Repost for Lorraine Price: designtherapy at cox dot net ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY! I AM VERY HAPPY TO REPORT THAT I HAVE FOUND MY FATHER'S FIRST FAMILY, and in less than a month! After having found some very important documents on Ancestry.com, my real success was through THIS Azores Genealogy group. E Sharp in California "adopted" me immediately (See her entries below.) and provided me with all sorts of leads.
One of these leads was an obit that led me to a woman who turned out to be the widow of my cousin. This widow then got me to my deceased cousin's other cousin who turned out to be my half-sister, the only remaining child from my father's first family. She is still alive and at 92 is living in MA. Her daughter, my half-niece, contacted me and we have already established a close bond. After the family circulated the info among the whole family, I heard from 2 more half-nieces. Everyone I've heard from has been very gracious, warm and receptive to the surprise info that I've provided them. (To this point, everyone thought that my father, their grandfather, had died long ago. They didn't know about me and his second family.) We have exchanged family pictures, have seen family resemblances, and have made tentative plans to visit here in VA and in MA. Everyone wants to keep the new bigger family connected. I continue to be absolutely amazed at how this has worked for me - first finding out that my father had another family decades before I was born and then finding the family. I can't say enough good things about how this Azores genealogy site works! I thank all of you who have responded with good information. And I can't thank E Sharp enough for her help with this search. I could never have accomplished this without her! Good luck to all of you in your searches. If there's any way I can help you, I'd be happy to try. As for me, I'm off to the Azores next summer to visit a cousin who still lives there! Thankfully, and still in shock, Lorraine -- Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
