The facts of your brother's suicide match up with those of one in my extended family.

Do your brother's initials also serve as the abbreviation for a fairly common government-issued credential? Born in Boise, high-school in Orem?

If so, we probably camped out together in one of the "cousins tents" at family reunions in the 1970's.

If you are who I think you are and you recall the big, red, family-history book that was published in 1980, I can be identified as 247.

I would be a bit more than a year younger than you, and three years older than your brother.

I missed this post till "Kathleen" directed my attention to it. You have all the details right, so we must be related.

I don't have the book, as I live in another country, and learned to travel light. But I'm super curious who you are. I choose the name DNA because the Indian's not being who I was taught that they were was my big breaking point. But it is also a scramble of my first name.

I've got a temporary email of lexussc1@live.com I'd like to know which relative you are.

Email sent.

In case this gets buried off the main page before SoCal sees it. Will you guys direct his attention back to it please.

Thanks much.