Finding our lost family

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This incident happened in the early 1960's to my Parents :- > > My Grandparents were refugees from Belgium during the First World War. They settled in the UK and had 7 children (2 of whom were born in Belgium) one of which was my mother. In the early 60's my parents along with my mother's brother and wife went to Belgium to try and make contact with the Belgian side of our family. May Grandfather had had a little contact with his Belgian relations but it was rather sparse. My parents duly arrived in Brussels and took residence in the Hotel Metropole. The our of then soon went out to the nearest bar but were having trouble ordering and making themselves understood. A Belgian who was a Concierge from their hotel came and offered to help them with their order. My parents then asked him to join them and bought him a drink. They then explained why they were visiting Belgium and they only thing they had was a picture of a young girl on a swing. The Belgian look at the photo carefully and said that that looks very much like my daughter in law when she was a young girl. It turned out this was true and she was indeed one of our relations and it led to finding a whole branch of our Belgian relations with whom were are still inclose contact today. > > It was an amazing co-incidence that the first conversation my parents had led to finding our Belgian relations. > > Yours sincerely, >
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:22:29 +0000Coincidence ID:5013