[email protected] wrote:From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:55:47 -0500 Subject: FOUND and a huge Thanks To: [email protected] Some of you may recall when I asked about mid August if anybody had access to Oregon newspapers, as I believed that I had found a long lost cousin [deceased], whom I had been looking for -- for more than 30 years. Trish offered to try to help find the obit for me ... Apparently the first email did not go through and yesterday I got the obit -- Bingo -- it was who I had been searching for. I just got off the phone with her brother -- who I was able to find through the obit. What a wonderful conversation that we had -- and how much I found out in our rather short phone conversation. Instead of ending with two people who were born in the 20's, I now have names of their 7 children and am well on the way to recording their [combined] 24 grandchildren and even more great grandchildren. I was not sure how my call would be received, but then I remember how Val encouraged me to contact a different cousin a couple of years ago. That cousin passed away just a few weeks after we spoke. So I picked up the phone and called -- as soon as I told him who I was, he mentioned my Uncles name -- my mother's brother. A special thanks to Trish, and also, if somebody will pass this on to Val -- Thanks for giving me the courage to call. Melvin is 77 years old.......... and sharp as a tack. This List really does Rock ........... Sharon Buethner The Happy Dance in My House, tonight. ==== COOK-CO-IL Mailing List ==== Please Visit the Cook County ILGenWeb Genealogy Website sponsored by RootsWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcook/ Ellen Plourde http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~opindex/