Ask HN: How do I reach out to my multi-billionaire cousin?
I have got into doing my family ancestry (addicting!) and I am looking for photos of my 2nd great-grandfather&#x2F;2nd great-grandmother who immigrated to the USA from Scotland.  My side of the family due to some early deaths lost any photos and family mementos.<p>There is only one person who might have photos (my 1st cousin 2x removed) who is the son of my great-grandmother&#x27;s twin brother... certainly he would have photos. I looked him up to get his address and to find if he has any social media.  Figured this would be pretty simple but my Google search found that he is a muliti-billionaire  who lives in a house about the size of a city block, is on the board of Berkshire-Hathaway and is childhood friend to Warren Buffett.  Myself in contrast I ate at Jack in the Box today, live in a condo is a small city in California that no one has heard of... and I drive a nice... but lovingly pre-owned car.<p>I have thought of the following ways to make contact but I am not really in-love with any of these ideas<p>1. I send a letter with some of the geneology and request for the photos.  Unknown if someone will look at it because he most-probably gets a lot of letters from crazy people and may have given up on anyone opening any of them.<p>2. He has a son, who does have Facebook but doesn&#x27;t seem to really use Facebook much.  I could send his son a Facebook message request but his son is a multi-millionaire who has a multi-billionaire father.  I don&#x27;t know maybe a 2% chance of that working.<p>3.  I looked up if he has a personal foundation, I figured I would write his foundation but his foundation address goes to a lawyer&#x27;s office.  Now I have to hire a lawyer to write his lawyer and probably a genealogist to prove the genealogy. (the genealogy is pretty simple from Ancestry.com there is no question to it)<p>I can&#x27;t think of any other ways that might be effective and cheap.  What do you think?