From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Aug 12 20:20:52 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7D2Kqjb016592; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:20:52 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7D2Kp4i008765 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:20:51 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7CNfLFI003635 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:41:21 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7CNfL9r003634 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:41:21 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7CMbHFI003449 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:37:17 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7D1GbAp012886 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:16:37 -0600 X-Envelope-From: martinfamilytree@gmail.com Sat Aug 12 19:16:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7D1Gbjb012875 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:16:37 -0600 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7D1GKrN021704 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:16:20 -0600 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so844714pyd for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:16:21 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=T0pflLuF590MdgPf51+MC5Ejt4VjLzQVfXH2x5Am+osFx+1O5b2hB1YNFIHRTAQ3t9vzGBNUjKKuAlTDrNTwUQM5gBY7NwtcjHAs9IDkL6AEvm0CjUIW+b5pAKKVvtPK7xHvXiwjp4b2H+lso5k5jirThyOVm9CwYdU0eCOIyFg= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr9708184pym; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.93.6 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:16:21 -0500 From: "ctm 007" To: "Barbara Green" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Pen Pal from 50 Years Ago Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <44DE61E9.5070701@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <44DE61E9.5070701@earthlink.net> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Hi Barbara, Yes, there are lots of suggestions and here are a few: x- Your friend has the advantage of the Internet & it's vast database to use to find her friend but with the world's bad guys of today, I would suggest your friend use an aliase as her given name. Let's assume her her name is Judy, then I would suggest an alaise of "summer-of-57" and she could acquire a gmail account as summer-of-57@gmail.com and use that as a contact identity. x- use www.google.com and the key words "metello ghibaudi", turin, italy and there should be several hits to investigate and then go back to www.google.com and use the key words "metello ghibaudi", regina margarhitta, italy. While at google.com, try these key words with google's Web, Images, VideoNew!, News, Maps, & more. Metello may today be in the news or videos or even have his own community named after him and that would show up in Maps. x- If the key words search at google.com does not result in good clues, then consider entering the search words "find people" and that will return many websites where one could enter the name and city and country and maybe get a hit. x- also, accept the fact that Metello Ghibaudi may already be in heaven and if that's the case, try ancestry.com for help. Carl On 8/12/06, Barbara Green wrote: > > A friend of mine would like to get in touch with a man who was her pen > pal 50 years ago. She lives in the US and he lived in Italy. She did > meet him and stay with his family in 1957 when she was on a bicycle tour > of Europe. She asked me if I knew of anyway to locate him and the only > thing I could think of was to ask the people on Rootsweb if they knew a > way to go about it. This man's name is Metello Ghibaudi, he was 17 at > that time, and lived in Turin. His family had a summer home in a little > town about an hour outside of Turin and they took her there. The name > of the town is Regina Margarhitta. If anyone has any ideas she would > appreciate it. > > >