And then the light bulb went on!

Hello!

What an interesting genealogy afternoon! So if you don’t like this subject, step away from this blog. It's about to get personal...

I have found the last registration I was missing from my grandmother’ sister, Esperanza. Well it was interesting because she was registered by someone other than my great-grandmother, but the document states that she was the daughter of my great-grandmother and she didn’t (my great-grandmother) registered her because she didn’t know how to write!!!! I will now change paragraph to explain my theory in which all comes full circle and my mother’s usage of her memory to tell facts gets vindicated…

WTF???  My great-grandmother didn’t know how to write??? She registered 3 kids before Esperanza! She knew how to write!! (Switching to speech recognition. This is too complicated for me to type)…

Where was I?...  Yes!  My great-grandmother didn’t know how to write... As I was saying my great-grandmother registered her other kids, so why not this one?  I’ll tell you why and this is where my mother gets her vindication…She (my great-grandmother) was DEAD!

A while back I had asked my mother when my great-grandmother had passed away, she immediately told me, without hesitation that my great-grandmother passed away in 1907; when my grandmother was only seven years old.  I obviously kept on digging and with time I got a picture of her grave (great-grandmother), with a different date: 1915 to be exact.  My mother and I had our first generation fight!  She told me that my grandmother had never lied to her, I’d told her that memory was easily distorted…  She then confirmed with her cousin that there was an accident with the graves and some of them had erroneous dates…  I wasn’t having any of this; it was obvious to me that she was in the wrong… Not a very nice thing to do, trying to destroy somebody’s memory, shame on me! Now I feel really crappy because my mother’s use of her memory is outstanding and I apologize for ever having doubted her, she’s really accurate when it comes to her history…

Now here’s my theory:

I believed that my great-grandmother passed away while giving birth (or after) to her daughter Esperanza.  It was a lady named Dolores Castro who registered my grand-aunt in 1908 and she uses the excuse that my great-grandmother didn’t know how to write because she was already dead…  Dolores Castro was the aunt of Esperanza's future husband, Manuel Farfan.

Esperanza, Toño, Amparo

It was a very productive afternoon for me, a very productive month!  See you next month…