Snail mail has been able to give me a lot more information in the past months.
I have been looking in the White pages for my grandfathers brothers family (Harold James Peters). Since he has past I had no information on his family. So I decided to look up his two sons: John Peters and Ronald Peters in the ID/CA area. Turns out its more of a common name than I thought they would be. So I tried another path: looking for their mother Virginia M Powell Peters. Turns out I had more luck this way.
I still found 4 but 1 emailed me back telling me she was not the correct person, 1 came back to me as a bad address, 1 have not heard back from, and the last letter went to a neighbor of my great aunt who happens to have the same name (Virginia Peters) and have lived next to each other for over 25 years.
I can imagine they have been receiving each others mail for many years and I'm grateful they happen to live next to each other still. My great aunt Virginia M Powell Peters King was remarried after Harold James Peters passed away.
In her return letter to me she was bale to correct a few mistakes and fill some blank holes in my research. The first mistake was my great uncles middle name I had John and it was James. Little things like this can alter your research.
John Peters is interested in the Peters side of the family so I'm so excited to be able to link him to all my research.
I have been looking in the White pages for my grandfathers brothers family (Harold James Peters). Since he has past I had no information on his family. So I decided to look up his two sons: John Peters and Ronald Peters in the ID/CA area. Turns out its more of a common name than I thought they would be. So I tried another path: looking for their mother Virginia M Powell Peters. Turns out I had more luck this way.
I still found 4 but 1 emailed me back telling me she was not the correct person, 1 came back to me as a bad address, 1 have not heard back from, and the last letter went to a neighbor of my great aunt who happens to have the same name (Virginia Peters) and have lived next to each other for over 25 years.
I can imagine they have been receiving each others mail for many years and I'm grateful they happen to live next to each other still. My great aunt Virginia M Powell Peters King was remarried after Harold James Peters passed away.
In her return letter to me she was bale to correct a few mistakes and fill some blank holes in my research. The first mistake was my great uncles middle name I had John and it was James. Little things like this can alter your research.
John Peters is interested in the Peters side of the family so I'm so excited to be able to link him to all my research.
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