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From: "Skyler" <>
Subject: Re: Why we do it?
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:44:01 +1300
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I started researching my family history because my father died when I was
three and a half years old (1954) and my mother never had a lot to do with
his family, therefore we (my brother and I) never learnt much about the
background of our father. Both his parents had died long before I was born
and in the house I grew up in hung a picture of a very handsome woman who
was his mother. I was told as we grew up that my grandfather had married
twice and they were sisters. That he had married in England to his first
wife and immigranted to New Zealand, and when his first wife died he went
back to England and married her sister who was widowed. I always felt deep
inside that there was a lot more to this story than I'd been told. A few
years ago, before I became involved in the interent, my brother gave me
copies of my grandparents death certificates. Along with a death
certificate of my grandfathers oldest son and of my father. Both men had
different mothers and something about these certificates didn't match the
stories we'd both been told. That was when I decided to find out as much as
I could about these people. Who they were and from where they came. It has
been a long struggle to gain the little ground I have, and I intend to keep
on going until I have the full story about these people whom I only really
know through pictures but are everybit a part of myself.

Christine Lethaby
Tauranga
New Zealand

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