Connecting with kin

I got your latest issue of Family Tree Magazine last week, and was very interested in the article about finding relatives on the Web (April 2001). Last year I had been contacted by someone who had seen my surname list on RootsWeb and asked if I would like to put my part of our family history on a name Web site she was setting up. Along with my part of the tree, I sent her an old photo of four men, one of whom was my great-grandfather, the rest unknown, taken outside the family-owned tripe factory in Leeds, England. In early February, she again contacted me, saying that someone had seen the photo, recognized it and could name all four people! It turns out that her third-greatgrandfather and my great-great-grandfather (who was also on the photo) were brothers! Also, her great-great-grandfather was a witness at my grandmother's wedding (I knew the name but had no idea who he was). I now have a whole new branch to my family tree.