It's a Small World, After All...

I posted an inquiry on Rootsweb in 2002. Someone responded in 2003 by saying he had bought an old photo album with the names I was interested in among others. Someone else responded in June 2004 by saying he had bought the photo album. Then I finally looked at the responses and my heart sank.

Last week, I tried to e-mail the man who had bought the album. Of course, it wouldn't go through, so I left a response to his. The next day, he e-mailed me saying he was the father-in-law to a man who was related to some of the people in the album. I recognized the son-in-law's last name, so wrote back both to him and to a man I had met at a family reunion in June 2004.

He wrote back and said he was both men -- one by first name, one by middle name and he was the man I had met at the reunion and he had bought the album in Columbus on their way home from the reunion.

He's promised to send a CD of the scanned pictures 'when he can' and I can't wait. It's difficult to comprehend what a small, small world it is sometimes. I'm glad I made the posted comment because otherwise I would never have known about the album. It will be a joy to see pictures of at least a dozen of those family who came before. They are of the ilk of those who began the family reunion in 1930.

Sometimes we win even when at first we think we lost...