When Arleen Gould's cousins in Lithuania were getting ready tocelebrate her aunt's 100th birthday, she told them they had alreadymissed it.
Records the 47-year-old Des Plaines crossing guard uncovered,with the help of a Lithuanian friend she made on the Internet,revealed that her great-aunt Pauline Dalangauskas actually was goingto be 101.
Patrick Bredlau, 42, a bank examiner from Orland Park, found onthe Net that that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at thehome owned by his wife's cousin, Virginia Hooe.Bredlau and Gould are part of a new generation ofcyber-genealogists. They use software to organize their gleaningsfrom the usual sources, such as …
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