Well today was a very nice day for locating a cousin once removed. He more my father cousin but for some reason my grandfather and great uncle lost communications. I had inherited my great aunts photo collection and decided it was time to start scanning each image onto the computer to create a slide show DVD once completed. I suspect I will be creating two DVD as this is a very large photo collection from 1920 - 1980s. My great aunt died around 1995. She was also the person that got me into genealogy. Well this lost cousin sent my great aunt a lot of WW2 photo and later sent a picture of a house that belonged to his son. It was the only clue I had that said my great uncle had a son. My dad denied the fact he ever had a son. Anyway on back of picture it stated My son "his name" just sold his home and bought this home in "city" NC. So I got a name and went to www.msn.com and opened their white pages and did a search for my cousin name in town listed. Bingo I have a name that matched and an address. I have installed a satellite image program called google earth. You can just type "google earth" into any search engine and be taken to install page. Anyway I pluged in my cousin address from MSN whitepage into google earth and it took me to his house. As I inspect the picture of his house I can see fencing in back of his house and see a house behind his house with an off centered fireplace. He also has a two story house and I can see this from google earth along with the power line that hanged across the top of the picture I can see power pole from google earth in front of his house. It looked like a perfect match. Since the picture was taken in 1977 I was skeptical. Is he still alive? I missed one cousin by 3 month. Does he care about knowing his Hunt family side? I suspected if he wanted total privacy he would never had popped up on MSN white page. I called him this morning and he was very receptive he turned out to be very interested in family and the history of our family. I am very excited with this and looking forward to reconnecting a lost connection in our family lines. I offered to purchase a DNA kit for him and he agree to take the challenge. I told him my dad has this issue where one side of the family told him he didnt look like a Hunt so in back of my dad head he ponder this. I am hoping this new found cousin will be a 100% match so my dad can put that issue to rest once and for all. =) I hope you all enjoyed reading this and I thank you for taking time to read this. Allen Brian Hunt SC > AZ > CA
At 12:25 AM 5/28/2007, you wrote: >Well today was a very nice day for locating a cousin once removed. He more >my father cousin but for some reason my grandfather and great uncle lost >communications. Congratulations Allen ! ! I am so happy for you. I started a My Family site for my Shumate family and we are having a ball finding each other, exchanging information, and getting leads to more information. Hazel Scanned for viruses by Blue Coat http://www.WinProxy.com/
Fantastic! Hope we can all find a cousin this year. Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "a.hunt" <a.hunt@comcast.net> To: <Hunt@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 12:25 AM Subject: [HUNT] Long lost cousin located > Well today was a very nice day for locating a cousin once removed. He more > my father cousin but for some reason my grandfather and great uncle lost > communications. > > I had inherited my great aunts photo collection and decided it was time to > start scanning each image onto the computer to create a slide show DVD > once completed. I suspect I will be creating two DVD as this is a very > large photo collection from 1920 - 1980s. My great aunt died around 1995. > She was also the person that got me into genealogy. > > Well this lost cousin sent my great aunt a lot of WW2 photo and later sent > a picture of a house that belonged to his son. It was the only clue I had > that said my great uncle had a son. My dad denied the fact he ever had a > son. Anyway on back of picture it stated My son "his name" just sold his > home and bought this home in "city" NC. > > So I got a name and went to www.msn.com and opened their white pages and > did a search for my cousin name in town listed. Bingo I have a name that > matched and an address. I have installed a satellite image program called > google earth. You can just type "google earth" into any search engine and > be taken to install page. Anyway I pluged in my cousin address from MSN > whitepage into google earth and it took me to his house. As I inspect the > picture of his house I can see fencing in back of his house and see a > house behind his house with an off centered fireplace. He also has a two > story house and I can see this from google earth along with the power line > that hanged across the top of the picture I can see power pole from google > earth in front of his house. It looked like a perfect match. > > Since the picture was taken in 1977 I was skeptical. Is he still alive? I > missed one cousin by 3 month. Does he care about knowing his Hunt family > side? I suspected if he wanted total privacy he would never had popped up > on MSN white page. > > I called him this morning and he was very receptive he turned out to be > very interested in family and the history of our family. I am very excited > with this and looking forward to reconnecting a lost connection in our > family lines. > > I offered to purchase a DNA kit for him and he agree to take the > challenge. I told him my dad has this issue where one side of the family > told him he didnt look like a Hunt so in back of my dad head he ponder > this. I am hoping this new found cousin will be a 100% match so my dad can > put that issue to rest once and for all. =) > > I hope you all enjoyed reading this and I thank you for taking time to > read this. > > Allen Brian Hunt > SC > AZ > CA > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUNT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message