Can Rootschat members help? - Lost Teddy Bear 'Seeks' Owner

[trystan]

I agree, t would be great to know. 

Sorry, but we've not been informed by them, so we're none the wiser either. I'll see if I can find anything out. 

Trystan
RootsChat Caretaker

[Rosinish]

Hi RC's,

It has dawned on me that this "investigation" has been going on since May/Jun - 3 & a half months.

I have seen more updates on live murder cases & lets face it, the people involved in such sad endings have living relatives who are identifiable so WHY such anonymity regarding a lost teddy 

I don't see the reasoning as, with the info. on here re BDM's, I think we know where any "living" relatives can be found 

We only want to know if Bristol Airport are any closer to "closure" & was it with the help of dedicated RC's who have gone to such trouble to point Bristol Airport Staff in the right direction

Annie

[KGarrad]

The sound of silence would tend to indicate that it was all a publicity stunt?

Or is that me, being an old cynic?!

[Rosinish]

Yes K - Deafening!!!

I'm not getting quite what the publicity stunt would have been for though?

Annie

[Treetotal]

What useful purpose would such a publicity serve 
Carol

[elin]

The ted might be planning a career in the music business!

Elin

[Hampshire Lass]

Didn't we say there was a show at a Bristol Theatre at that time which may have indicated it was a publicity stunt?   I would have thought if that's what it was then any teddy with a message attached would have sufficed.....not such an old and valuable teddy, with an historic postcard attached.

Annie, we probably do all know who the living relatives are and where they are, given all the research facilities we have at our fingertips. The relatives are possibly ill and therefore have never bothered to claim him back.

It just would be nice to have a proper official update on how it's all ended.
If a letter was ever written by RC did we have a reply? 
If the letter was sent to the address we have, was it forwarded to the person if they are no longer living  there? You would think they would have responded one way or the other.
If it was left to the airport to follow it up, did they bother?

So many questions and an official update would be good because lots of people spent lots of time on the research. Without a reply to our letter, if we sent one, it beggars the question, did we have the right family?

[Ruskie]

A long thread which I have just briefly skimmed over to refresh my memory, but I thought that early on questions were asked of those at Bristol airport and I don't know if answers were ever received. Didn't Trystan at one stage even request a better photograph?
Lots of unanswered questions and loose ends all round ....

[loobylooayr]

Still would doubt a kiddies theatre show at Bristol would have instigated such an elaborate publicity stunt (leaving an old Teddy and photo 14 months beforehand and hoping the airport would campaign at the right time to find it's owner) for a show that would probably sell very well without it.
However it would have been nice to have had an update - even if it just was that the bear's owner (no names) had been traced, especially since so many Rootschatters gave up time to research for the family.