3 Reasons Why People Don't Respond to Your Messages & How to Find Living Family

3 Reasons Why People Don’t Respond to Your Messages & How to Find Living Family

Here are three reasons why people don’t respond to your genealogical questions or messages and how you can find those living family members. 

Ride along with me to talk about reaching out to new relatives or cousins you’ve never met and how to reach out properly.

In this episode we talk about sending that first email or message to the newly found relative. In some cases it might be a new DNA cousin match.

Also covered in this video is notifications setting in profiles. unattended accounts and why you might not be getting responses on those messages you’ve sent.

Lastly, I’m giving you options and resources of how to find living relatives through other records available online as well as some free online resources.

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