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Genealogy

Europe, Travel, Travel Tips

Have You Ever Traveled to Meet Overseas Family? Part 2

Whether your family immigrated during colonial times like my wife’s or they immigrated in the 20th century like mine, we are all sons and daughters of people who came from someplace else.  Those of us with more recent ties to a first generation immigrant may feel a stronger pull to know that heritage.  We grew up in households where the culture of our families’ Old Country was as alive as American culture. …

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Latin America, Travel, Travel Tips

Have You Ever Traveled to Meet Overseas Family?

I was nervous as I stepped off the plane in Buenos Aires.  I had no hotel reservation, no taxi waiting to pick me up, no tour guide holding out a welcome sign.  For the next three weeks, I was relying on complete strangers for my food, my lodging, my well-being.  Sure they were family, but other than two I met ten years prior, I only knew this side of my relations through…

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