I Am Totally Blown Away, This Is So Exciting!!!!

Hi Rozie37! That is really great! I think that is really cool! I will be just as excited as you are if I will find and meet some relatives that I never knew or heard of before. I am so happy for you dear friend. This has not happened to me ever. Take care always..God Bless!

That is so cool Rozie, finding more family members and getting to know them too. My cousin is currently doing ours and she keeps us updated on our family website through myfamily.com. I still don't understand how to use it so hopefully whenever they decide on the reunion, that it's completed and I can see it in it's written form. It's hard to follow online, well through this site anyways. Good luck on finding more family members :0) next thing you need is a family reunion, now that would be cool!

That happened to me, once. it is so exciting. You make me want to try to contact her again. It was so neat because my dad's cousin remembered the lady's grandma! Congratulations on your wonderful find. I love doing genalogy work. It is so rewarding when you have experiences like this. Keep up the research. How do you do your research? I use ancestry, too. and the LDS Chuch site.

Oh, yes, exactly the same thing happened to me. I was doing genealogy and found a distant cousin who still lived in the area where most of the family used to live and gave me a ton of information. I think she had about the same number of people listed, too. I was able to work from there to get even more people. I've also connected with a lot of other long lost cousins, too. One was a man older than my grandfather who grew up with my great grandfather and my grandfather. He gave me an old family photo with my great, great grandfather and grandmother in it that's about 100 years old. Now and then, I come across other distant cousins in Canada, the United States and Australia.

thats cool. I would love to do that but wouldn't have any idea of how to start.

I can't believe I can finally see your discussions again! Took long for them to figure out the problem or for the glitch to work itself out. Anyway, I have played around with my geneology line too and it's interesting, isn't it? I found out that part of my family is related to Wyatt Earp. I haven't contacted anyone yet cause I'm not that far into mine yet. That's so cool that you actually found a family member though, and she had your name and family's names on her tree. I bet that was weird to see. Awesome though.

Uh-oh, sounds like you have the genie bug. It's a search that becomes very addictive very quickly, but it's the greatest thing in the world. There is no feeling like the success of finding where you come from and what your people were like. www.familysearch.org is another great site to find proof of your family members vital stats. Good luck on your journey.

Hi Rozie, [i]wow..that is great! I have not tried searching or meeting family members online! That is a great idea too! Thanks for sharing this site![/i]

My cousin was doing a family research on that site and I don't think we have found relatives that we have not met yet. But that is really nice to know that you have other family that you never met. That is cool. Have a good one.

Good day... I didn't have a research on my own genealogy so I can't really say but I can imagine the feeling of finding someone who had you and your whole family in their list and you didn't even know about them. That's way too scary and intriguing at the same time.

Hi, Rosie, I know how you feel. I just met a second cousin I had never knew about until 10 years ago when I started to research my family tree. She and I are close in age although she lives in Washington state and I lived in Iowa at the time. Her grandfather and my grandfather were brothers. It is very exciting to meet family members outside the immediate family. I have also met online a distant 5th cousin! We share a great-great-great-great-grandfather! I use Family Tree Maker program to keep all my information. I also use www.ancestry.com along with the Mormon site www.familysearch.org. I also use two other sites for research: www.rootsweb.com and www.usgenweb.com. Both sites are free sites. The downside is you are depending on submissions from others and have no guarantee of the accuracy. With my own family tree, I have seen quite a bit of misinformation out there.

Hello Rozie37, That is fantastic story and to find your cousin on it, most unsual still I bet you are very happy now, have you met her yet? you could have a hugh family gathering. Tamara

wow,what an expeience you have got and i am really happy for you~~~ in fact i think what has happened to you is kinda legendery,haha~~~ if it did happened on me, i would probably jump with joy and keep very constant touch with my new relative,haha~~~ again,happy for you

Considering my Grandma and Grandpa had five boys and 11 girls. I have a lot! of cousins, I haven't even met nearly half of all of them, or my cousins for that fact, so when I hear I have a cousin that I haven't met before I'm going to meet, I get all excited. My uncle over the last few years just traced a family history,but it doesn't include anyone new on it yet, just where our ancestors came from.