Don't give up on the dating sites. They are not ALL scammers on there.

In fact I met my young lady through dateinasia.com.

You just have to become savvy at weeding the scammers from the genuine....and there are many many thousands of genuine ladies on there.

Your idea of contacting a family you once knew sounds a bit 'desperate' to me. lol. (no offence intended ).

A trip to the Philippines will really put everything into perspective for you, and it is a FUN destination anyway.

Should you wish to confine your search to the UK, then yes there are plenty of (single ???) Filipinas here, but you also have stiff competition in the 'wooing' stakes.

Quite a few Filipinas on here looking for a good man of course.