Generations The Journey of a Family Throughout the Ages.
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Auteur:
Luis T Puig
- Engels
- Paperback
- 9781502890238
- 17 oktober 2014
- 238 pagina's
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This book is a detailed narrative about the journey of a family through the centuries. It begins with the authors DNA test results, plus genealogy records, linking him to his earliest documented paternal ancestors a thousand years ago in 1033 AD. The story of Raphael DiPodio, also know as Raphael DuPui, who was the commander of the Roman Holy Empire Calvary is highlighted. Continued with the story of his descendants, among them Raymond DuPui who was Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, and a veteran of the Crusades. Another branch of the family highlighted is the Pons of Toulouse, narrating the remarkable life and adventures of Raymond Pons VI Count of Toulouse in the early 1200s. His struggles against the Roman Catholic Church are told in graphic fashion. Other lineage explored in this part of the book is the Urgell line, as in the controversial Count of Urgell, a man who should have been King of Spain in 1409, but instead ended up imprisoned in a dungeon. Finally, the book ties in the last two remaining DNA test results with lineages from Germany and Finland.Next, the book explores the authors maternal familys stories. This is a remarkable telling of overcoming obstacles, of dramatic deaths, of lost chances, of struggles against dictatorships, and ultimately of endless and true love. Stories like the Great-Grandfather, a Spanish soldier who upon landing in Cuba as part of the colonial Spanish forces sent to crush a rebellion falls in love with a local Cuban girl. This is followed by the Grandfathers remarkable life, first as a rebel against the Machado dictatorship, and later as a policeman, gunned down and killed in a heroic gun battle against thugs robbing a convenience store. Then the book continues with the struggles of the widow, the authors Grandmother, raising two daughters as a single mother. Next, the two daughter Nancys and Mirtas lives, the later who would become the authors mother; her courtship with the authors father; their love and later tragic separation as the father is captured while spying for the CIA. The story continues with their eventual reunion, and desperate fleeing from a now communist dictatorship nation.The last section of the book is the authors autobiography from birth to the present time. In this section, the other two parts of the book are tied together with the authors life. It starts with his birth, followed by his early childhood as his Maternal Grandmother raises him. Meanwhile the upheaval of his fathers imprisonment, and his mothers struggles to support the family is narrated in detail. The story goes into his battles with asthma, his years as a communist youth (Pionero) in Cuba, while at the same time enduring abuses at his school by others, for the sole reason of being the son of a political prisoner. Then the family exodus from Cuba is recounted, as they make their escape from the island in the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. This is followed by his familys first years in the US, his struggles to learn a new culture and language, his failures at school due to the language barrier, and finally his adventures and triumphant conversion into an American Veteran during his decades of service in the United States Navy Submarine Force. The book includes over 170 pictures, historical documents, DNA tests, family trees, maps, and more.
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