My father became quite ill at fairly young age and died in the mid 1980"s after a ten year illness. During those ten years, he often spent time in the library researching his family as well as cataloging and making notations on his family photos. He desperately wanted to locate family from his father's homeland as well as other family that had emigrated to the US.

In recent years, I had often thought that it was a shame that the internet wasn't available when dad was researching; and I often wondered what in the world I was going to do with all the ancestral photos that Dad had painstakingly made notations of who everyone was because I had no significant interest in doing any research.

And then.............I was contacted (via ancestry) and subsequently met a second cousin who was still living in my grandfather's homeland. I was immediately "bitten by the genealogy bug" and have carried on with the work that my Dad started. I feel connected to my Dad in this work and it makes my heart very happy.