How many years have you been searching for any one person?

[trish58]

15 years searching for my Grand Fathers Sister Mary Rae born in Ireland, the family travelled between Scotland & Ireland, got my Grand Fathers birth cert no problem but could find no record of Mary at all, low & behold last week her Baptism appeared on Ancestry-So excited but still can't find a birth for her.

Sometime after 1911 she goes to Canada and I am still searching, she is the bane of my life.

Trish

[Erin2012]

I feel like there are a few relatives that I have been looking for ever since I started all this in the 1980's.

[lydiaann]

I, too, have had ongoing searches for individuals since I started 6 years ago.  However, I've learned never to give up.  It appears that, after a question on a marriage recently, someone in Canada has the information I have been searching for all this time - the siblings of the father of this particular bride.  And it would appear that I have the information necessary to tell her why she has these details, which have perplexed her family for a couple of generations.

So the moral is, never give up folks...your time will come (thanks to RootsChatters and the bottomless fund of knowledge and information that they have!)

[sirsimon]

I spent two years looking for the parents of my 4x great grandfather. I only found them by finding out he was six years old at the time of his baptism.

[Milliepede]

Been looking for my missing George Hinchliffe (1835 - ?) for about 8 years since I started doing this fascinating (and frustrating!) ancestry.

Good luck to everyone in tracking down their missing people   
 

[Rudolf H B]

20 years
for a missing pair of 5x gt grandparents - I had a long tree for him in my archives, done by a historian & genealogist. He had been not interested in listing his daughters!

The brickwall was broken by online research in the Archives Departmentales in Strasbourg, France.

Good luck to everyone in tracking down their missing people   
 

Rudolf