This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/4dW.2ACEB/232.336.877.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Irvin I have only just started searching my ancestry. I started because my children don't have any living relatives on my side of the family in Australia. Both of my parents have passed away and we lost all contact with our relations in England, so for their sake I have decided to show them they are not alone, so to speak. To answer your question I am not sure of the state of relations in England, I have both of my parents birth certificates and their wedding certificate, so I have at least got a good start, they go back to my grandfather, and from there I was linked to my great grandfather, on my fathers side who also came from England. Like you there are many versions of Flynn along the way. According to my parents when they were alive, we came from England, Ireland,Scotland and Wales so this should be quite an interesting journey trying to find out all the details of the past. I also started this on the hope I may find my sister Carol Pauline Flynn nee Cannon, who disappeared off the face of the earth over twenty years ago, dispite the fact there was a large police search back then, I thought she may have finally decided to start looking for her family if she is still alive, it would just be nice to know if she is. The one thing I have learned about the Flynn's they not only change there surname parents have changed the first and second name around, when I joined the army I received a copy of my birth certificate, only to find my name was Alice Dorothy, when I asked my mother she said she had a fight with her sister Alice and changed my name to her other sister Dorothy to teach her a leason.