I'm now a very happy bunny!

[Finley 1]

Thanks

I am under a pile of boxes and think I will be for the foreseeable future....... 

xin

[clairec666]

Congratulations on filling the gap in your tree.

I've added a few "lost little ones" to my tree - I've started working through the families who I know had more children (from the 1911 census), then I'll start on the earlier families.

Luckily most of my ancestors have nice rare surnames - I don't envy you searching for White/Smith!

It feels a little sad to be adding all these young deaths to my tree, but I guess it's nice to acknowledge them and know their name. I wonder if my great-grandfather knew he had another sibling? Or that his wife shared her name (Kate) with his dead sister?

[Finley 1]

Oh wow........  thank you all so much -

Some of you may know that I have been searching for one little lost one for some many years.. and today cos of this Gro thingy and this post........

I found HER .... fillin up....  her name was Emma bn 1868 her mothers maiden name had been transcribed slightly wrong..  but now I have all My G.Grans missing babies.. the 1911 showed 3 missing and so I tell her now that I have at last found them all.  I know she will be chuffed xxxx

eee off to the quiet corner to ponder for a while .... beautiful baby Emma xxxxxx 

xin

[Jomot]

I know what you mean Xin.   

My husband's G Grandparents had 16 children but I could only find 15 and I felt so sad not being able to acknowledge the existence of that final 'lost' child.  Found her on the new GRO index - Jane, born & died 1900.

[Finley 1]

It is fantastic   

xin

[maddys52]

Couldn't agree more, so nice to at last be able to acknowledge the "lost" ones. 

[coombs]

Isn't it just? Filling in the gaps and adding flesh to the bones.

[jbml]

Oh wow!!!

I had a family tradition that my great great grandfather was the youngest of of 10 children, but all the others died in infancy. I had a list of 14 candidates for the other 9, but no way of identifying the correct ones without spending a FORTUNE on certificates.

I now have the identifications. He was actually the 6th of 9 ... and all the others did die in infancy. That's not bad going, as accuracy of family traditions is usually pretty poor on details like numbers and sequences of children.

[JAKnighton]

Yep, I'm finding loads of "forgotten" children now. It used to blow me away that my 4x great grandparents had fourteen kids, now I've found out that they had fifteen!