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So I've been doing some genealogy work for a while now. Big Scary Man's father walked away from his family, joined the Marines and never went home again, and I've been trying to piece together some of his past, reclaim a little family history.

Looking for old records online the other night, I noticed a link for missingmoney.com - BSM's father is said to have abandoned an account because the money came from an uncle he didn't like. Type in his name - bingo! I've got a solid lead.

I was all excited so I typed in all sorts of family names. And I'm getting hits all over the place. $13 refund my brother never claimed. $100 in the name of BSM's grandmother. $1.76 for an uncle. Several hundred in the name of brother-in-laws ex-wife. Over $200 for BSM which didn't find him when he left for his first overseas assignment. Finally I type in my name and surprise! $156 HUH?!?!

I had a part time job for maybe, MAYBE - 2 months some 12 years ago. I had signed up for the stock buy-in and owned like .72 of one share of stock when I left, worth maybe $20. The market went up and down, the company with it and eventually the stock no longer existed. And I'm now owed $156.

Only the state wants an offical ID with the address from 12 years ago, OR a bill with that address. It was 12 years ago! I've moved several times and all mail from that era was shredded a decade ago. I don't even have tax records anymore!

But it was the address where I first lived with Romeo.

I've kept a file of vet bills for each cat. And although Romes has been dead 3 years, his file is still mostly intact. Every time I purged the file cabinet, I'd get all weepy over his folder and I'd put it back.

So thanks to Romeo, I'm claiming some cash I never knew I had from the state's unclaimed funds. Who says animals never pay us back for the love we give them?

That's wonderful, Elizabeth. It made me all teary eyed when I read the part about Romeo's records. Your love for one another is being rewarded in the most unexpected way. Just a little gift from Romeo.

In the late 70s and early 80s, I researched our family tree. It took me all the way back to 1480, thanks to the help of my Swiss cousin who had letters which were writen to his 3rd great grandfather by my fourth great grandfather in 1801. I loved the experience of searching for my ancestors. It took me to Switzerland to meet my 6th cousin. He showed me my family's house in the Swiss mountains which was built almost 300 years ago by my 6th great grandfather.
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Ruby and the Kitties
Simba, Samantha, Katrina & KatyKatt
Meow!! Meow!! Meow!! Meow!!

How wonderful to do nothing and then rest afterwards. Meow!

What a wonderful story and what a wonderful way for Romeo to show you some love in a memory years later!

I did some family research on my Mother's side (Dad was adopted). Found out I was related to Kit Carson. I brought this up at work one day while I was stationed in Germany in the late 80s, and one of the girls working with me said so was she! The irony was, we never really got along too well. She was kind of stand-offish (many said witchy). Well after this revalation, my "cousin" and I became fast friends. She came out of her shell quite a bit... We never really kept in touch, but it was neat to find the connection...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

Found out I was related to Kit Carson
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Way cool! That's a serious slice of western American history. I doubt I'm going to be able to pull off anything as amazing as 6 generations like Ruby, but its been like a treasure hunt.

Sad thing is I've found a first cousin we never knew existed. She left woeful msg. all over the web 2000-2004 looking for any family history and my parents specifically. But for all the dozens and dozens of web prints she left, it's like she disappeared off the face of the earth a year ago.

She left woeful msg. all over the web 2000-2004 looking for any family history and my parents specifically. But for all the dozens and dozens of web prints she left, it's like she disappeared off the face of the earth a year ago.

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I sure hope you find her!
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

Wow! Now how cool is that! WTG Romeo, still lookin out for your mom...
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PHTessie