roots are deep, wiggle deeper down and shake the dirt and one may still end up with dirt deeper down, learning about geneology records is so very interesting and yes, thoughts and unanswered questions arise, unable to ask ancestors that have passed, how was it like to be the fourth ‘wife’ of eight Doñas to a priest in the early 1900’s? but i cannot help and wonder, lola, were you assaulted?

FAMILY TRIVIA: Exactly 197 years ago, today, 10 August 2012, Padre Lorenzo Eduardo Teofilo Sauza y Berenguer de Marquina, the 5th son of Don Santiago Sauza (1777-1880) and of Doña Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong (1790-1900) was born in Marinduque, The Philippines. He died on 31 March 1912 at San Jose, Antique, The Philippines. His was exhumed on 12 December 1939 and was reburied at the family crypt at San Francisco Parish (presently Mapua Institute of Technology), Intramuros, Manila, The Philippines. He was the most handsome among his siblings, the most brilliant one, the only left handed child, one of the great swimmers among his siblings (That’s why his bloodline is defined as color orange, the color of wisdom and life buoy) and the one who first researched the family tree of the Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina in 1850.