Using Social Media

For a while I had been toying with the idea of approaching people via facebook. As I have explained earlier, my maternal grandmother had a rather unusual maiden name, and a search on that name in facebook showed quite a few people, some where even from the same area, Tumut. 


Choosing which ones to try and send a message too was hard. This was a fairly direct, in your face approach.. I had to think carefully what I said and to whom. I didn't want to cause any dramas but I wanted information..I wanted to know if I was actually related to any of these people.


December 2011 - After discussing with my social worker at the adoption agency what I was wanting to do next, she agreed to send Judith a letter on my behalf explaining that I was going to continue my search for other family members, as well as offering to be a mediator in this and I guess indirectly giving her the opportunity to come forward herself with family members before I might do it. 

One of my favourite pics of me and my mum! <3 (My love for the colour purple started young )

My case had also been forwarded on to the Salvation Army Special Search people to help find my birthfather. They had come up with a few POSSIBLE matches. It was hard because there was only minimal information available about the father, and it was hard to narrow down the search specifically. A few letters were sent out to some of these, but all come back negative to being our person of interest.  I was also asked to write a letter to my birth father, but send it to my caseworker, so when or if the time came that they got a positive match they could forward my letter on to him.



January 2012 - I finally made the step of contacting a few people via facebook. I sent them a short inbox, just saying I was doing some family history...then I had to sit back and wait! 


Again, more waiting!