Finding long lost cousin

[mollykins]

Me and my cousins Niamh who both want to do marine sciences are looking for another distant cousin who also wants to do something similar.

But there's noone left in the family that knows both sides so it's incredibly diffilcult to find them. They're my great nans cousins great great grandson (don't ask me to put the apostrophes in that) but we're pretty sure that they're in the year below me.

We know that it's a male, probably in year eleven, and that he goes to a grammar school (or somewhere else for intelligent people) somewhere in the midlands, but that's about it, apart from the name of our common ancestor.

Is this a hopeless cause or is there a way of finding him?

In slight hope of finding him, Niamh has posted a message on a student forum that is mainly used by students of higher ability but he might not go on there, and we can't think of anything else, as there's noone else in our family that knows anyone else in this other persons . . .

[B00]

Do you know his surname?

Try searching FaceBook?

[mollykins]

Helen that's what I heard off of my nan, from my great nan, but she doesn't know much about him or even exactly which cousin it is.

Not really boo seeing as we're pretty certain it's down a female part of the family and we don't know the last names, but on the message niamh left, she did mention a few family surnames he might recognise even if they aren't his.

This is why it's so tricky.

[mollykins]

She has early alzheimers so can only remember certain parts of what her mum told her . . . fyi helen, and we can't talk to my great nan now anyway.

[ummmm]

Niamh doesn't exist. Niamh...aka nix...is just your other user name. Anyone who read you being caught out with this rubbish will remember..

[mollykins]

We were on the same computer! Speaking of the devil, she texted me earlier on saying the ed has emailed her saying she hasn't been on for a while, but apparantly she has more of a life now, even though she's on anothe forum, although i've checked it out and she doesn't post much.

[ummmm]

Yeah right...!!!

[ummmm]

Where was she born again??

[mollykins]

Uummm anyway that's not the point, we're trying to find this cousin of ours and need help.

[mollykins]

I don't know the exact address, I can't even remember her birthday, or my parents birthday, I'm useless at remembering numbers in general, I can only remember my pin code for my cash code because it's a number that if i can't remember, I can work it out.

[milly143]

Would it really matter even if Molly did have another ID?

Have you tried using a combination of their first names with all the surnames you can think of within the family?

[dotty.]

is that for the account you are allowed to use?

[mollykins]

Don't know his first name, and like i said it's down a female side of the family so at least one of them will have been married and changed their name.

[mollykins]

Dotty, i'm allowed all of them now.

[dotty.]

plus, a 'long lost' cousin is hardly someone under 16. he'll still be at home with his parents

[ummmm]

Niamh is still her alter ego.

[mollykins]

Dotty, well we've never met him or anything. Maybe we'll find him and his family in time for the wedding and my 18th!

helen, working out numbers using formulae written down for you, is completely different to remembering a phone number/ pin code/ birthday.

[mike11111]

I'm beginning to think that DocSpock might have been right all along.