Aug 11 - Follow-up your favorite message boards

Aug 11 – Go back to your favorite message boards and look for new postings.

Take this even a step forward, do a google search and see if you can find postings inquiring about your family. I came across a post on USGenWeb project from 1999 about one of my family branches.  The post was quite old, from 1999 but I still sent out an email and it didn’t come back undeliverable. Now I am crossing my fingers that I am going to get a reply.