Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >(I'm part of a branch of a family that was "found" in the past few
> >years. Got a call right after a Super Bowl, from my father's second
> >cousin. Guy lives in Gonzales. Never met him yet, but we e-mail a
> >lot. I got my favorite cousin in touch with him last year, and she's
> >very happy about that.)
>
> My family was recently "found" as well. It turns out my grandfather's
> brother, Anthony, had a fling with a woman while stationed in Europe as WWII
> ended. He was then shipped home, apparently never learning she had gotten
> pregnant by him. The woman then moved to Canada, where she met and married
> someone else, who raised the baby girl, Julie, as his, along with several
> children he did father. Only when the woman was on her death bed, (when
> Julie was in her late 50's!) did she reveal to Julie that her 'father'
> actually wasn't her biological parent, and who her father really was, along
> with a few old photos of him.
>
> It took Julie a while, but she finally managed to track our family down.
> Unfortunately, her father, my Uncle Tony, had died a number of years
> earlier, and neither of his two children she reached wanted anything to do
> with her (mostly I guess they both had some other issues going on and
> didn't want to deal with her). But Julie stuck with it and with more
> research, she tracked down my mother and a few other relatives, who were
> fascinated by the story and much more welcoming. Just 2 weeks ago, Julie
> came down to NJ for my cousin's wedding, so I got to meet her, 2 of her
> daughters, and her grandaughter. Very fun.
Cool! Our "lost" branch wasn't quite as dramatic a story as that; one
of the daughters in a family which was in Arkansas at the time married a
man working in Texas, and then they left Texas a number of years later.
So the folks following the trail in Texas came up empty-handed, but
someone managed to find records elsewhere about the family relocating to
Virginia. I'm not sure that Cousin William has managed to find any
living part of that family besides my grandfather's descendents, but
that's *something*, at least. (My grandfather was the youngest, and
born in Virginia. So I had ancestors *in* Texas before Dan did, but he
had ancestors *born* in Texas, which is more than *I* can say.)
None of my father's family made it to my wedding. My sister will be
getting married next year, and it looks like she's going to manage to
get at least some of our uncles, aunts and cousins from that side. (At
the very least, our cousin Margaret, whom I've never met, lives & works
close enough to where the wedding will be that I'm fairly certain
*she'll* show, and then I'll get to meet her!)
Julia
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