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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 8 Send Message	Lynne	Report	16 Nov 2002 15:11
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 8 Send Message	A lot of people arent on the family search page, 90% of mine arent. There are several reasons. I dont believe that there are many resources past 1900 available, because of the privacy laws (the same reason that the latest census you can view is 1901) also, the Church of Latter-Day Saints copied their information from Church records, and collated that way. Many Churches did not (and still do not) allow their records to be copied. You are lucky if you do find relatives on the familysearch page, but yout probably wont find most, or even half of them on there.. Lynne

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