Family Tree Website

Welcome to my family tree website! This site is a place where we can explore and celebrate our family history together. Here, you’ll find stories, photos, and information about our ancestors, helping us connect with our roots and learn more about where we come from. Let’s take this journey through our shared past and keep our family’s legacy alive for future generations.

The Chosen

This site is dedicated to exploring and preserving the rich history of my family, which began when my European ancestors sought a better life and set sail for Chile, South America, in the late 1800s. I am proud to be a descendant of English, German, Croatian, Spanish, and Italian heritage. From the coalfields of Durham to the farmlands of Croatia, they all converged in the land of Chile. Through this website, I will trace our roots, share stories, and honour the diverse cultures that have shaped our family's journey. Join me in celebrating our unique heritage and the incredible legacy our ancestors have left behind.

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The Bones of My Bones

The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. "It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.

Spotlight on Ancestors

Ida Kramer

My 3rd great-grandmother's journey to Chile from Hamburg, Germany in 1888, undertaken all by herself, paints a vivid picture of remarkable courage and determination. At a time when long sea voyages were fraught with uncertainty and danger, especially for a woman traveling alone, her decision to set sail speaks volumes about her resilience and pioneering spirit. Whether she was seeking new opportunities, reuniting with loved ones, or escaping challenges in her homeland, her solo voyage across the seas marks her as an extraordinary figure in my family's history.

Camilla

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Enjoy the Humor!
  • Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
    ~ Mark Twain
  • Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
    ~ Howard K. Nixon
  • We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
    ~ Jimmy Carter
  • Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
    ~ Florence King
  • My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
    ~ Ellen

My Families

Smith / Bewick

These families hail from the northern part of England, specifically Northumberland and Durham.

Yurich / Mohorich

These families hail from Primorje Gorski Kotar county in Croatia

Serrano / Rodriguez

These families hail from Spain and are mixed with the indigenous people from Chile.

Costagliola / Carrotti

These families hail from the region of Napoli in Italy.

Valenzuela / Silva

These families hail from Spain.



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We strive to document all of our sources in this family tree. If you have something to add, please let us know. You can contact me at valeriaatje@gmail.com