In a message dated 4/2/2009 6:20:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jwlayt...@msn.com writes: > Thank you so much, but I know nothing else. You're very kind. That is the > information I had hoped to get when I went there. > > I once met a man named Antonio Pimentel working in Washington DC. His > family also came from Bretanha and had settled in California. We couldn't > establish a connection, but then I don't think either one of us knew anything > else > about our families. > > How I wish that my mother's generation were alive so I could ask these > questions! I do remember that she said Antonio's mother went to America with > his > 2 brothers and left him behind. Sometime later he stowed away (so the story > goes) on a ship and came here. But he didn't know where his family might > be. Four or five years later he went to a fiesta in New Bedford and ran into > his brothers! > > All I have is a photograph of my grandfather's home in Bretanha. My mother > had taken the picture when she went to visit in the 1960's. The house was > abandoned. > > I need to go back there and spend more time. I also need to talk to all my > cousins to see if they remember anything. > > Thanks so much for your offer. > > You are very welcome!
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