Hi Bernadette,
I would like to say a big thank you to you from the bottom of my heart! As you know I paid out quite a lot of money to so called professional bodies who advertise their services with regards to helping people trace lost relatives in Ireland and unfortunately got no results. Quite by chance and luckily for me, I came across your site and thought I would give it a go; I am very glad that I did. Needless to say your efforts where relentless in tracking down my family members in Ireland. I was born in a Catholic Mother and baby home for unmarried mothers in London in 1960 where my Irish Mother gave birth to me. Unfortunately she (my mother) had to put me up for adoption because of the circumstances of the time. As you know, I had little to go on, only a small file I managed to retrieve from the adoption agency in London which gave me some clues as to my Mothers routes in Co Kildare. Entirely due to your efforts I met my birth Mother for the first time in my life at aged nearly 50, she being 70 and still full of life. I am sure you can imagine that I never thought this would happen; since then I have met with my mother on several occasions and we are the best of friends and bonded as soon as we set eyes on each other which was on her door step in London just three weeks ago! Just meeting my mother would have been fantastic on its own but I have also spoken with my half sister I never knew existed and have also spoken (by telephone) with several Aunts in Ireland who welcomed me with open arms! My adopted Mother and Farther are now dead and up until one month ago I had absolutely no family relatives other than my wife and kids. Now I have a Mother and a huge family in Ireland and I feel complete.
So Bernadette, needless to say, words will never ever express the thanks from my Mother, family and I, you are also part of our family, without you this great achievement would have never happened. We are all still in amazement to the lengths you went too, to find out clues and follow them up, right up until that day when you sent me an email explaining you had spent the afternoon with my family in Ireland, a fantastic ending to a very long search, thank you.
Sincerely, Peter.
