Just had a somewhat similar experience. I contacted a researcher who
was searching the same name, and amazingly, it turned out he was related
on the side which married into my family. Since I was searching for
offspring of my grandfather's sister and her husband, and he was related
to the husband, I thought, for sure, he would be excited, especially
since I told him I knew for a fact one child was alive after the War,
and I suspected others might have survived as well, and I was trying to
find them and/or their families. After two emails to me, he upped and
disappeared, never answering any of my follow-up emails. He was so
convinced that the whole family had perished in Europe, you would have
thought he would have jumped at the chance of working with me. I had
information he did not have and vice versa. I was devastated, since he
held the key for me on this family, because he was in possession of a
lot of records >from the town. I held the key to the possible survivors.
I did take a chance, on the urging of some of the great people on this
discussion group, to email him once more, asking why he had not
responded, and suggesting that even if he did not want to hear >from me
again, to at least just say so, to tell me not to bug him anymore. Not
a word in response. I will never understand people, as I guess you
don't, either. Leslie Weinberg

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