In February this year, a lady joined this site, almost by accident - she was surfing the net for suppliers for her business and chanced on FTF.
She asked if we could help her to find anything about her birth father - she knew absolutely nothing about him except his name, which wasn't quite John Smith, but might as well have been, it was so common!
A team of us have been helping her. We have run to over 5,000 posts and on the way have constructed a family tree for her and found several living relatives, some nice, one truly nasty. None of them even knew of her existence, and neither did they know anything of her father's existence. He died some years ago.
But today.....she has heard from a living relative, who not only knew her father but has a photo of him. They are to meet up next week.
Believe me, this was the hardest, most complicated chase I have ever witnessed but dogged determination on the part of many of the excellent researchers on this site got us there in the end.
I congratulate everyone involved in this search and I hope this post will give encouragement to those who feel they have too little information to even start a search.
This truly is FTF's Finest Hour!
OC
She asked if we could help her to find anything about her birth father - she knew absolutely nothing about him except his name, which wasn't quite John Smith, but might as well have been, it was so common!
A team of us have been helping her. We have run to over 5,000 posts and on the way have constructed a family tree for her and found several living relatives, some nice, one truly nasty. None of them even knew of her existence, and neither did they know anything of her father's existence. He died some years ago.
But today.....she has heard from a living relative, who not only knew her father but has a photo of him. They are to meet up next week.
Believe me, this was the hardest, most complicated chase I have ever witnessed but dogged determination on the part of many of the excellent researchers on this site got us there in the end.
I congratulate everyone involved in this search and I hope this post will give encouragement to those who feel they have too little information to even start a search.
This truly is FTF's Finest Hour!
OC
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