Dear Sir, or Madam, or who ever gets this,
If I have not sent this to the best place could you please forward it to where you think best. My name is Mark Felsher and I and my family live in the USA. Six years ago we adopted a nine year old boy from an orphanage in New Deli. He has been able to recall a number of events from his early childhood and we have reason to believe that he may have lived in the Goa - Karnatika area from the time he was born until he was about five years old. His mother, father and grandfather all died in about 1996. He does not know anything about his grandmother or his younger sister. His name is now Ambrish and he was born in about 1991. He does not think this was his name when he was growing up and we do not know any other family names, but we do have a few stories that might be remembered by someone there. In about 1996 his mother was working in a mining pit, collecting some kind of small stones from brown dirt (we think they were diamonds), when a digging machine with rubber tires and a scoop with teeth on the front rolled into the pit where she was working and struck her from behind and killed her. There was no driver on the machine. Shortly after that she was cremated on a wood raft on a river. His mother had also been a cook for the workers in the mine. At that time the mine had two pits. Ambrish's father was a taxi driver. He drove a yellow and black taxi, (three wheels). I do not know if there is a place that would have records of taxi drivers who died in about 1996 in that area. Ambrish's mother died first, then his father, then his grandfather. He last saw his younger sister as the two of them were crossing a busy street and she fell in front of a car that ran over her leg. She was quickly taken away in another car. Here are some other clues that we have; Ambrish remembers walking to a river where the water tasted salty. He remembers white (European looking) people living in the area and they spoke the same language as he did; probably Cannada. He could walk to his grandparents house in several hours and they lived not too far from a railroad station. In about 1995 Ambrish spent some time unconscious, in a hospital, because his father hit him very hard, on the head, with a metal pipe. They lived a short walk from the diamond mine. We have been looking at pictures of the Goa - Karnatika area on the internet and he has recognized three pictures: He recognized a park in Mangalore where he went with his grandparents. He believes they took the train. He recognized a picture from Hampi and believes his father drove the family there in the taxi He recognized a dirt road with businesses, in or near Karwar. He believes that he, his mother and sister walked there, but only once. At about the age of five Ambrish got lost on the trains and wound up in Deli. If you can think of any way we can use any of these clues to try and find out who Ambrish's parents were we would be very greatful! Thank you, Mark Felsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read all Goanet messages at: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------