For a while now I have belonged to another forum http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/index.php?
and when I can I do searches and help for new members.
A few weeks ago I helped a new member from Holland with her English research. She jokingly offered to search Holland records for me. I sent her the name of a Dutchman that had married into my dad's family and also mentioned my Mam was Belgian. Well it turns out that she "knows" folk with the same names and will be making enquiries

I wonder if it will be a happy coincidence?

It IS a small world Deja.

Its surprising what can happen because I once read of two brothers meeting up in North Africa during WW2. Both were in the forces but in different parts of it.
Neither had seen the other for many years due to a family rift.
It must have been a terrific moment meeting up with a sibling after many years especially in the middle of a war.

Monsy wrote:I wonder if it will be a happy coincidence?

knowing my family...

I can hear the skeletons rattling the cupboard doors now

I've got a sort of a "visiting card" which I think is from the family in Holland that my dad was billeted with during the war, and a good few pictures of him and his mates with them. Often thought about tracing them before my dad died..but didn't, and now it's too late.