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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: percy porter on Sunday 25 July 10 06:47 BST (UK)
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It's outside my area of expertise but there may well be others that can help. Regardless it makes for an interesting story.
Alan NZ
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10660997
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Both my Dad's mum and dad are what I call love children ... and I have come to a complete brick wall in finding the their fathers.
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I have a couple of 'love children' in my tree also. I would dearly love to find the Mothers names, the father was a bit of a devil fathering children all over the place :o
I wonder if they will get any response to the article.
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Our family tree is full of them. It's frustrating!
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I can certainly sympathise with you on this one. I have spent 15 years trying to find my dads birth details and got nowhere! It was suggested to me that I put his photos on a genealogy "photo board" - if there is one - as photos of course can reveal a lot more than research sometimes.
Does anyone know of one?
Suz
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Hi Suz
Would it be best to do something like this in a local paper
I have different views than most on these matters, if the people of the time wanted it to be a secret
then we should leave it as such.
Sometimes older people will know stories about what happened that may be shared
BYe
althea
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Omigosh - this is so much along the lines of my biggest genealogy moment!
My husband was a love child - he was adopted out and his birth father was killed climbing the Himalayas a couple of years later, in the late 60s.
It took years, but we found his birth father's family - none of the siblings had known there was a baby.
Last summer, we took our family to Australia to meet his uncles and aunts and cousins. It was amazing! So worth all the energy spent trying to locate the family.
I wish the family luck - someone somewhere knows who is who, and the local newspaper probably is the best way to reach them.