Every few months I take time to write to several elderly relatives just really to keep in touch and check in on them. However, I also ask them a few questions about the family and about recollections of their early years. Sometimes this triggers memories and new facts for me to add to my research. Well, today I received a large packet from an elderly Aunt. I had written to her many times and my sister even drove nearly 500 miles to see her, to try to find out more infomation on this side of the family. We were never able to get much and have thought maybe she was getting Alzheimer's. Well, the packet came in response to my latest note to her and my asking for a few birth dates. (She said she was sorry about not sending it sooner but couldn't remember who wanted the information.) She finally sent me all the family group sheets on her whole family--- parents, brothers, sisters, children, etc! Also she enclosed a picture of my father as a child --- one I had never seen. But the best part was a copy of a newspaper article from 1935 that told about my great-grandfather and grandmother. In the article it gave the married name of my gr- grandfather's sister and where she lived in 1935! I had lost track of this sister. So the ending to this rather long story is to never give up trying to get a little more info from your relatives. Keep up the correspondence. Karen