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About this History

This is the history of my Family. Most of it is built from family stories, collaborated by physical evidence and official records where possible. I am not perfect, and the history is full of suppositions, and guesswork.
If you have any information that I am missing, or can correct something that I have wrong, or can put me in touch with someone else who can help, please do not hesitated to contact me. My email address is [email protected].
I am actively seeking your input!

This document is organized by generation, with my grandparents and parents decendants seperated out. First there is a brief history of who we are and where we came from, and a family tree. Then pages for each generation, a page for people that we know are relatives, but not how we are related, an alphabetical index, and a guest book at the rear so others can see you've been here. If you have a frame capable browser, there is a navigation frame at the bottom, otherwise; At the bottom of each page is a list of links to all other pages. Each person is listed with a number following the name; that number was assigned by the software that I use to keep track of everything, and is only used to distinguish between different persons, and has no meaning whatsoever beyond that.

This family history started when I was in elementary school. My whole class was asked to create a family tree by my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Cornelious, who was researching her Hawaiian heritage.
Shortly after I completed the project, My grandmother, Rafaella Soma, had just died, and my Aunt Gloria and Uncle Joe were in California. Aunt Glo admired the hard work of the then industrious 10 year old that I was.
15 years later, Aunt Glo was arranging a family reunion in Florida, and called me to see if I still had it. Alas, my 4th grade social studies project had disappeared from existence, but I did find a draft version of it whilst digging through my mother's credenza.
Aunt Glo's request sparked an interest for Genealogy in me, and I went on a quest; contacting relatives that I had never met, some of which never even knew I existed! and eventually produced a 9 page booklet and a tree chart that spans 4 sheets of paper.
When I returned from living overseas, I had lost my computer records, and put aside my work. It wasn't until the Summer of 1996 when Aunt Glo and Uncle Joe came to visit again (under happier circumstances this time) that I revived my research, and the advent of the World Wide Web made it much easier to share with everyone.