Where have you met newly found relations?

[ambers]

After gaining an Email addy through a Cornish site where her s-i-l had many years ago tried to contact living relatives on her behalf in the UK.

My cousins lives in South Africa, and we met about six weeks ago when she visited the UK and stayed at my home.

So odd to find that we were both born London way, and for the first six years of our lives lived only about forty miles apart.

Ambers

[tedscout]

I'm home from my cemetery meeting and I have to say it was FANTASTIC. Not only did we all meet and remember our ancestors, but we also met, quite by accident, the researcher who has helped us out in the past, and then another family member who was putting flowers on a grave.

Wow - 2 hour drive home and my head is still spinning.

  Ted

[Winterbloom21]

That is just great.   Lucky you.    I am planning to meet up with a second cousin next month near Remembrance Day.  We are going to the graveyard where I recently discovered our great great grandmother and both great great great grandparents are buried.       

[ITBookworm]

I must be very boring When we discovered some 2nd cousins visiting from Australia by chance we picked a local garden centre cafe to meet as somewhere easy to find and then have a nice chat.

[pinefamily]

I arranged to meet a distant relative of my wife's out the front of our State Library. All very normal you might think, but even though I hadn't met him before, I picked HIM out straight away due to a scarily similar family resemblance to my wife's grandMOTHER.
And that's no aspersions on either of them, just a strong family resemblance.

Darren

[Gillg]

Like ITBookworm I met distant cousins (two brother) in a garden centre cafe, just a convenient place to meet, as it was equidistant from our homes.  Far from our family's original Hunts birthplace, we discovered that we were now living about 30 miles apart in the West Country.

This was a first meeting for us all, and I was amazed to discover that one of them had children called Michael, Rosalind and Christopher.  My brother's name is Michael and his children are called Rosalind and Christopher!

[pinefamily]

A distant cousin (4th, I think) found me via the internet. After several years of e-mails and phonecalls, he came down from Brisbane for a visit. THe minute he arrived in the airport terminal, my wife took one look at the 2 of us, and said "You can't tell that you two are Pine's!"

[Marmalady]

We met some distant relations on a cruise ship!!

We had made contact with some (i think) 3rd cousins who live about 20 miles away and we met up in a local pub. Then they said some other cousins from New Zealand were coming over to Europe and taking a Mediterranean cruise, and invited us to go along too

So we met the New Zealanders for the first time over dinner as the ship sailed from Rome!

Was a great holiday

[jollery]

I met my third cousin on a holiday in Wales.  It wasnt arranged, but the first night of the holiday went down to dinner and sat at a table with two other people, unknown to me,  and introduced ourselves and started to chat.   Turned out that we were third cousins.  Now I could have sat at any table that night and wouldnt have met her.   Its weird, almost like we were destined to meet.    We now keep in touch on a regular basis and go out to lunch occasionally.