Mom wanted to know if he was still alive and alright. I had not been looking for him at all. He was not hiding very well. If you search his name it comes up on 9 web pages. And he is listed at anywho.com. Just had to figue out which Robert of the 3 it was. Mom happened to be going to California to visit her brother, so she checked it out. Another Robert lives in Texas, as does my other brother. He was next for a visit , if this one did not pan out. I wrote all 3, and none answered. He was 6 years old when our dad died. He went in the moving truck with him alot also. He remembers the good times before our dad died and left us flat broke. Mom had a 6,4 and 2 year old, and my other brother was born 2 weeks after our dad died. He may be hostile because Mom went to the store wher he worked , only to find she was supposed to be dead. This will make him look bad to his boss. Who was kind enough to show mom a few pictures. And even gave he one. I think he inherited that brain tumor that makes you lie about your family. Ruth Miller wrote: > > Mary, > > Why is your brother hostile? Did he have a falling-out with the family some > years ago? I gather he is not from your father's "other" Californian > family, but has the same father and mother as you ... I don't wish to pry > if this is sensitive, just trying to work out the "story". Were you trying > to contact him to help piece together your father's history? > > Pat, > > You may have misread the intentions of the person trying to unsubscribe. I > doubt if he meant it as any sort of insult or ungraciousness, he just > wasn't aware of the procedure and happened to reply to one of Pat's entries > in his attempt to contact the list. > > I agree with everone else ... please keep contributing Pat! The list > wouldn't be the same without you. > > Ruth > > >There was no reunion, and it looks like there may not be one. > > > >He was not at work when she went to the store. > >And he came back from vacation that night. I had sent him an e-mail , > >per mom's request. As he would have just hung up on her if she called, > >and he did not get home until late from his vacation in Barazil. > > > >These e-mails are from before he went to work the next day. I guess he > >was PO'd > >that we caught him in a lie. And so had his boss, seeing his dead mother > >standing there. > > > >Maybe after he calms down. > > > > > >answer to 1st e-mail: > > > >Just who do you people think you are? If I wanted to have any contact > >with > >you (which I emphatically don't), I would. We have anti-stalking laws > >here > >in California and ANY attempt to come to my place of business will > >result > >in legal action. You have been given your FINAL notice. IN the words of > >Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand, "the most precious right of every > >American is to be left alone." > > > > > >answer to my answer to the first, telling him we are your family: > > > >Hate has nothing to do with anything, _I_ have made a choice based on > >things that are important to me and this YOU must respect. I have a > >different family now and any further interference in my life will not be > >tolerated and will not be of any satisfaction to any of you. > > ==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com now has more than 200,000 subscribers! To celebrate, > access to ALL of Ancestry.com will be free from July 18 to July 31! > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/freepromo.asp?sourcecode=A11AM -- (o o) ------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------ Mary Stickney International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists (IBSSG) Proud owner of 6 BlackSheep 1 murderer, 1 bank scammer, 1 Incestuous pedophile, 1 deserter, 1 car thief 1 forger of government documents (my dad, still can't find who he really is/was) http://blacksheep.amity.org/ http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=stickneys http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/ http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0058photo.html http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0057photo.html