I am writing to ask for your help in an event that I am volunteering for. I decided to put together a team to participate in a Relay for Life, in which I need to collect donations that would go to the American Cancer Society. I am walking in the memory of my grandfather, who was taken away...
WOW! Thanks a lot for finding all of these different groups to contact. I am going to get together a letter this weekend to write to these individuals. I will plan to mail it out next week. I will keep everyone updated.
I am very good friends with the current owners. I have spoken with them and they have granted me permission to excavate the land where the house sat and I am currently working on a grant to fund this dig. If anyone has grant experience...I would love the help.
Hello all. I am starting to really dive into the material that I have. My goal this month is to list and sort out the players in the story and try to talk to the relatives of the players.
Jennie....I found the suitcase...all it had in it were really old newspaper clippings (I will copy...
I am waiting on my thesis to be accepted, but in the mean time I am moving back to Fayetteville from Boston to spend a month with my family and to research and talk about this with people effective February 3. If anyone is interested in meeting me and helping me look for answers please let me...
Interesting....very interesting. I found that the name Soddu in my research is not a widely used name in Italy. I am very curious about this link now. Where did you find this information? I am curious where Umbaldo was from in Italy.
Of what my grandfather, John, told me....
The children were up later than ususal that night becasue it was Christmas Eve and they were listening to the radio for Santa's arrival. Marion was with them for a short while, but fell asleep on the couch. John and George were already in bed in the...
This is a response to a post that I started on Ancestry.com years ago. I recieved a response to this and tried to e-mail the person who posted this and the e-mail came back as non-deliverable. There is a huge geneology research center in Florence, Itlay that I visited years ago and found a lot...
As of what I understand, yes he just disappeared and was not heard from again. My grandfather also told me of a woman who called and said she had a lead on the story and then she never called again. I am skeptic that this is totally true. My grandfather like I mentioned earlier was scared...
I am curious who was the private detective that my great-grandparents hired to go to the town where the picture was sent from. His "disappearance" is something that my family told me never to go looking for answers.
Now that my grandfather has passed, I do not know how I could find out who...
Hello all,
My grandfather told me that a specialist on age progression looked at the picture and concluded that that was not Louis. I do not remember the name of the specialist...Jennie does Sylvia know?
Nevertheless, I still would like to get a second opinion just for clarification. I...
I will be working on an outline of the story and this outline will be published on Blogspot. Here is the link....
Sodder Family Mystery Blog
I am having my mother look for a suitcase that had letters from people who wrote to my great-grandparents concerning possible sightings of the...
Hello eveyone. Thank you for your attention to this story. It has been a long dream of mine to bring this to the public's attention in my town. I am John's grandson. This topic was very sensitive to him and he did not like to speak about it too often. I however interviewed my grandpa for a...
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