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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Which line to trace first?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:39:30 +0100
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**Family History anecdote alert - delete if you wish.**

Gerry Merrick wrote:

<<Another thing I've noticed is that if you do something for someone else
without worrying about personal gain you will benefit: while looking up
people from Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, to help a friend who assisted me, I
found my Co. Mayo ancestors through a militia record.>>

My great-grandfather had the unusual name of Alban Edgar Brunskill Davis.
Some time ago a Brunskill researcher contacted me hoping to find a link. My
great-grandfather had in fact been given the name of a clergyman, Joseph
Brunskill, who was boarding with my 2x great grandparents at the time. There
was no family relationship. But I helped the researcher with the limited
information I had on Joseph Brunskill.

Benefit 1: Two weeks ago the Brunskill researcher sent me the e-mail address
of someone else interested in Alban Edgar Brunskill Davis. She turned out to
be my 2nd cousin, a descendant of a branch which emigrated to NZ. Our
grandparents lost touch over 50 years ago.

Benefit 2: I wrote to say thank you to the Brunskill researcher & asked if
he had ever followed up Joseph Brunskill. Back came the information that he
had an excerpt from his diaries. This led me to the discovery that a book
about Joseph Brunskill & his diaries was published in 1995. I have the book
on order on inter-library loan & am hopeful that it will cover the period
when he boarded with my 2x great grandparents.

"Gerry's Law" has therefore proved doubly valid in my case.

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, UK





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