[or-roots] Exercise in futility

[Babe Fain]

Hi Les and everyone,

Never say "exercise in futility" because you never know what can happen and
this is why.  I had been looking for my Mother's sibling and trying to
complete their records.  I had posted an inquiry some time ago and never
received a reply.  Well, this last summer, I was contacted by a lost cousin
who is in his 70 years old.  Yes, I said 70 years old.  He said he was
thinking it was about time he found his birth mother.  You see he was put up
for adoption along with his younger brother when he was very young, about 2
years old by their mother who was very young and unable to care for them;
she had been abandoned by her husband.  Through me, my cousin was able to
find out what happened to his birth mother and to make contact with her
three other children she had after marrying again and two brother from his
father previous marriage.  He was able to find what happened to his father
also.  He was truly thankful for the information I provided to him.  This
can only happen if we ask for help and people are willing to share.  

Respectfully
Babe
I am currently seaching for information on the Picklers, Wilks, Robbins,
McDowalls, Knapps, Conquests, and Currys 

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
Chapman
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:57 PM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: [or-roots] Exercise in futility

I think I have talkeda bout this before, but ran across this from a cousin
of my wife and thought I would throw it out there in case someone connected
to the other side of this story is looking for information.

I have sort of hidden some of the identities here though anyone who knows me
can certainly fill in the blanks

Les C

Anyway it seems to me that you spend more time on the computer than just
your average Joe.  I am not real good at finding a lost brother or whoever
but with the information mom has given me, I would think this is a case for
one of those TV talk shows.  You may already have this information and I don
't know that but I can tell you what mom said to me.

The baby was born in the Toledo  Hospital in the fall of 1949.  Mom said
your mother-in-law went into the hospital under the name of Arlene Evans,
that was the "other woman's" name and her nickname was "Stoney".  His name
was George Evans and his nickname was "Curley".  Mom said she didn't know if
they were married  but had her doubts.  The father passed away a few years
later, about the time this George Evans (Jr?) was some-where around the age
of two years old.  Mom knew that Arlene (Stoney) had breast cancer and knew
she had one removed but thinks that was quite a few years later.

I'm sure if you sat down with mom and asked her questions, she could
probably give you a lot more information.  But this is all I got in one
setting of maybe a half hour.

Everybody is entitled to think what they want, but me personally, I would do
every thing I could to try and find him.  You guys should not have been the
ones to miss out in knowing this brother.  Maybe your mother-in-law did make
a mistake (as is how she is thinking) but as we all know, we do what we do,
day after day, good, bad or other-wise, but it is impossible to take a day
and think you can do it over just because you made a mistake in it.

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The point here is that if this Mr. Evans (or whatever name he might be going
by now, it sort of sounds like he might have ended up an orphan from a
father and mother that he never knew was not his birth mother) is out there
he has two living half brothers and a half sister he probably has no idea
exist and they would like to meet him.

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