This week's theme for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Reunion. I immediately thought about my dad meeting his relatives, on his father's side for the first time.
I'll give you the backstory. Back in early 2016, my sister was messaging back and both with our father's 1st cousin. Our father's 1st cousin didn't know that our grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, one of her uncles, had a son.
My cousin and my father exchanged phone numbers at some point in time and started to talk. I not sure how long how often they talked from Mar. 2016-Oct 2017.
Eventually, they went to each other. My father went to Michigan to just visit his friends, 2 months after was at his mother's funeral. He went to Macomb County, Michigan to see them. From his account, he said he was nervous, and when he walked through the door they said, "You look like Uncle George".
Many people came to see him. The family showed him pictures and gave him a couple of them to keep. The family told him they had an annual family reunion since there are so many descendants of one of my ancestral couples, Gursie Gable and George Pearson.
Before that, my family didn't have family reunions, get-togethers, or gatherings. That didn't very exist for us. The 2020 family reunion is in Detroit, Michigan. So, I guess we're going to it. 😀
I'll give you the backstory. Back in early 2016, my sister was messaging back and both with our father's 1st cousin. Our father's 1st cousin didn't know that our grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, one of her uncles, had a son.
My cousin and my father exchanged phone numbers at some point in time and started to talk. I not sure how long how often they talked from Mar. 2016-Oct 2017.
Eventually, they went to each other. My father went to Michigan to just visit his friends, 2 months after was at his mother's funeral. He went to Macomb County, Michigan to see them. From his account, he said he was nervous, and when he walked through the door they said, "You look like Uncle George".
Many people came to see him. The family showed him pictures and gave him a couple of them to keep. The family told him they had an annual family reunion since there are so many descendants of one of my ancestral couples, Gursie Gable and George Pearson.
Before that, my family didn't have family reunions, get-togethers, or gatherings. That didn't very exist for us. The 2020 family reunion is in Detroit, Michigan. So, I guess we're going to it. 😀
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