The following exceprt is from a fascinating article posted in the August 12, 2013 edition of gvnews.com:
At 93, there wasn’t much that Green Valley resident Loren Thorson thought he’d yet learn about his past, but an email from a second cousin last Sunday changed all that.
The cousin stumbled onto “an extrordinary posting” while surfing the Internet for family genealogy that included an unsigned letter addressed to the Thorson cousins, discovered in the drawer of an antique dresser purchased by a woman in Seattle named Susan Stoner. Thorson doesn’t know the purchaser, where the dresser is from, nor when she acquired it.
With the letter were six old papers with autobiographical excerpts written by an aunt at least 25 years ago, detailing family history Thorson never knew. A family researcher herself, the dresser’s new owner knew she’d struck genealogy gold but didn’t know where to forward it. She posted images of the papers on a web site in May, presumably not long after acquiring the dresser.
