Denial of hell
May. 13th, 2006 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33It occurred to me this morning, as I was sitting on the couch with my mom, that her teenage grandmother & family all survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in a place where it was actually shook worse than SF: Santa Rosa.
Yes I know, some genealogist I am that this historic connection hadn't dawned on me earlier, but even more startling was my family's story... nothing. My great-grandmother only mentioned seeing large cracks in the ground everywhere.
What?! I grabbed my trusty laptop and showed my mom that Santa Rosa was demolished & all the family that hadn't even been in the United States for a year yet carried forward from the ordeal was cracks?
I am mystified & dying of curiosity. I know there's more than that & if there's a way I'm going to find it.
Yes I know, some genealogist I am that this historic connection hadn't dawned on me earlier, but even more startling was my family's story... nothing. My great-grandmother only mentioned seeing large cracks in the ground everywhere.
What?! I grabbed my trusty laptop and showed my mom that Santa Rosa was demolished & all the family that hadn't even been in the United States for a year yet carried forward from the ordeal was cracks?
I am mystified & dying of curiosity. I know there's more than that & if there's a way I'm going to find it.
