re: strategy for approaching possible cousins

X-No-archive: yes
David, it's not clear to me if you just wrote these potential
relatives a literary paper rather than calling them. Genealogy
research is not an exact science. finding relatives however is
"emotional",not clinical. I can tell you from personal experience.
Anticipate a positive outcome.

make sense?

Jacqueline Lerner aderman

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