Genealogy Chat

Pam, yes I have experience of this. My mother never really spoke about her family but when I researched them I found 3 teenage deaths and a shooting !
You can understand why sometimes they don't tell us everything.

Thanks for that Jane. I'm sending for the death certifcate to see the cause of death. I'm certainly adding her to my tree.

Regards Pam

Pamela,

Well at least you have found out about her now- she is still part of your family even though she died and can still be part of your tree. My great grandparents had a little girl who died a few days following birth. My nan told me it was a boy!! I found a record that I thought it could be but was a girl I sent for the certificate and low and behold it was her.

I don't think my nan's siblings descendents know this but I am definitely going to share it with them!!

BW

Jane

Just found out my late father had a sister born some 5 years after him who only lived for a few days. Nothing was ever mentioned in the family about another child. As far as my father was concerned he was the youngest of four children. There has been no mention of this child and as my father and his three other siblings are all dead I cannot find out anything about her. Just don't know whether to be happy that I have found an aunt or sad that I didn't have any idea she existed. Anyone had the same experience.