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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 9874892, member: 33&quot;]Once I posted an old photo to a Facebook group that works on reuniting photos with relatives (there are several groups like that). It was a picture of a toddler who grew up to be a dentist, as I recall. Anyway, one person in the group scoured Facebook and found a descendant of this dentist and suggested I contact the descendant. I did that. Eventually she got back to me and said she wanted the photo. I mailed it to her... no thanks from her, though. Just &quot;I would like it&quot; and that was it with no more communication after she sent her mailing address. At the time I also paid postage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a happier experience with a wedding photo from the 1890s that I bought in an antique mall. It had a lot of genealogical information written on the back. This was in the earlier days before Facebook. I posted on a genealogical forum, and a local historian from the area where the people lived wrote back to me. He said he personally knew a great-granddaughter of the couple. He offered to be a go-between. I sent him the photo, and some time later received an extremely nice note from the great-granddaughter, thanking me for sending it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also sometimes contacted relatives of a person,&nbsp; and they never replied. In one case, I did a lot of work to even figure out who the descendants were and what their current address might be.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, mixed experiences there. One reason I do very little research on these now is that I have several times spent lots of time on research that came to nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I had an entire album, though, that would be different. I would feel compelled to find relatives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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