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My grandfather's Uncle Kazimer and Aunt Ona left Lithuania in 1900, which was earlier than most of the family left. They moved to England to live in a small Lithuanian community in Manchester. They had two little daughters there. In early 1904, the family was hit by a flu epidemic going around England. Both daughters died, one being two and a half and the other about nine months old. Kazimer and Ona, distraught, left England in search of a better life in America. Here they started their family again, and the two daughters were not mentioned very much. In fact, nobody remembered the girls' names after Kazimer and Ona died. Their children have all died off as well. My dad's cousin (the granddaughter of Kazimer and Ona) told me last year that there were two daughters who were born and died in England, yet nobody knew anything about them. I wanted to find them so they could all be sealed together (we sealed Kazimer and Ona and their children born here in the US in December). I looked many times for the girls' records, but to no avail. I kind of gave up last year and figured I would probably have to wait until the Millennium to find who they were. However, I felt impressed to look through some random British records on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning (as I was in class, actually...). These were records I had searched through before and found nothing, so I wasn't quite sure what to look for. However, after a bit of looking and playing around with the name spellings (their last name was spelled like five different ways by the British), I found the two girls whose dates and birthplaces made them very likely candidates for the two daughters. I sent the info to my dad's cousin, and she felt very impressed that they were the two girls looked for. She's not a member of the Church or anything, but she had a very strong impression that they were the two daughters, so much that she told me she was sure that they were the girls. I felt the same. We found them! We were able to seal them to their parents yesterday in the Provo temple. It was wonderful. I am sure they were all happy to be together once again. I can't imagine how it was for Kazimer and Ona, too. Imagine losing your first two children, little girls, to disease in a foreign land you really didn't know, with most of your family still in the old country. They died over a hundred years ago! They have waited that long to be found and rejoined to their parents.