LONDON, 2016-Aug-10 — /Travel PR News/ — British Airways and Ancestry, the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, played a very special part in an emotional reunion, between three sisters who met in person for the first time on board a flight from Austin to London. A video documenting it has been released today. Watch it here.
Mandy Shore (71) from Ilchester, Somerset, was adopted during World War II. She had managed to find information on her birth mother, but details of her father remained a mystery, until she initiated research around her family tree through the AncestryDNA database. To her surprise she discovered her father had two other daughters Lynn Garner (now 65) and Ann Burrage (now 61) with a later partner, who both lived in Texas.
British Airways and Ancestry heard about the family’s story and agreed to try and re-unite the sisters face-to-face in London, but the meeting came earlier than expected as the airline invited Mandy out to Texas to surprise her half-sisters, on their flight to Heathrow.
Mandy, said: “The whole experience has been incredible. I knew meeting them would be emotional, but surprising them on the flight made it so special for us all. The cabin crew made an announcement over the PA, and the look on their faces is something I’ll never forget. We spent the first few hours of our journey to London just laughing and crying, as the enormity of what was happening started to sink in.”
Sara Dunham, British Airways’ head of marketing, retail and direct, said: “Flying is not just about getting from one place to another, it’s about the magic of bringing people together to create memories. Amazing things are happening all the time on flights across our network, we were so pleased to be a part of this very special reunion for Mandy, Lynn and Ann.”
The experts at Ancestry have pulled together some top tips for people planning special journeys to discover more about their family history:
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For further information, please contact the British Airways press office on press.office@ba.com
Mandy Shore is available on selected dates for interview. Please contact Fran Catling: francesca.catling@ba.com
About Ancestry
Ancestry, the leader in family history and consumer genomics, harnesses the information found in family trees, historical records, and DNA to help people gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Ancestry has more than 2.4 million paying subscribers across its core Ancestry websites and 2 million DNA samples in the AncestryDNA database. Since 1996, more than 18 billion records have been added, and users have created more than 80 million family trees on the Ancestry flagship site and its affiliated international websites.
Ancestry.co.uk contains more than one billion records in collections including the most comprehensive online set of England, Wales and Scotland Censuses from 1841 to 1911, the fully searchable England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, the World War One British Army Service and Pension records, UK Parish Records and the British Phone Books.
Ancestry offers a suite of family history products including Archives, Fold3, Newspapers.com and AncestryDNA sold by its subsidiary, Ancestry International DNA, Unlimited Company.
SOURCE: British Airways
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