Recently I have been finding a lot of distant family members on Facebook. Well, I received a warning from Facebook about sending friend requests. I thought that was what Facebook was all about. Apparently, in my quest to connect with family members I have never met, someone may have either not answered in a very long time, or possibly reported me.
This was a bit disheartening and disappointing. First of all, it shows that not everyone lives on Facebook and sees your friend requests right away. I hope this is the reason I was warned for "contacting people I didn't know". The other reason is the one that is disheartening. What if one of those distant relatives (who mostly have the same last name as me) reported me for harassing them without even communicating to me? I tried not to worry too much about that. I know that in today's society, people are very leery of strangers and especially people who are asking them very personal information.
I hope that as I contact relatives and they see that I am working diligently on the Family Tree, they will let their siblings or children know what is going on and who I am. If nothing else, if you are one of those people, please have them get in touch with me so we can build that tree.
