Yesterday I did something I feel really good about. I helped my aunt find her best friend from elementary school she hasn't talked to in 44 years. For years when my aunt talked about Marilyn, she would always end with saying, "I would really like to find her, but I don't know where to start."
Well, yesterday we started and stopped in about three hours thanks to the amazing invention called the Internet. Marilyn moved from Pine City in the 1950s to Sioux Falls and had a common maiden name which is next to impossible to find someone as there were 22,500 hits for her name on Google.com. Finally I was able to track her down through Classmates.com and Ancestry.com from South Dakota, Texas, New Jersey and finally ending up in southeast Iowa.
My aunt called Marilyn last night for a long overdue talk and are going to meet very soon.
The best part is Marilyn even invited me.
Well, yesterday we started and stopped in about three hours thanks to the amazing invention called the Internet. Marilyn moved from Pine City in the 1950s to Sioux Falls and had a common maiden name which is next to impossible to find someone as there were 22,500 hits for her name on Google.com. Finally I was able to track her down through Classmates.com and Ancestry.com from South Dakota, Texas, New Jersey and finally ending up in southeast Iowa.
My aunt called Marilyn last night for a long overdue talk and are going to meet very soon.
The best part is Marilyn even invited me.
Comments
yes, that is way way cool.
see, i know God is the one who runs the internet :))
he he.
Also am doing a lot more genealogy if anyone needs anything.
Carey- Thanks for remembering my crazy family so fondly. We are tight, sometimes too tight but I wouldn't want it any other way.