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Serendipity or what!! From that chance one-off meeting I met many of her relatives who were able to fill me in with so many details about our American connections. But that’s another story….
Great anecdote!
I have a website with all my FH. I came to an end of one line in 1715 in Hampshire near Winchester. One day I had an email from a stranger living in Germany. She had just bought a deed in a car boot sale which mentioned my ancestor and his brother. She sent a copy. Because of it, I was able to trace the birth of my 1715 forefather to Henley on Thames and got back several generations to the 16thC. They were bricklayers and built many houses in the town and their work survives to this day. The lady who found the Deed, made me a gift of it. Some relatives with the same unusual surname still live there. All this came to light because of a find in a German car boot sale, a caring woman and a website.