Who we are?

Has anyone ever looked for relatives of the past. I have and what a treat, I have found folks that I thought would never be possible. Of course our internet is sooo helpful in that; before the internet it was a tedious process and you either had to make a trip to the area you thought your ancestors populated or write to some archiver and wait month for a return. Not any more! It is amazing what you can discover. A great big thank you to those that put this information on the big wide web.

My father had two great uncles immigrate from Germany before world warI, 1911 and 1913 and the stories that were given out thru the decades were flawed. I actually found their passenger records and copies of their WWI draft registration. At that moment I felt connected to them, as if I had met them and they were no longer lost in limbo. That euphoria was quickly squashed when I located one of the missing decendants and talked to him about were his folks came from and that there are many cousins still living in the same place where their great- grandfather was from; or that 10 years ago one of their sisters was still living. He seemed not interested and it goes to show that some sleeping dogs should not be waken. I do hope that I inspired him to think about his lineage and maybe one of these days his children will find the same facination as I have.

Like I said some folks spend years trying to find even a shred of evidence and here this guy was given the information without effort. I have only scrabed the surface I found out that there were two boys in that family and the one had many children so I am once again on a mission to locate them and hope I receive a warmer welcome to my information. Of interesting note... he knew this but is unwilling to share this information.

Our past is our window into the future.....