Which Reminds Me

While reading the diaries of great-grandmother, we learn of the existence of the Bellows family, who are her cousins to some degree. Even so, I have never met these people and don't know when I would ever get there to meet them. I only know they exist now because of reading the diaries. I never heard of any hot air blowing from Randy Bellows or Josiah Bellows, that I would ever think to look for them. Of course, now that we have done our genealogy research we see that Josiah Bellows married Ellen Smith, daughter of Edmund, the uncle of my great-grandmother, and Edmund Randall 'Randy' Bellows was one of their children whom great-grandmother contacted once when she was visiting her relatives back east maybe in the 1960s, so probably those people are dead by now I would imagine. But we would only know that from reading the diaries and doing our genealogy research, not because we would have any firsthand knowledge of them any other way.