I have read a few of the mails on facebook and genes reunited, I would just like to say that Last year I reluctantly joined facebook, did a search on my 'Gagg surname and sent out over two hundred messages to 'Gagg's 'asking if they would kindly send a card or letter to my gt uncle Fred Gagg who was coming up to his 100th birthday on the22nd of October. I also gave some info on my family, the Gagg family history website I run and asked if they were interested in giving any info of their own. Obviously a lot of the 2'00' Gagg's were related to each other, sons' daughters etc. So I did not expect to get replies from all of them. The response was astounding, Fred received letters and cards from all over the world , I had many more come to me for him and had lots of info as well. We found members of the gagg families that had lost touch over the generations and added a lot more to our family histories. All these months on we are still in touch, some of the Gagg's have met up with others. My cousin Pat lives in Canada and through genes reunited a few years ago we found a part of my gt granddad's family that we did not know existed. The coincidence was that Joan lived in the same small town as my cousin Pat's daughter Debbie and her husband Mike. Joan's brother owned the local car spares shop where Mike and Debbie were regular customers not knowing they were related. The two families are now friends and regularly meet up. I now have 'wedding' photos of my gt granddad and gt gran, letters from his brother and other photos , poems etc that we never knew existed. Going back to facebook, I found some Gagg's also living in Kingston, neither Joan's family or Debbie's family knew of them, they are now in touch with each other and we have added another layer to the 'Gagg' family history. I have many more stories of people found and information exchanged by using genes reunited and facebook, including finding a lost part of my mum's family in Australia and seeing photos of my granddad's father and his half sisters that we had never seen before. So in conclusion I would say try them , phrase your inquiry in a friendly manner , offer a little info and ask if they would like to give some of there info, dangling the carrot of more info in exchange. You might be pleasantly surprised and could find that lost piece of info that has been bugging you.. Alan