Long Lost Family Connections And “The Lost” Ones

  How to see lost in family connections? How to see lost as gain? How lost might be lost? How lost might be found?

Long Lost Relatives:
Relatives who we didn’t know anything about until someone started searching.

I don’t know how many times, I’ve come across long lost relatives as I’m searching for my family connections. It’s exciting find them. Some of us exchange what we know. Some of us keep in touch.

Family Connections Lost
Those family connections who lose contact through the years
(Family connections lost can at times, be found, only if someone reaches out.)

Through time, family connections can drift away with little to no communication. There are cases when the connections are completely lost and maybe broken.

I searched to find some of lost family connections, it see what happened to them.
There were some, I still don’t know. There are (and were cases), I’ve come to discover that they become ill. And there were some who passed.

Lost Information
Information that’s lost through the generations: Information not recorded, no passed down, distorted by whatever reason and or misplaced.

There are records, photos, letters etc. that have been lost through the years. Things that have been past down, maybe misplaced or forgotten. Material lost due to accidents or distorted. We can think that the family history is lost as well. Is there anyone keeping up with their family history?

Then again, we can think that what we are searching for is completely lost.
We don’t know where to search. There may be someone who has done the work that we are searching for. However, if we don’t take the time to search, how we can find anything without looking? We shouldn’t expect others to do everything for us. We should do some searching for ourselves and experience the joy of discovering our family history.

People compile data and so forth. Those things that we haven’t yet discover. Only if we can make the connections with what we think has been lost. This is an adventure.

I had thought that when my Grandmother Mary Anna (Allen) Lankford / Lankfard passed in November of 1975, that all the family history about her was lost. Oh, how wrong I was. The family history is still there.

Even with not knowing who’s who on the family line, we can think that that is lost. Through time, there may be some clues to reveal what was lost. We have to keep looking. I can testify that what I thought was lost, became a miracle in the making. I searched things out, with the help of coarse.

What about “The LOST” Ones who know something about their ancestors?
The sadness thing about “The LOST” Ones…. they can lose interest and or don’t want to know anything else about their family history. They appear to be interested, but are not. Is the family connections being lost or appearing to be lost with the living?

We can keep living in the darkness of our family’s past and not wanting to invest into leaving a legacy for the future generations. Or we can do something about it. We have all the technology to share with our present world that we live in for the future not yet born will be thankful. The choice is up to us.

Don’t let your family connections be lost and forgotten.
Hope that others will have a desire to start and continue to search for their family history.
For those who are searching, keep searching. You might stumble across your family connections.
For those who were adopted or don’t know your family, if you can, take a DNA test.
I hope you will connect with relatives.

I took this photo of a street. It’s a street well traveled by my relatives and ancestors.



Thanks for reading,
Long Lost Family Connections And “The Lost ” Ones: Week 42 In 2022

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Susan Ann Blakley on another of my websites. 
I added the In Remembrance:  Family Connections. 

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God Bless
S.A. Blakley

Week 42 ~
Amy Johnson Crow ~ Generations Café #52Ancestors 52 Weeks ~ facebook group

This week’s theme is “Lost.” As family historians, we deal with a lot of things that are lost or on the verge of it…  memories, records, people…  This week, you could explore something that has been lost or the experience of losing something.