Found Cousin

So I don't think I ever mentioned this on the blog before. Back in September last year I was playing on Ancestry.com, looking for some information on Michael's family trying to come up with something for his Grandmother for Christmas. I had found tons of information and one Sunday night, I decided to see what information was on there about my family. I typed in some names that I knew off the top of my head and saw some stuff, which just kept me going looking for more. I typed in my Great Grandmothers name on my Dad's side Flossie Garlick, well I found a bunch of lines, but most of them that would be connected to me had the wrong Flossie. People had a Flossie Garlick that had died in the 1950's and I knew she had died in the 30's, well....I was clicking on names and seeing what other people had and my great Uncle Arden's name popped up with a daughter attached to him. In all of my 41 years (I was 41 at the time) I had never heard that he had had a daughter, and my first thought was wow this is totally messed up someone has gotten information way wrong. Well the more I looked at it, I realized the mother listed was his first wife, so even though it was after 11 PM I picked up the phone and called Mom and Dad wanting to know what the heck...who is this person I had never heard of. Dad confirmed that he did have a cousin Judy and that nobody had known what happened to her after the divorce and after Uncle Arden died nobody had had any contact with her. I hung up the phone and realized that Judy had had a daughter Tobey, and she was the one that had put the information on Ancestry.com. The was a email address for her so I immediately emailed her saying I think your Grandfather and my Grandfather were brothers and so that makes us cousins!!! Tobey emailed me the next morning and we confirmed everything and we are definitely cousins. We've exchanged pictures, emails, phone calls and the reason for this post is that we were finally able to meet. We hooked up in Pasadena for a long chat and a quick bite of food. Mom and Dad were able to come and spend some time with her and tell her some family stories. Here are a couple of pictures of my new found cousin and me and one with Mom and Dad in it as well. She definitely has some Garlick genes in her!!! Love ya Tobey (I know she's reads my blog!!!)

I didn't get a picture of her husband Mark, he was way cool too. He even has Bell relations from the south, so who knows Michael maybe related to him somewhere down the family tree line. Small World!!!