Finding Living Relatives (National Institute)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Finding_Living_Relatives_%28National_Institute%29Before rushing too deeply into your document search, you should make sure that you have fully exhausted a valuable resource, your living relatives. Facts such as maiden names, exact location of your family’s origin, or other family information could take months or even years to extract from a document search. Family lore can be learned only through the accounts of living relatives.