I got a super pleasant surprise today. I run a photo gallery as part of my website. I don’t really do a super job in maintaining it, but I have a lot of old photos up there and I have several registered users (in-laws mostly) who upload photos of their own. As a registered user, you can see all the photos, but there are ways to “sneak in the back door”. Doing a Google search, you can find the pages directly, or you can go directly to a “secure” page if you know the URL or if something else is linking to it.
Back to my post for today… My great, great grand find was a couple of emails I got today. I have a cousin, whom I’ve never met and hardly knew existed, who did a search on her father’s name. With that, she found a picture of her grandparents (my great, great grandparents) on my blog. Isn’t that exciting?
This is the comment she left next to the photo:
I linked to this picture from Google, doing a name search on “Walter Rodway.” This picture is the first one I have ever seen of my grandparents together when they were young. I think that makes you my cousin! (My maiden name was Rodway and both my father and grandfather were Walter.) I’ve been looking at all of your other family pictures too and really enjoying them. I only wish you had names on more of them. I saw a cousin I remember (by her face) that I met her when I was a teenager, but I do not remember her name. I also am enjoying the backgrounds on the Newfoundland pictures, because I have never been there.
The internet really makes the world small, doesn’t it? Wow.
Thank you cousin Donna (not to be confused with wifey Donna) and cousin Jack for reaching out when you found this. Made my day.
