I'm definitely doing that right now. Although I have family on my FB, none of them ever reach out to me to get together in person and they never message me either.

The one thing I want though, is my dad's life history in old family photo albums that my wicked aunt hoards from myself, my siblings, and our mom. She's wicked because she also has my dad's old baseball cards that she refuses to return to us (as she refused to return to my dad, when he was alive -- even his own brother refused to give my dad back his baseball cards). My aunt's siblings all hate her too, ironically enough, b/c she hoards things of theirs, and won't return their familial items to them (jewelry, photo albums, dishes, towels, etc.).

I have a few photos of my dad but it makes me feel irate to think about how my horrible aunt holds on to photo albums that don't even belong to her.

My cousin is writing a family memoir and won't even include my siblings and I in the genealogy research. I just come from a family of jerks (PG-13 adjective but use your imagination).

At least I'm doing that now. I'm walking away from my own flesh and blood who have shunned me my whole life. Weird. I'm not the only adult to have to do this either. The transition has just been weird.