------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 05:05:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dotben@aol.com To: B530-L@rootsweb.com Subject: My Husband Has No Known Family Please Help Me? Hello, I am very sorry, I am Dottie Bennett and I have no idea who I am requesting this information from. But what ever the cost is, Please fell free to contact me at Dotben @aol.com. My Husband is Richard Gordon Bennett. Our problem is that Richard is 63 years old and has no known relatives. We do not even have much information or even sure if the little bit Grampa {JOHN J.BENNETT OR just JOHN BENNETT} born he said on his Social Security records November 10, 1907 told me is correct. Grampa John Died March 14,1990 and carried his secret to the grave. He would never talk about his Parents, relatives or past, with his family. Grampa John told me that when he was 14 years old he ran away from Lancaster,Pa. that would be about 1921. He said he went to New York City and worked there in a deli. Then he met a man that owned a store in Sprinfield, Ma. & that that man gave him a job. My husband & I went to Pa. and found nothing, but remind you we have no idea if we did things right. We also wrote to Vital Records for his Birth certificate in New Castle, Pa. to find his Parents names, the results came back blank. We went to the Social Security Office because Grampa John is deceased, and they even showed us the screen it had no Parents but it did have his birth date of November 10, 1907. I have written 324 letters to everyone with the name of Bennett around Lancaster, and received many letters & again no relatives. Now we went out and got this computer with hopes to find something. Could you please help us or would you have any information on where we even start the search. Our anniversary is April 30th and any information I could find for Richard would be the best gift. We won't do those talk shows like Oprah or Unsolved Mysterys. Thank you for taking the time to read our letter, Dottie