Schoenberg Institute

…He had an affair of the heart with one of his distant cousins that he wrote letters to. And then when they found when she never had children and when her kin found those letters, they donated those letters to the Schoenberg Institute, which is also like, what? It's insane.…

…So we scanned all the letters first and it was from his grandfather to his grandmother. Three weeks after the Schoenberg Institute got these letters, they called them and said, we just got another set of letters. And it looks like it's your grandfather. And it looks like he had another family. I mean, what are the odds? What are the odds? Wow. Can you belie…

…gosh, so many. One of my earlier clients was an African-American historian and his family was from the North and they had photos and letters dating back to the 1800s, which is super rare for African-Americans. And so he decided like, you know, let's scan these and I'm just going to donate these letters and some of the photos to the Schoenberg Institute in W…