Genealogy: Finding Relatives in other countries,

Some years ago I found out that my grandfatherrelative, this lady was the spouse of one cousin
came from Croatia, former Yugoslavia. I knewthat I never met, or heard of. My letter arrived in
that some of his relatives lived there, but noa mysterious way to this lady, because there are
address, no phone, and no e-mail, just informationno direct descendants from my grandfather in
that Komiza was the place where he was bornCroatia. It was the neighbor that received the
and lived when he was a young boy. The mainletter, he has my Last name but he had no
problem was the language, since I don't speakrelation to me. My cousin's wife answered my
Croatian I began to look for help on the internet,letter, the answer came back in Croatian but my
and finally I found a forum with some great ideasfriend from Sarajev kindly translated for me. It
to find my relatives. I left a note in this forumwas great, I also had found people ready to help
asking for help, expecting for someone to answer.in my research. After some information exchange
Also, I left some information about my last nameI found that the only descendants with my last
and information about my grandfather like date ofname live in South America and not in
birth and his parents' names. In a couple of hoursKomiza-Croatia. I found other last names to be
I received an answer from someone living inadded to my genealogy, I sent and received
Sarajev written in formal English, this person gavemore letters, cards, photographs and also more
me a list of people that lived in this tiny island ininformation to build the family tree. After this
Croatia with my last name. Next morning I beganexperience I decide to create a website with this
to write to all those addresses with the samepurpose.
message, and finally I received a letter from a