Family tree

Hello!



So I've been working on my family tree for a while now and I found some stories that I'm pretty sure all of you have in your families but you don't remember your mother telling you about or you never know they existed.

I found out that my great great grandfather on my grandfather's side had an affair with a market lady that gave birth to a cousin of mine who lives in Montréal and I often see her. I told her about her background and she was real happy about what I have told her and confirmed the names in the story.

I also found out on my wife's side that her great grandparents were over 2 m tall. Reason for my wife and one of my kids being quite tall. Apparently there's a picture there somewhere that shows them standing besides a fence and other people and they surpass everybody in height.

I also found out that my great grandfather had a stepbrother the gave birth to a lady who had a son that started the death squad in my country. He was a general feared by everybody, apparently he was in the CIA payroll. People that come from my country and know a bit of its history will surely remember the name José Alberto Medrano, Chele Medrano. You can even look it up on Google and you will find many documents about him. Not exactly proud about it but hey, he's family. I remember I met him when I was a little boy but to me he was only an Army person, no more no less. It is until recently that I discovered his dark side and the fame he had in my country.

I am trying to get in contact with other people, other members of my family who can provide me with more information about my family's past. So far I've gotten pictures of my great-grandparents and I hope I can get a picture of my great great grandmother and dates of people that were my ancestors.

So far I haven't found anybody that had MS like I do. It's funny because the further you get from the equator line the more chances you have of getting MS. The weird thing about it is that I come from El Salvador a stone throw away from the equator. Even the doctors were surprised when they diagnosed me with MS, they asked me where I was from. When I told them where I was from they immediately told me that it was strange that a person from that region would have MS.


I know the rumors that have been running in my family and other relatives put my mother's family origins somewhere in Spain. I have not been able to confirm or deny this, apparently I have a cousin that has a family tree so complex it pushes my grandmother's family all the wy to the Queen's court where one of my ancestors played the organ for her. I haven't been able to get in contact with this cousin. She doesn't believe in Facebook or any other social sites. Hopefully I will find her before she gets to be at tad too old.



I wonder what else I will find?