You can join several sites, if you so choose, to connect with long lost relatives. Many of these sites charge an annual fee to belong, but sites like Facebook are free. I have been able to connect with many cousins through this site and have been gifted with many photos of relatives that I did not have. I have, in turn, given the same photos to relatives who do not have these photos.
My mother has double cousins. Two sisters and two brothers met and married, making her share both sets of grandparents with her first cousins. Some of the cousins have lost touch with one another and some were closer to the maternal side of the family while others were closer to the paternal side of the family. Because everyone started to connect on Facebook, we began to exchange pictures and get interested in family history. Everyone now has the Ellis Island information and I received may photos in return of my grandparents when they were young. These are not things that can be replaced. A picture, once lost, is gone forever. In some cases, it can be all that anyone has to remember another person by.
Not only will you get more information when you join in with others when you are researching family history, but you will also get to connect with relatives that you never even knew existed in this manner.
Our family, because of our interest in family history, is planning a family reunion of my mother’s paternal side of the family. This reunion was brought about by a family that was all interested in family history and the desire to connect with other members who had the same ancestors.
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