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Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you have all been enjoying the holidays!Very soon it will be business as usual for all of us!
There are so many rewards for doing our family history! One of them is collaborating with others. 8 years ago I met a wonderful man who wrote and asked me about someone on our Italian line. He was trying to find his great grandfather in a little village in the province of Genova, Italy called Tasso. As we collaborated together over the next several years we became good friends and also established that he and my husband are, indeed, cousins descending from several common ancestors. Often times the collaboration stops there but not in this case.
There are so many rewards for doing our family history! One of them is collaborating with others. 8 years ago I met a wonderful man who wrote and asked me about someone on our Italian line. He was trying to find his great grandfather in a little village in the province of Genova, Italy called Tasso. As we collaborated together over the next several years we became good friends and also established that he and my husband are, indeed, cousins descending from several common ancestors. Often times the collaboration stops there but not in this case.
We have worked together on his Italian database of over 8000 names and made connections with some living cousins as a result of mostly Stephen's unending efforts. As a result this week we gathered together as cousins from three states.
My mother-in-law, Gloria, is now 91 years old. She has felt for a long time that she is the only Ferrera left since everyone she is related to with that surname is now dead. Much to her delight this week she met Stephen for a second time and his brother Andy for the first time and a relative and his wife and son from Pennsylvania. Richard from PA turned out to be Gloria's second cousin, they share Great Grandparents!
Andy, Jim, Gloria, Bonnie, Richard, Anne, Stephen & Mark
8 cousins!
The kind of joy this brought to my husband, Jim, and his mother and to Richard from PA and our two cousins from Utah was unbelievable. It is one thing to find records and sources citations for ancestors and relatives but to actually meet them is the ultimate. You know the old saying that "Blood is thicker than water". It is definitely true. Richard bought his wife and son and the joy for all of us was amazing.
So sometimes when we get involved in our genealogy we get way more than we bargained for in the way of blessings.
