Re: Just saying hello, I'm new to this...
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Just saying hello, I'm new to this...
10/16/01
HiNumkene,
I am Wendy Caldwell and a third cousin of your dad's.I got to meet your dad this past summer when my husband Stan and I did a driving vacation through Montana.We stopped in Polson for a few hours and met him for lunch and then drove out to one of the parks on Flathead Lake where we talked and I showed him family picture albums.I actually had been in contact with him for more than a year as we connected via the internet and he has given me a wealth of genealogy information about the family.To make the family connection clear your gggrandfather Henry Haake Felsman and my ggrandfather Herman Haake were brothers.
We got to meet more family as we then continued on to Kalispell and met Bette Felsman Larson who is a first cousin of my birth mother Patricia Felsman Fine.About 16 years ago I did a search for my birth family and found my immediate Fine family who are in Missoula and Butte.It's a long story.Anyway, about 2 years ago we went on-line and I started doing more research to see who else I could add to my birth family tree.Patricia's father was Herman Felsman who just passed away in September, and of course his father was Herman Haake Felsman.So, that's how I fit into the Felsman side.My birth name is Sharon Kathleen Felsman Fine, but my adoptive name is Wendy Esther Laws (maiden) Caldwell.So, that's how I fit into this clan.