GenesReunited

You are in fact responding to a humorous response by athNZ about something I wrote a week or so ago. I realised we had veered off the Genes Reunited (GR) theme and so decided not contribute further (sighs of relief all round). I followed through with a GR posting and soon after others did the same and thankfully we are now back on topic.

 

Wow, and having said back on topic to GR, I find a message in my inbox from a GR contact and it has been an awful long time since I had one of those. Clearly my recent Gedcom update paid off. Obviously the message is from a subscriber, which I am no longer, so will be able to answer, unlike my recent attempt to answer a very old message which required that I renew my long lapsed sub. I will still ponder on whether to do that or not.

That followed on from a message a day or two before this time via Tribal Pages (TP) forwarded on from someone I instantly recognised as being a 4th cousin, residing in Australia and a direct descendant of one of one of my own ancestors sentenced to transportation back in 1842. All he wanted was a reminder of the passcode to via the Family Tree. I reminded we had swapped emails long ago but clearly he had forgotten that also (Considering he is about my own age not too surprising). So yesterday as a real bonus to the GR message I received a long email from him and learned all about his family, his health and his Australian researches. I knew he was a long retired Veterinary Surgeon but not that in Australia (and I think America as well) he could use the title 'Dr'. Veterinaries in the UK (to use the 'All creatures...' term) are plain Mister as are Medical Surgeons. However not too many of us have extant 4th cousins with whom to swap notes...unless others say different of course.

 

How can I let this one pass? I do have a 4th cousin, of a similar age to me, living near Perth, Australia, who is also an LC member. The 'paper trail' shows that we are definitely 4th cousins and we have both had Ancestry atDNA tests carried out but there has been no resulting match identified. That means that we must share less than about 6 cM, unless one or both of us has made an absolute howler.

We have exchanged a lot of information about our ancestors and agree that everything looks good so hopefully we are not mistaken.

 

I too have several 4th cousins with whom I am in contact, including one identified via DNA match on Ancestry just last week, with whom I've been comparing notes.

Quite a few of my early contacts via Genes Reunited were at the 4th cousin level.

 

Mea Culpa, I spoke too soon but I did invite comment from others and I certainly got those