Hi---
I started by having memories of them, because a long time ago I had asked to meet in this life someone I'd met in a past life. So in meditation these little scenes would come up of that person with others and me. Sometimes the meditation would be on a specific question I'd asked, sometimes it would be given to me just to fill in or make sense of something else. So I don't usually ask about a specific person, other than that first one.
I'm thinking that we all make connections with the spirit plane based on our own memories, loves, etc. I mean I think there are many ways of contacting spirit.
(Sam and 'Edgar' could be relatives from this life.) Do you think the name you heard as Edgar could maybe have been Evritt? (Everett?)
Are you doing this to work on developing your spiritual contacts?
Thank you, Bets