Monday, August 25, 2008

Family Tree

My mother who is 87 asked me to see if I could find an old family friend of hers from high school. She knows how much fun I have using the Internet to locate old houses where we had lived and places we had been. So armed with only a name from 1943, I surfing the World Wide Web.

The first search yielded three million hits. So I called mom for additional information. She found middle initial. Bingo, in the 1930 blue book of New York Society, I found a listing for his mother and two sons from Scarsdale.

Searching high and low for her friend that is the only item for him. I could not even find a family tree site. Mom had lost touch with him in 1950. So I searched for his brother. I found nothing for that name but plenty for his possible son a junior.

Bored, I decided to search for mother. Her name is uncommon Antoinette Coon Dunlevy. I found relatives from her father’s side of the family looking for her. I found several family tree sites with her information and mine too.

Now, I am hooked up with several locating family and friends sites. It is fun and I am going to use a free web site http://www.gotogails.com/new371934.html to get my parents family tree branches listed.

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