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I'd love to be able to sit down with my Mam and show her everything I have learnt about her family since she died, and tell her she was right about her Norfolk roots! I'd also love a one to one with my Granda, Mam's Dad, who I never met, but am told by everyone in the family that he was a war hero and a 'lovely lovely man'. Can I add a living one too? Would love to meet John McCarthy--he's a hero of mine, and I still treasure a letter he wrote me (it's a long story!). Oh, and Charlie Sheen cos he's a dish!

my great gran, she died when i was 11, you just don't think to ask anything at that age do you. i would like to know what really happened when she was younger,on her marriege cert.she married in june 1897, in the family bible i have that was passed down from her mother it has the birth of her first child which was 1892!! and her second child was born september 1897!! so she was pregnant again when she got married,5or6 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she was so religious, every sunday morning she would sit and watch the sunday service on the telli with her bible in her hands, maybe she was asking Gods forgiveness!!!!!!! she would always say sunday was Gods day,and you did nothing on a sunday,she must be turning in her grave now!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway, i brought my son up on my own,he's 27 now, so she couldn't really judge me could she????? chris.

Hi Valley, What a story! I've found out some amazing tales too--my Ukrainain great grandad (on Dad's side) had a wife in South Shields--and another one in the Ukraine! He also torched two businesses for the insurance! My Mam would love all this--she helped me do my first family tree years ago, and I still use that tree now. I just wish I had got all her family info from her before Alzheimers took all her memories away. I like to think she is looking down and seeing it all, and feeling proud. PS--can i throw Kiefer Sutherland into my one to one choice?

I'm sure you are right Valley, they would be proud. I endlessly tease Dad that all the villains are on his side! Mam's side is full of war heroes--and HUGE families! Can I also throw Emilio Estevez in? Then I have my own little brat pack! Got to get off line now--I'm getting one of those " Are you STILL on that bloody thing" glares!