Saturday, November 30, 2019

Where do you come from

I did some extensive research to find where the origins of my family came from. I first wanted answers as to why I was the only one born in San Diego, California. Everyone else in my household was born in El Paso. It turns out that my dad was training to be apart of Border Patrol. And the training required him to move his family to San Diego. Eventually I came into the family. They lived out in San Diego, for a year and a half after I was born and then relocated back to El Paso. Eventually my two other sisters were born in El Paso, and we have lived here ever since. 
But to understand where the Fourniers, come from, I needed to find out where we came from. I sought to find out where my grandparents came from. My grandmother and grandfather from my fathers side were both born in El Paso. I asked if any way they were affected by the Repatriation Act. I was surprised to learn that she had never heard of it before as well as the treatments that immigrants were receiving during those times. They are both unfortunately not with us anymore so I can't ask them more questions about those times. I did find out that my grandpa's dad did migrate from Mexico to El Paso. The timeline gets alittle fuzzy after that, but they are not just from Mexico. They moved from France to Mexico and then to the United States.

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