Shall I Write?

[elinga]

well of course I will let you know if I get a response, good or bad!
fingers crossed ;-)
Elinga

[EeyoreBlue]

Hi Aulus

I'm afraid I was in the same position as you - no response, even though I enclosed an SAE.  I even sent a form giving them option to send it back saying not interested.

It was my second attempt, which I explained (I wasn't 100% convinced I'd got the correct address at first), saying I didin't know if  they'd received the first letter, but if they weren't interested then I would understand, but knowing that they had actually received the letter, I could 'cross them off' so to speak.

Never mind.  As previously said on this thread, it wouldn't put me off trying again.

EeyoreBlue

[mare]

Certainly worth giving it a go Jen and elinga ...

... and like you Aulus, when my M-I-L was in failing health 5 years ago I probed for a little more information on her father, my husband had never met him as he was estranged from the family.( i.e. grandfather, divorced when daughters were young teens ) With very little to go on other than a highly unusual first name, I've pieced together quite a lot ... only with help from RootsChatters of course. Discovered though that he died about 3 years after my husband and I were married and I so wish we had thought about looking him up way back then! Also recently, while on our regular visits to his last remaining daughter, I dropped his name into the conversation yet again and was surprised to learn that he had gone to see her a couple of times in his last couple of years but she'd never mentioned it before .... and of course we were all in the same city !


  modified typos and made it clearer that it was not my husband estranged...