More interesting is their personal relationship to each other precluding men and other women. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM, hum.linda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi gang, > THought this might make your day. > In todays Time-Standard (Eureka,CA.) comes this fairly large news > item,but I'll shorten it considerably for you. > > SOUTH LAKE TAHOE ~ An undated photo is found of 2 twin ladys, and was > the only item the El Dorado CO. Sheriff's office had to work with. It is > unknown which sister is which. Authorities found the 73 year old twins > dead, together, in their South Lake Tahoe home on 26, February. > It took 11 days and the help of dozens of strangers, but the girls have > been identifyed as Patricia and Joan Miller. but police had been able to > locate any of their family members. > Pat and Joan Miller lived for nearly 40 years in the Tahoe area, but > often shunned their neighbors. Their shared life ended in a mysterious > double death. One sister died in a bedroom , the other in a hallway. > Labs will take approx 2 months. Police don't usually release the names > of the dead, but no family were immediatly known of, so investigators > issued a public plea, asking for any help in locating any relatves to > notify about the deaths. > The responce was overwhelming. E-Mails and phone calls poured in and > with the help of amateur genealogist, who read over media accounts of > the sisters deaths, inverstigators tracked down a 1st cousin and 2, 2nd > cousins as of last wednesday.. > They were tracked down by the "at- home" genealogy sluths, who passed on > the information and contact info to the Sheriff's Office. 1 sluth even > contacted a cousin to confirm their relatioship before telling the > Sheriff. 1 of the cousins lives in San Francisco, the 2 other live in > Portland Oregon. As to date, no will has been found. > Genealogist found this info: > Father: Elmon "Bud" Gordon MILLER. > b: 1895, Bremen, KY. > occ: Dairy Salesman, Oakland, CA. > Mother: Faye LANG. > > Amazing story don't you think? > > ~hum.Linda~ > Words are the window to the Heart. > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >