Where did you first find a rellie on the Web?

[Springbok]

Reading the thread on The Lighter Side,"Compounding Errors",and the irritations of GR.,made me wonder where  other people made family Contacts on the Internet,if not on GR?

Since Rootschat started ,how many of you have had, or made contact through here. I've tried a couple of times,getting no reply,but it is still a very young site.

Where else did others go?

Spring

[Elliebob]

I started with my paternal grandmother's family.  They came from the north Cotswolds, just south of Stratford on Avon.  Gordon Beavington's census transcripts were on there quite early, the villages are small and easily looked through. 
 Also the Rootsweb pages have contacts for researchers in the Cotswold areas and I made my first contact with distant rellies through there.

www.rootsweb.com/~engcots/theParishes.html


Ellen

[Springbok]

I  didn't know from where in the country my Grandparents came  , so it was a case of BMD's and Census returns and Certs.for some time,and they only took me back to the mid 1837 of course.

It was only through GR that I got contacts which enabled me to get Family Trees researched by others.and the Villages from where our families had been for generations.

I am dependant  on the Internet,so am ever grateful for their help.

Spring

[Keren]

My first contact with someone sharing part of my tree was from a list somewhere on GenUk, that I had posted years before! My one and only contact Lol. and we are both stuck at the same wall!!

Keep hoping someone else will contact me one day to clear my brickwalls

[mitchell]

My very first contact came from inputting my (at the time) small family tree into a website...mytrees.com...if you did that then you got to find matches free for a while. I found a match for my Archibald family and contacted him.

As Ellen has already said using Rootsweb was good too as I found another rellie there.

By far the most contacts that I've had are through using GR - I've been really fortunate and have now found about 18 directly related to my family... I know that other people are not so lucky.

I have found one through Rootschat but it actually turned out that we had previously spoken to each other about another branch of the family on GR and hadn't made a match. It was only when I posted here that we discovered that we were related through another branch 

Elaine

[Tephra]

I found an excellent Wallwork branch courtesy of a member of RC - she also put me in touch with another lady who passed on information.

I have information on GR and Lostcousins.com and there must be another half dozen or so sites, but I've only had luck with RC . . . . . . 'Long may it reign'   

Barbara           

[Burrow Digger]

My first cousin contact was through Rootsweb.
I think I have found 3 through Rootsweb altogether.

So far I have found 1 cousin contact here on Rootschat.

BD

[CarolBurns]

My first "finds" were through the LDS site and the info was actually correct. Then when I had Great Grandparents names and marriage certificate (hubby's side) I just put the name (Horsburgh) into the search engine and was given quite a few sites with links to the name.

As I had both sets of parents names for bride and groom I was able to make a link with a lovely man who turned out to be 3rd cousin to hubby. He gave me info from his 30 years of searching that took us back to 1478.

Then when I joined GR I got quite a few lines from that info alone. I am still finding links to both sides of the family even now - just found 3 of hubby's 2nd cousins on there as well as a 3rd cousin.

Through Rootschat I have found one of my 3rd cousins and a 2nd cousin of my Dad's both from the same family so able to share all with them both.

I know I haven't got that many connections on RC compared to GR but RC is still very young and I know that as time goes on I wil find more through RC. 

RC is great for the help that you cannot always find on other sites and if you have your rellie's names in the post they do show up in searches on the search engines. So that means that others who are not members are also seeing the info

Carol

[MarieC]

I found a fourth cousin on Genes Reunited and we are in touch, though haven't made much progress.  Another fourth cousin found me through my webpage, and she had lots of info on one branch of the family, which was great!

MarieC