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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 0 Send Message	Paula	Report	10 May 2006 08:14
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 0 Send Message	MAUD dodgshun Wilson b.29.04.1885 daughter of Thomas Wilson and Ann nee Spencer of Keating Street,Holbeck,Nr Leeds. This,my grandmother was the only one of the Wilson family to bear the name Dodgshun. As Dodgshun is such an unusual name and concentrated in Morley and an emigre family in Australia I am trying to find why my grandmother was given that name.Various theories have been put forward like an unofficial adoption of a very new baby when the rest of the family went to Australia.Any suggestions or clues would be very welcome.

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