ELEVEN ~ "More" Maternal COUSINS ~ Yippeee

MOM (Lenora Anne Jennings VERI ) ab 1970 Chicago

The "Jennings Cousins" are Everywhere

This week MORE Jenning Cousins have been found. I was lucky enough to speak to 2 of them, and it has been a Thrill, but a bit of a let down....NO ONE has seen or heard from my mom since about 1972. The search is still on, but my head is tired from banging against a brick wall. BUT the cousins have shared new info about the family and fired up my interest again. My searches so far have found ALL my mom's siblings, neices and nephews...where are you mom?

ANCESTRY.ca gives a new lead

It was late at nite and I was tired of typing "SEARCH" without having any new information. Decided to look at various public Family Trees  for one of my mom's brothers. I found a Tree which had Vernard Jennings, so I wrote them a letter explaining Vernard was possibly an uncle. How exciting to find a reply the next day! Ends up the young lady who answered was the daughter of my First cousin!! She asked questions and called her aunts for the answers, then was sweet enough to provide emails to a few other First cousins...and next came a few phone calls. Most of the calls lasted an hour, one almost 90 minutes. It's amazing to have SO much to talk about when you do NOT know each other.  My cousins haven't heard from my mom since about 1970-71 but they shared a few stories of their "Aunt Lee" It was a surreal feeling, Hearing about a mother who I haven;t seen since 1965.

A Treasured but lousy picture of Mom

One of my cousins sent me the last picture she had of my mother. I did Not recognise the woman with Black eyes and eye brows with gawd aweful hair. My mom Lenora was always well dressed, coiffed hair and acting like a proper gentile lady (much like my sister Tina) When I asked the cousin what the heck happened to my mom, because she was Never like this in my life....well cousin chuckled and explained it all. Seems in the 70's the big thing there was wearing a wig to go out and party. Cousin said she had a picture of her own mother, with an equally Terrible wig. I sighed and decided to post the picture here on my Blog, since it is my Newest treasure.