The story of how I found my only sister, with whom I did not have any contact for over ten years. This happened in 1992. Instrumental in this story was the Bargain Finder Press, Edmonton, Alberta.

{[ https://www.cylex-canada.ca/company/the-bargain-finder-press-ltd–166 ] The Bargain Finder Press seems to have no real owned website, even today.}  Nowadays it’s probably easier to locate family oceans away, but then just around the time we all had started on the Internet not so long ago, it still seems like a special thing to me.

I had last personal contact with my family in Fall of 1974. Since leaving Europe for good, to start a graduate degree program at Syracuse University, New York State, USA. Traveling with my 7 year old little son. I had not heard from my sister since 1977, when my mother passed away in Germany. So, lost contact. (family-related stuff, of course).

After graduation we ended up in Canada 1976. Got myself a job (first with TELUS/then AGT, Edmonton, Alberta). Following, many years working in Alberta’s oil industry, until the late 1980s, when the Canadian Government program (NEP) pretty much wrecked this industry, leaving many of us loosing their jobs and looking elsewhere for contract work in Ontario. (Myself included, on the road with my old Dodge farm truck.).

During this period of (system contract work), I eventually ended up in Alberta again, and in the summer of 1992 doing some computer development work for Canadian Utilities in Edmonton.  I decided to post a classified ad in the Bargain Finder Press, Edmonton. Trying to find my sister in Germany (Name, last known address).

The ad read: “URGENT, HL (my sister’s name), please contact your sister (my name) in Canada, Tel. #.” One day I received a call from a man in Germany, telling me he saw the ad and knows my sister. And will tell her.  Two days later, sitting at my desk, programming computer stuff, my sister is on the line. From then on, gradually resuming long lost contacts and telephone connections again.

You see how small the world is. However, there are still some dear people I have been trying to locate over the years, unsuccessfully. Even traveling as far as Tunesia.

[BTW. I never actually used the Bargain Finder Press for posting anything after that. SHAME ON ME !]