Breadcrumbs...

[heymarky]

Not sure if this is appropriate for this board since it ultimately involves a different board...
and connecting with Dyer cousins here in the US...
Who didn't know that their family was from Scotland...
But what the heck!

Out of the blue I got an email from Robert Malcolm Dyer, checking to see if my email was still valid. I assured him that it was and asked if he thought we were related. Lots of Roberts in my Dyers and Malcolm is a common middle name.

He wrote back saying his Uncle Peter Dyer had forwarded him one of my long-forgotten messages left on one of the genealogy boards (genforum, if you must know)

I had known for some time that some of my family had gone to Washington State but hadn't had any luck finding decendants and had kind of assumed that a lack of boys had caused the Dyer name to fizzle out up there.

Now I am in touch with several Dyers from that branch of the tree!

Thanks to some bread crumbs I left on genforum, they found me! Maybe someday I will get a surprise email from Dyers (or other cousins) in Scotland! I'd better get busy scattering some more breadcrumbs!

The moral of the story is to put as much information as you can out there so that someone can find you.

The fun part is that Robert lives in the same town as a cousin on my mother's side. Looks like a visit to Washington is in order!

[SarahND]

Very good news! Nice to hear that some of those little seeds dropped on the ground a few years back are finally bearing fruit! (How's that for a family tree metaphor? ) By the way, I thought of you last week when I was driving up the 5 and saw signs to the Winchester Mystery House. It's been a long time since I was in San Jose, but for some reason that stuck in my mind!

Sarah

[heymarky]

I thought of you last week when I was driving up the 5 and saw signs to the Winchester Mystery House.
Sarah

Weren't you just in Belgium? You don't stay put, do you?

The Winchester Mystery House seems a fitting metaphor for genealogy general, don't you think?

PS.
Just got a call from my new Uncle Peter. (my nth cousin, once removed, but I think I like "Uncle Peter" better).

70 years old, lots of family history knowledge, fun sense of humor, just hurt his foot so he is laid up and has lots of time to type up notes to send me! (We had a good laugh that this was fortunate for me, but not so much for him; that's where I infered that he has a good sence of humor.)

[SarahND]

You don't stay put, do you?

Nope Back in MN now

Glad your "new" cousin is turning out to be a nice guy! (you never know...)
All the best,
Sarah

[kathyc]

Sarah, well done with the metaphor.

[joette]

A wonderful tale & great news for you.I have left lots of breadcrumbs too & my most succesful have been Ancestry(found my 2nd cousin),Genes Reunited(loads),Lothian Family History Society-solved the mystery of my long lost Great-Aunt & found two new branches of the family in BC Canada(via Ancestry also).
Not forgetting Rootsweb.Funnilly enough I have not met any on TS so far but that doesn't stop it being my fav. Well unless Tracey & I can find that McKimmie connection!