Connections: Introduction

Over the past several years, I have met many people who either thought that they had some connection to my family or turned out to be long-lost relatives. This has been especially true since I published a website. People go out on the internet searching for a particular surname, and they readily find my site. I have to say that this is one of the truly touching rewards of the intense labor of genealogical excavation. Of course, we are all part of the same human family, but there is no more intense reminder of this fact than when one is aware of the common ancestry that he and a living correspondent shares.

I hope you find this documentation of some of these contacts to be useful or interesting.