That's very unfortunate, and very common. I had to research my own grandparents all by myself, and the first photos I ever had of them came frmo third cousins, and it wasn't that my father didn't have a whole collection! You'll just have to get busy and research them yourself. We ought to be able to help. Tell us everything you know about them. Dates and places of birth, marriage, death. Dates and places of birth of their children. Where you know them to have lived adn when. Adn what they did for a living. Never mind speculating on whether they were Jewish, wealthy or lawyers at this point. Maybe they were, and maybe they weren't. That sort of intuition is useful to keep in mind for when it makes a difference and you have no idea where to search next, which isn't yet the case. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Erin Walsh" <[email protected]> To: "WISE" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:59 PM Subject: [WISE] Family Tale > It seems that several years ago my Great-Uncle, Jim Richardson [ father: > William Harmon RICHARDSON mother: Louetta Christine WISE ] got > interested in climbing the family tree. Lucky for him many of the older > generation were still alive to talk to. Unlucky for the rest of the > family he found some information that "disturbed" him. He boxed > everything up and stuffed it in the attic, or somewhere, that has since > become unavailable. He _never_ would talk about the family after that > > Family speculation was that he found out the WISE branch was Jewish. > > A few years ago I mentioned this story in a genealogy chat room. One of > the participants opened a private chat and asked me how I personally > felt about that possibility. I told him that I had already found a big > time lawyer in my tree so..................no big deal. [ Now don't any > lawyers on the list start flaming me - OK. ] He said that was a pretty > good attitude. > > -- > > > Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. > > > ------------------------------- > 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