Phones ringing at 5am are either bearers of bad news or a seriously wrongly dialled number. When my cell phone rang it’s tune - Anarchy in UK by the Sex Pistols as it so happens - at 5am on Sunday morning, I awoke from restful slumber with a start. Looking at the number on the phone, leading with 0033 - I guessed that they may have the wrong number, so opened and closed my flip.

This effectively ends the call - I think I even turned the phone off!

And so back to sleep I went.

When I did eventually wake and decide what or who tried ringing me in the morning - I looked up which country 0033 belonged to. Arrh - France it is. Then I got thinking - I had via this website had some persons register from France and who had also been looking at the site. I had sent an email to one of those persons and it had included my cell phone number.

So I rang the number back and managed to start speaking in my New Zild accent with Corinne. It was very exciting - as we are 5th cousins and I know that Corinne was from a missing branch that had headed off to Burma. Thankfully, Corinne’s English is significantly better than my French - so we were able to have a conversation of sorts.

So due to the establishment of a French connection we have enabled a French language option to choose from for the Genealogy section.