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Have you any family members you have no contact with? (both)

Is it your choice or theirs?
I have not spoken to my Mother for at least 40 years and do not know if she is still living.
Unfortunately she beat her children without mercy before leaving. She left when I was 7.
I went to see her when I was 19? and asked why such brutal beatings and she had no satisfactory answer.
I have 4 siblings, all of whom fled Tasmania because of the sad home situation.
I have no idea where two of them are.
One died of alcohol induced injuries aged 32.
I tracked down the whereabouts of my younger brother whom I last spoke to in 1995.
His phone number was in my mobile for over two years before I finally rang.
Got an automated answering machine with no owner's name. Left a message, never heard anything.
Lost that opportunity. Not going to try again.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Yes. And they know how to contact me if they really wanted to.

One stole my father's side of the tree on ancestry.com without even dropping a mention to me. His mother was my half sister and no one in the whole family has mentioned that she is dead.

I learned about it because ancestry itself made reference to her death with the death certificate record.

2006 was the last I heard from them.