My grandfather Annadown told me all his life that he lost his VIVIAN (his mother's brothers children) cousins in the great flu epidemic. In this case, it turned out that the families simply lost contact with each other in this time period and because of the wide-spread flu, he thought his cousins had died. Years later, I located them, very much alive and glad to know that THEIR cousin, Paul Annadown, had also NOT died in the great flu epidemic. Leila -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] Hint regarding mystery of Folks who disappeared in 1918 - 1919 I too have family who died of this flu, my grandmother, my Aunts husband, she was left with twins, and two other children, she kept the baby, her husbands sister raised the boy , a twin died, the other was adopted. and when you mention soldiers over seas, my husbands Uncle died in France, Oct 1918.he is buried there in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, we do not know if he was a casualty of the war, or got the flu. The above except for the soldier, all lived in Cornwall, Orange Co. New York. <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- 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