I found my living Bowden family in Georgia by sending a letter to all the Bowdens in the Athens city directory. It works. Virginia Smith Louisiana -----Original Message----- From: bowden-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bowden-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of hwedhlor Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:56 PM To: bowden@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BOWDEN] Seeking the father of Reobert Edward Lee Bowden Thanks, Karen. If you think it's nice to read, you should see it from my point of view. <BG> Calling Bowdens in the area where my family was from is an excellent suggestion, and a valid, and often successful technique. It's on my list to try, and I'll report the results to the list once I've done that. All the best, John Zimmerman Mesa, Arizona andover-mg@juno.com wrote: > What a nice story. I do hope you can connect all of your dots. One of the > things that has worked well for me is just to cold call other Bowdens in > the area where your family was from. Usually someone by that name knows > other family members working on the family tree and will share with you. > Karen Stone > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:17:51 -0700 hwedhlor <hwedhlor@cox.net> writes: > > ------------------------------ Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the Bowden surname (and variations) in any place and at any time. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOWDEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message