Gudmund Andreas Lundbech

This is the passport photo of my Dad's father, Gudmund Andreas Lundbech, who emigrated from Denmark to Cardiff, Wales and married a Welsh widow, Catherine Stone nee Smith.
As Lundbech is an unusual name I have a habit of checking lists and was interested to see a Per Lundbech on Flickr with a photo of a bird on what looked like a Danish roof. So......... I wrote to him asking if he were a "Danish Lundbech" because my grandfather... etc. etc.
I should say that very, very little was known by us about Gudmund's family in Denmark, other than his father's name and that he came from Odense and worked in a Wire and Rope Factory.
Well, incredibly, Per wrote back and informed me that we were related (distantly) and that his father was passionate about genealogy and had hundreds and hundreds of names traced including Lundbechs (our direct family) back to the late 1600s.
You can imagine that my Dad was thrilled - he hadn't even known his grandmother's name, let alone his GGGGG grandparents.
Last week Per very kindly sent me files with all the information, which I've put down on my "ancestral scroll" as my kids call it. I love to see it all laid out - what a sense of history and family. There are some real mysteries that we puzzle over - for instance - my Dad's father had many siblings that my Dad knew nothing about - including a sister , born the same day as my father, (different year) who emigrated to New York and died in Brooklyn in 1954. Perhaps more things will unfold, but what a gift this is,
Thanks so much to Per Lundbech and my deep gratitude also to Aage, his father!