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Will do sent an email but haven't heard back yet

was just emailing Helena, is your username on Ancestry your email or something else as I am sure the first thing she will do is the DNA lookup on Ancestry. I actually don't use it although I did have an account at one time

I'll ping Helena - is there a way for her to reach out to you. I assume you must use ancestry and she must as well i guess

yep that's correct, definitely sounds like there is some close association with Mavitta. Helena might be able to shed some more light on the US side of things. One thing I do remember is that the Mavitta's in the US/Canada did not have any children, he may have remarried, I would have thought...

Unfortunately i don't know much about the Mavitta's in Canada/US I just remember that my uncle Gerald (actually great uncle) who was Helens's father had visited relatives in US. Helena lives in Boston and there are tons of cousins on east coast (Gerald had 9 kids) . I am in N.Ireland. My...

the Helena you mention , isn't Helena Cramer is it, if so that is my 2nd cousin

That is correct, Alice Mavitta is my great grandmother. Something else is I think there were Mavitta's in Ontario or possibly NY as well as I know my uncle in Mass visited them. That wouldn't be your father would it

Hi , I haven't done any DNA but will do that and let you know , I just remember a vague mention of a Mavitta who went to Canada probably because of some form of mental illness caused by the war, I think he was sent to Canada maybe to recover

There was something I remember about one of the Mavitta's who went to Canada I think he may have has shellshock after the war