A Grandmother's Gift

It doesn’t matter where you live. There are constants in a search for genealogical facts and details that transcend geography. For instance, we know that family gifts can spur an interest in family history. This week’s guest is proof positive of that. As a teenager his grandmother sent him a box of images and those pictures gave him the gift of discovering his family’s past.Good record keeping in his home country took him part of the way on that journey. The pictures proved that for decades the relatives in Chile kept in touch with their relatives in Europe and then the communication stopped. A DNA test brought them back together. You may have read his story in the MyHeritage blog, but in this episode Gonzalo Luengo shares how it all happened.  Links:Story in the MyHeritage blogBlog http://genesdefamilia.blogspot.com/YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTbHE4IeNglrfsiRnpwqczwSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest: Gonzalo Luengo is a Chilean teacher and professional genealogist. Member of the Chilean Institute of Genealogical Research and the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research of Ñuble. A volunteer consultant at the Chilean Stake Family History Center since 2008, Gonzalo is the author of Genes de familia (http://genesdefamilia.blogspot.com) a blog dedicated to sharing tutorials archives and resources for Chilean genealogy. His YouTube videos also include interviews with genealogists and family history enthusiasts. He has participated in many genealogical events, including the American Genealogy Meeting in 2015. He wrote a book, 'La familia Hojas de Burgos', analyzing migration and genealogy from Europe to America during the 19th Century. He is currently a teacher in Bulnes, Chile teaching English from kindergarten to eight grade in the rural schools of the area. About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper I'm thrilled to be offering something new. Photo investigations. These collaborative one-on-one sessions. Look at your family photos then you and I meet to discuss your mystery images. And find out how each clue and hint might contribute to your family history. Find out more by going to maureentaylor.com and clicking on family photo investigations. Support the show