There goes my good name....

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Chisme caliente! (Breaking news)

Last couple of weeks I've been working on my genealogy tree and lately it has begun to bear fruit. Here's the story... I recall a conversation I had with my mother where she told me that my great-grandfather had had an affair and there was a kid born out of this. A couple of years later she denied it... WTF woman?! You cannot tell me something and then retract yourself! You know I have nothing better to do with my time!?! What I'm about to reveal to the family members who read my blog is devastating...I'm about to find out if my grandmother had a sister who was considered to be an illegitimate daughter not of my great-grandfather, but of my great-grandmother! This is a surprise for me, because she had always been painted as a "saint", a woman who had suffered under my great-grandfather's domination. I already have the basic facts on how this person who was told to be my grandmother's aunt was actually my grandmother's oldest sister!!! I have always been told that there was five brothers and sisters that were born from my great-grandmother, two of them had died young, there was only three left and I had met all of them. I also remember going to the house of the lady who was, what I was told back then, the great aunt of my mother... Well this wasn't the case, it was her aunt, her illegitimate aunt! Now I will just get the information from my sources back in my country and I could finally put to rest this investigation... I wish I could say the same for the date of birth of my mother. Yes, yes, yes! I have asked my mother several times when was she born and so far the year of birth of my mother ranges from 1938 to 1943.

The 1938 date is one that has been told to us throughout our life, when we left our country the papers that she took out to get her passport were erroneous, so this wasn't her date of birth. I have also been told 1942 and recently the date 1943 has popped up. This last date cannot be because my mother claimed to have been about a year old when her father past away; her father died in 1942, it says so in his tombstone (I got a pic of it) ! Now the date that I believe she was born is 1939 for the only reason that her cousin (very close cousin) was born in 1937 and my mother claims to be two years younger than her. It doesn't matter when she was born, I still love her very much but I wish she would be upfront with me knowing that I really like to have precise dates when it comes to genealogy... I feel like what my oldest brother like to think of himself when it comes to being a lawyer, he likes to think that he's pulling the thread of nice shirt until he makes a whole on it, well I like to think that I poking holes by pulling a tread on my family shirt...


Take care folks!

PS I will not tell this findings to her, I love her too much to brake her heart....