Finding lost Somali relatives

[Warsame101]

A few days back, my cousins and I came in touch with a large reer Waqooyi family who were actually Reer Djibouti. They claimed to be related through us through my paternal great-grandfather's sister, who was their paternal grandmother (who mothered their father).

Apparantly, my great-grandfather's sister and many Somalis suddenly disappeared after the British Empire bombed Taleex and its surrounding areas. It was only few days ago that we found out what really happend to her. Some are still missing.

After the Taleex bombings, thousands of Somalis fled beyond Djibouti, all the way to Sudan. It was there that they re-settled and started new lives.

This explains the sudden post-1920 disappearances. Anyone else experienced similiar cases?

[Executive]

Wallahi that sounds very familiar

I had relatives that reached Djibouti

[Warsame101]

Wallahi that sounds very familiar

I had relatives that reached Djibouti

Executive, did they reach Djibouti after the bombings and were you aware of their existence or did you just discover it recently?

[Babygirl-]

Yes this happened to my family, few survived my Grandparents told me that when the men were killed at war with bombs and planes the women and children fled cause they would be raped and all the wealth would be taken, they came after my great grandmother and her children they tried to rape her she took a spear and killed one they cut her stomach open and a baby fell to the ground..the children panicked and ran each to a different direction from the thousands of cousins they lived with only 3 cousins survived, they found some of their female relatives married in many parts of Somalia. 1 guy was found in Italy and some in Kuwait, Ethiopia and Oman..we are still looking for some..

[Minneapolis Mayor]

I heard the largest Egyptian tribe is related to the hawiye People. Sheikh Axmad alxaawi(hawiye as somalis called him) had a brother Muxtasim alxaawi and a whole tribe descended from him. If we get contact with them, I guess a whole tribe would be moving to Somalia and they need to be accommodated.

[Warsame101]

Yes this happened to my family, few survived my great-grandparents told me that when the men were killed at war with bombs and planes the women and children fled cause they would be raped and all the wealth would be taken, they came after my great great grandmother and her children they tried to rape her she took a spear and killed one they cut her stomach open and a baby fell to the ground..the children panicked and ran each to a different direction from the thousands of cousins they lived with only 3 cousins survived, they found some of their female relatives married in many parts of Somalia. 1 guy was found in Italy and some in Kuwait, Ethiopia and Oman..we are still looking for some..

Babygirl, that's messed up. Similiary, some of my relatives are missing. My great-grandfather and his cousins were Darawiish hence after their death and the bombardment, many of my relatives scattered.

The ones you found, were they the surviving cousins or just their offspring?

[Babygirl-]

Offsprings and some old siblings or cousins.

[dawwa9]

I have Italian relatives that look 100% Italian but I am still 1/12th to 1/8th related to them, I heard of their existence few years a go..

[Cali_Gaab]

Yes this happened to my family, few survived my Grandparents told me that when the men were killed at war with bombs and planes the women and children fled cause they would be raped and all the wealth would be taken, they came after my great grandmother and her children they tried to rape her she took a spear and killed one they cut her stomach open and a baby fell to the ground..the children panicked and ran each to a different direction from the thousands of cousins they lived with only 3 cousins survived, they found some of their female relatives married in many parts of Somalia. 1 guy was found in Italy and some in Kuwait, Ethiopia and Oman..we are still looking for some..

[Advo]

Dawwa, same here.....I had an aunt who married an italian man and just disappeared when somalia was nabad, so I heard, then the civil war happened and people got dispersed all over the world and decades later, her daughter use to ask any somali she saw, if he/she was mareexaan and if they heard of such and such family name, she did that for years until she ran into someone that knew the family and it was about the same time, that the aunt's brother was in Italy looking for the family etc, at last everone connected and shid.

[sadeboi]

My great-grandfather had eleven brothers before the taleex bombings, only 2 came back to Cabudwaaq, qaar ba lagu sheegey Awdal iyo Djibouti ciyaal sheeganayo. It is weird but a lot of people got lost back in those days.

[CoolPoisons]

My great-grandfather had eleven brothers before the taleex bombings, only 2 came back to Cabudwaaq, qaar ba lagu sheegey Awdal iyo Djibouti ciyaal sheeganayo. It is weird but a lot of people got lost back in those days.

^^ get the fock outa here. didn't U say U were from Balambal?

advo half italian half somali kids are hot

warsame, U have too many IIdor connections. U need to be Marehanized

[CoolPoisons]

babyg, this Ali Gab IIdor doesn't believe U. set him straight that lil motherfocker

IIdor were Ingris coloborators. fockers never went thru struggle

[sadeboi]

Balambale my reer-adeer ma dego..and I wasn't talking about my reer-adeer.

[CoolPoisons]

Balambale my reer-adeer ma dego..and I wasn't talking about my reer-adeer.

^^ Habar Isse? what were Habar Isse doing in Taleh?