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Mailout to contact missing Rellies?

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Wayne the boy from OZ

Wayne the boy from OZ Report 16 Sep 2004 08:42

I have obtained the addresses of 300 Lawrences in the Eastry Kent area. I am planing to mail to 100 of them with the aim of finding decendants of george Lawrence. I cant aford the 300 as that would be over $250 aussie dollars. Has anyone had any success with with a mail out in the past and what percentage of success have you had?? I have had 100 2nd class UK postage stames bought over to me and my son is taking the letters back to post for me. Wayne Lawrence

Kim from Sandhurst

Kim from Sandhurst Report 16 Sep 2004 08:54

Wayne, I did 20 not so long ago, but I put stamped addressed envelopes in as well, and received 7 back, which I thought was a good percentage. What I did do though, was go on 'street-map', so I was not sending them to someone with the same surname in the next road, I spread them out a bit. Kim