From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Sep 10 03:28:36 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 k8A9Sajb017592; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:28:36 -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 k8A9SWwB015577 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:28:32 -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 k8A6lNFI027480 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:47:23 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8A6lNTD027479 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:47:23 -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 k89IeGFI026202 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 14:40:16 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k89LLD1Y027958 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:21:13 -0600 X-Envelope-From: marilyneb@gmail.com Sat Sep 9 15:21:13 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 k89LLDjb027947 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:21:13 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k89LL8kY027814 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:21:09 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so985513uge for ; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:21:09 -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=bWRtqV3kV9+wjenBH+OU+om/ouYaT70ekgGJGmfy8gnZzzGEPtXZPz46Z9HsSzbOZptxK+s/Vt1VnEO63EsYE0xeUrSmqvUjtyC/LGFA5creCbS2TmTOApmyW9ijib2qRnvavC+pq2vmWeS7fO4DgWjO1D0AOj5x+j5wfK/V5z0= Received: by 10.67.89.5 with SMTP id r5mr1853587ugl; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.236.16 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 14:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <65d66f240609091421o628e3d47g34b86d6f4a25ae3b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:21:08 -0500 From: "marilyn e brown" To: "Patricia Sears" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Why won't my cousins talk to me? :) Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <003501c6d429$b75645f0$3eed8a48@KSCGNB02> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <003501c6d429$b75645f0$3eed8a48@KSCGNB02> 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 Patricia, I can only sympathize with you and tell you what some of my cousins told me face to face. "I don't look back" and "If it doesn't deal with the here and now, I'm not interested." I am lucky in that for almost the last 200 years the majority of my family lines lived in one area. The only problem is they have intertwined many times during that period and the in-law information would make it much easier. All I can send is sympathy. Marilyne On 9/9/06, Patricia Sears wrote: > > Hello list, > > Probably like many of you, I have good information on my English, Scottish > and Canadian family lines up to around 1901-1911 because of availability of > b/m/d indices and census data. But after that, it becomes more difficult > as government records are private. I've gleaned a lot of info from > marriage/birth/death notices in local papers. Due to some unusual surnames > in my family, I have been able to trace probable living relatives on the > web on sites like www.411.ca. However, when I send letters of inquiry, > introducing myself and my genealogy interests, and inviting them to trade > family history information, I either get no response, or a few tidbits ( > i.e. "I have a son Tommy and two grandsons Tommy Jr. and Jimmy.") with no > other important details. This is starting to become very frustrating. Any > suggestions? > > Patricia > Ottawa, Canada > >