Writing letters to strangers

[1000xlch]

Hi everyone

Read the posts and I agree Rootschat really is the biz, found some info from various SKS  and I have helped a few people as well.  Have not had a bad experience with GR as found 3 third cousins in a week of rejoining.  Keep having a steady stream of enquiries and have sent a few myself and usually have a reply back.  Only one vague connection has replied but not send any further back detail but as it was only a spouse marrying into the family of a brother of the gg father I am researching then it is not a big loss, but I do like to collect all the twigs and branches as it does help you get over the brick walls that we all find.

I rarely surf the net now as it is a few sites I just visit.  Rootschat is top of the list after checking the email to see if I have a reply from ..... you guessed it Rootschatters! 

I have written to various strangers and they were all relatives and quite happy to share by snail mail etc.  There is life yet in the universe, and its all related not "just visiting"

Cheers

John Rowley

[kerryb]

I think I must be quite lucky, I have made various contacts through GR and Rootschat, now that I have learnt to 'take the plunge' and I have had one through GR with a no reply.  Downright rude.

I have had a reply to one enquiry that was basically, you silly girl if you had checked LDS you would see my G x 3 Grandfather couldn't possibly be yours. 

Ohh sorry!!!      We can't get it right all the time.  Particularly as this is getting a bit like a cross stitch, I am working with so many strands, I occasionally forget where I am!

Know that feeling?

kerryb

[the happy granny]

My brain gets addled too Kerryb...........juggling with loads of balls in the air one occasionally drops them!!   

Sue     

[1000xlch]

I lost the marbles ages ago when I reached more than 100 in the tree.  After 7 years now have 12,500 between me and my partner!  All over the country and some more worldwide like Canada, USA, NZ, OZ and South Africa.  Problem is I cannot even remember my direct line on some days! 

Cheers

John Rowley

[tulstig]

wow john, 12500 - how long did that take ?
and I thought I was losing it with my 1400,
Still doesn't mean I don't want replies to e-mails,or letters.

Mark

[1000xlch]

Hi mark

7 years to find info, most of it net based census cd 1881 and 1851, IGI etc and contacts like rootschat and Genes Reunited and mailing lists, but I do go to the archives to check further back.  Do find dead ends though and brickwalls.  I always collect every twig and branch and remote connection through marriage etc from anybody as going sideways helps you go backwards quicker.  Any scrap of detail is useful.

Cheers

John Rowley

[tulstig]

I've just been at it a few months - and agree about getting all the bits & pieces together- but it leads me on so many tangets I forget what I was doing when  i first sat at the computer - ah yes this time I came to turn it off (2 hours ago!!)

Mark