Dear Sir: I know that you posted your message several years ago, however I am hoping that you are still there. My mother, who is now 82, has asked me to search for ancestry of her father, Tadajiro Maye. He was born in Hiroshima, Japan Oct. 15, 1899. His father (and family) lived at 231 Odamura Takatagun, Hiroshima. My grandfather was one of the many Japanese to be sent to Tashmi camp in BC, my mother said he died of a broken heart. I have pictures of him, a suitcase he brought from Japan of woven wicker, and the postcards he sent from Hiroshima & Nagasaki on a visit to family over there in the early 1900s. We feel that we have possibly no relatives that survived the great destruction of WW2, but anything at all would be nice to know of my Great Grand Father and his family. I never knew him and my mother misses him greatly. Our most heartfelt thanks and deepest respect, we remain,
Akiko Maye Ryder
and daughter Christine