26-12-2020, 08:16 AM
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I have a new cousin!
Email this morning from a guy in France - confirming he and I are cousins. I wrote to him some months ago after finding his possible connection on a DNA website. My French is so terrible I have to write in English and he's finally responded and has identified the link! I love this genealogy/DNA hobby!What a lovely Brexit gift.
26-12-2020, 02:54 PM
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Re: I have a new cousin!
Originally Posted by Fruitcake
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Congratulations. You can never have too many cousins. 
C'nest pas un problem por parley-vousing en Franglais.
I would run whatever you write through at least two separate translation programmes first though.
26-12-2020, 03:03 PM
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Re: I have a new cousin!
Originally Posted by Lindyloo
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His English is great so I've replied in English - safer than my dodgy French or translations.
Sounds like a perfect excuse to start learning a new skill, Lindy.
How exciting though, well done you.
26-12-2020, 03:13 PM
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Re: I have a new cousin!
Originally Posted by Mups
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Sounds like a perfect excuse to start learning a new skill, Lindy. How exciting though, well done you.
The first French cousins I found, I sent an email to them (having found their addresses on a genealogical site) and basically said:
"Je suis cousine"
Reply I received pretty quickly was:
"vous ete non mon cousine. Je suis non Angleterre cousine!"
I sent a link to my website: with "Oui! Vous ete mon cousine!"..........followed by a stunned response admitting that perhaps I was a cousin after all!!!
26-12-2020, 05:45 PM
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Re: I have a new cousin!
I had a similar experience while trying to do my family tree, the connection was a complete fluke, in that I came across a 5 year old post requesting details of a family that lived at a particular address which was where my long dead grandparents had lived. Anyway, it turned out that an aunt of mine in the 1940's had had 2 baby daughters adopted. None of my family from that generation were still alive to ask about it but no family members of my generation knew anything of this happening.Both I and the possible cousins gave each other details that could confirm the relationship, after which we arranged to meet and exchange some life details and on meeting we could see family facial connections as well. We are still in touch.
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