I shall call this ORS, oral history session. I spent two hours with my cousin Jennifer and Eric in Las Vegas, Nevada. I listen to what they remembered about the family. Jennifer confirmed what I learned about the family. I also learned something new. She said that angkong was actually very rich before the Japanese occupation of the Phillppines in 1941. The war changed his financial status. He became poor.
Above is a picture of their maternal grandfather. Jennifer mentioned how he has many European features. I never met him. Jennifer also does not have the body of a Chinese woman. Her body is more European. She also can dance very well. As I post this information in our Binomdo Heritage Group, someone suggested that it is very possible. Even though their grandfather is from Fujian, China, Quanzhou, Fujian, China was the beginning of the so called Silk Road of the sea where merchants from Quanzhou, Fujian, China would travel west, past Malaysia and India to the Middle East. Their grandfather's ancestor could be from Middle East!
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