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    Quote Originally Posted by Randi

    I found his address and telephone no. in Walla Wall... what a name for a town!! - and possibly a valid e-mail address, so have written a short note.
    Are you sure it's not Walla Walla? There's Walla Walla, Washington. That's not terribly far from where I live.

    Your family seems to have traveled much of the same path as my dads.

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    I have been following along with Randi as she has been doing her investigation. So exciting! An excellent resource, if you foreparents immigrated from Europe is the Ellis Island website. We found the ship, etc, of my grandfather on there.

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    I have been using this first one a lot. When you get on the site, click Advanced Search and then click IGI in the left side - type in the names and go to Region and choose. Take a look at the other links as well!

    http://www.familysearch.org/

    http://www.cyndislist.com

    http://www.ellisisland.org/

    http://www.genhomepage.com/world.html

    http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson23.htm

    http://genealogy.com/index_r.html

    http://www.ancestry.com/myancestry/

    Good luck hunting!

    Wenisrubber, do you know of a site where you can find people's e-mail address in Walla Walla? I do have the snail mail address... and yes, it is Walla Walla - it was a typo.

    Liz, I sort of drifted away from my dad's family too, he had only one brother, who had 3 children. The thing is, I have lived in Copenhagen all my life, my parents moved here in 1948, and the rest stayed in the countryside.

    I also found some pictures from the areas they came from here:
    http://www.grytner.dk/~grytner/H-Arkivet/index.htm

    Click on Billedsamlingen, and then Flere billeder.....



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    Thanks for the links, Randi!!
    The 4th one doesn't work...
    I miss you enormously Sydney, Maya, Inka & Zazou Be happy there at the Rainbow Bridge

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    Well Lut, it does for me, but I suppose it depends on what browser you're using. I use Safari. If you're on a PC, try Firefox or Opera, they're both good.



    "I don't know which weapons will be used in the third World war, but in the fourth, it will be sticks and stones" --- Albert Einstein.


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    It's been a few years since I searched for ancestors, but at my cousins 70th birthday party I st next to another cousin who is also interested in finding out more. He is using "Legacy" to make a family tree for our family - quite interesting. I haven't got the software, yet. But if any of you are interested in this, try it! The software is free.

    https://familytreewebinars.com/legacy_videos.php



    "I don't know which weapons will be used in the third World war, but in the fourth, it will be sticks and stones" --- Albert Einstein.


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    So fun! Interesting tracing relative forward as well as back!
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