If you need help to find someone you've missed let me know, because I'm really good to find disappeared people! I know it seems bold to say, but it's true!
Okay, here's the thing. As I wrote on my profile I have some relatives in USA. My mother's aunt went there after the war, she got married and had seven kids :shock: One of them (let's call him MrX ;) ) moved in Colorado many years ago and the family lost him. Yes, we lost him. Not even a call, a letter, nothing, for almost fifteen years now. Let's say that he had a big fight with his near family and he decided to interrupt all kinds of contacts with them. I've seen him just once in my life, the first time I went to USA, when I was five years old, and actually I don't remember him. I have just few images in my mind about him, but that's all. Moreover I didn't know a single word of English at that time, so I didn't even talk to him.
Why am I telling all this? Well, something happened! About three weeks ago I was on Twitter (follow me I'm Cenina of course ;) ) and I had nothing to do. So I put names and names in the search, just to have fun you know, and I also put my american family surname. Guess what??? A man with the same name of MrX had an account on Twitter. I've followed him right away. He didn't follow me back, but I didn't give up! Giammai!!! 8) At that point I was too curious to give up. I mean, I had probably found a missing relative, and this is not something that happens every day. I then followed all the people that had his same location written, so maybe I could have asked: "Hey do you know MrX? He's my missing relative!". So I've waited and waited, but he didn't follow me, and the people I've asked to about didn't know him. But I was really excited and curious, and I looked for another solution :P
I googled him. And I found him of course. Well, sort of. He had an account on this websites for finding jobs and show curricula (by the way, I've never thought that five long and stressful years of latin would have leaded to this: I can use the plural of latin words!! It's actually a useful dead language. Ok, you may understand that latin was a hated subject for me). Back to my MrX: there was his curriculum on this website and I could say for sure that he was the MrX I was looking for. I signed up in this website (with fake name and address of course, I'm not looking for a job in the US and I don't need jobs offers in my mail all the time). So once I got into the site I was able to send him an e-mail via the website: I didn't know his e-mail because of the site privacy laws, but he got my message anyway. And he got it!!! And he was MrX!!! He then contacted me on Twitter (I was right from the beginning yep) and I have his e-mail address now. I've written to him, but he didn't answer yet. If he didn't wanted to talk to his family, and he actually didn't for fifteen years, I don't think that he will change his mind just because his little cousin found him. Yes, I've found a missing relative. He was not so missing after all, because all this took me three weeks, very little time, but still, I did a good job :D
You could say: if you found him so easily why his near family didn't contact him before? And you're even right, but the answer is: I have no idea. They fought, that's all I know, and I don't want to know more. I don't care why they did it, it's not my businness and I think that even the worst thing could not separate like this family members. But it happened. I was curious and I found him, I guess that they could have done the same if they were interested. Well, I'm interested. I hope in his answer. I'm really closed to my american family, and I would like to know him if I have the chance. Fingers crossed! ;)