Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Digging facts in Ahuachapan

Hello!

I’d don’t care if this speech recognition application sucks but I have to use it because this post is definitely juicy!

You know how I stated that I had gotten some juicy genealogy news in my PS at the end of my last post?!  Well I did!  And I share some of the news with my mother who wasn’t really pleased with the whole thing, so I told her half-truths because if I was to tell her that some of the dates that I got from my country were completely off by days, months, freaking years!  The people in El Salvador gave me enough information for me to snoop some more.

I finally got my mother’s birthday right and my grandmother’s birthday.  They were not off by much: my mother was off by one day and my grandmother was off by six months.  My grandmother was born in 1899 not in the month of December like we were told all of these years but in the month of July!  She was born on the 25th of July to be exact, a whole six months away from the date we were given: 18 of December!  I even know the name of her godmother and, to no surprise in my part, she was a “natural” daughter; meaning her dad didn’t recognize her as iegitimate daughter.  Nonetheless she took her father’s name and I don’t know why.  As for my mother, all the dates she has given me in the past can now be ignore as I know the exact date when she was born and who her godparents were…

There’s more about that family, exact names, godparents, christening dates, marriage dates and proper dates of when they were born.  I have put them on my genealogy tree but I will not burden you with those facts as they are irrelevant to my life…

Take care folks!

PS  To my immediate family, please know that I haven’t told my mother all the truth about this so I would be careful when talking to her…

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