 and was very lucky she found him when she did.

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  4. Isn't that wonderful, for him to be found. Hope you are keeping well..

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  5. OMGosh....well done.....we found a relative hung at Adelaide Gaol, made an interesting outing for the kids!

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  6. That's a great post, Mandy. That's for sure worth a trip up to the Sunhine State to see your granddad again, don't you think?

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