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I answer the question of how I got to be a French Creole Hakka Chinese Trinidadian.

I had known the question since I was about 10 years old, but I had not bothered with the answer until the Spring of 2001, when my mother gave me my paternal grandmother’s leather-bound bible dating to the early 1910s.

I had possession of the bits and pieces of the answer on my bookshelf, and with the innovations of Internet DotCom and SlashNet, in the archives of http://www.google.com .

Here are some excerpts of books written by relatives …

"China Called Me"

"Footnote to History"

"Inside the Cultural Revolution"

Here are some of the many, but still too few, old photos that had been left in some forgotten drawer …

Great Grandfather (on paternal grandmother's side)

Grandmother

Step-Grandmother

Grandfather

Father, uncle and aunts

Brothers

And then there were some long forgotten folded pieces of paper stored at nowhere in particular, rediscovered along the way ...

Birth certificate of my father with a cousin Stella Rooks as witness; and

Details on my grandmother's antecedents shrouded in secrets of family and of states.

Doing a google search result in locating some members of the lost Sancho clans and the missing Bishop tribes, e-mails and telephones netted the rest.

Having not left my desk, I established a link between this Ganteaume with that Acham-Chen, and this Battle of the Nile with that Rebellion of the Taiping, but far more importantly, I found many of my family relations within 6 months time, after my immediate branch of the family had gone missing from the greater groupings, separating for 80 years and thousands of miles.

Here are my reunions with those I had found …

Reunion Photos 

Here are some descriptions of my journeys …

Trinidad

Russia

I thank Google for what they made easy.

Oh, and yes, on a related matter, I am not sure of the conclusion, but here are some data points for the nature vs. nurture debate:

My Russian brother 

My Russian niece 

My grandmother's cousin's great-great grand son 

Could be just coincidences, I am sure.