Tecson

I'm going through my junk mail folder in my email to see if there is anything I should keep before emptying out the whole folder. I come across and email by someone I don't really know, but it grabs my attention because the name is Tecson. I opened it and it is addressed to several people with the name Tecson. Firs thought was, "oh great, one of those spam emails that sends it out to everyone who has a smiliar email, in this case, Tecson. But I read on and as it turns out, it's an article by someone who has done, is continuing to do research on many including the Tecsons. Well the article is very long (http://baleria.com/?page_id=69) but from what I gathered is pretty damn awesome. I've always wondered where my roots come from. I know a little from my mom's side but never really knew much on my dad's side. I got bits and details from him, but even he wasn't so sure about the details. He always said there was one man left in the PI that really knew a lot.

Well in this article, that man is mentioned. In the article he's 94 (2005) so he may be 96 by now, God willing. I was so amazed that he had boxes of documents... DOCUMENTS! HELLO! Most people in the PI don't have documents about hteir ancestors. A lot of stuff was burned by the Japanese and well, we don't know much about our ancestors.

I found it odd that this man that research was done on was also a Mason, as was my dad.

Lately I have been into heritage, genealogy and ancestor-hood (if that is a word). Not too sure why, but I'd really like there to be some sort of history for my children and their children and so forth. It's not like here where John Smith has centuries of documents and historical stories, etc. You don't hear of many filipinos having those type of stories to tell or even really know.

Anyway, that's all. Rained A LOT today. Just wondering when it's doing to get cold! I'm looking forward to wearing long sleeves already!