A Ghost No More
I know it's been a really long time since I've written....genealogy unfortunately tends to take a backseat to my business, and other work, and family....but I had to share this revelation! Uncle Alan Heigert was the one who told me my ggrandmother Angelina's forst husbands name was Valentino Paganin. For whatever reason I identify closest with my Italian heritage, and he was a complete mystery. My ghost. All I, or anyone, really knew was that Angelina's first husband, Rena's father, died when Rena was very young, and the family for whatever reason would not help support them, and they emigrated to the US, she married Giuseppe "Joe" Barra, had a passel more kids, and here we all are. But you know I couldn't be happy with just that. No, I HAVE TO KNOW MORE. I've been hunting Valentino for years. Unsuccessfully, I might add. I have another blog post about that. But this time, we found him. Thanks to cousin Mary, (My Nona's twin sister ...