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What I Know about my Ancestry
By Carol Gibson
All of the Romanians thought I was such a beautiful child. They loved pinching my chubby cheeks. Grandma used to cradle my face in her hands and gaze upon me with great affection, saying "'You my Carolina Moon." In photographs, I was the one out of three sisters who always got placed in the foreground. I'm thinking maybe that's why my mother used to look at me and say "You got your dad's nose, and it has ruined your looks." She didn't want me to be conceited, I imagine. As we gradually got more exposed to American culture, I found that being chubby wasn't really an asset. I've been on a continual diet for most of my life since then. I can look at a pastry, or a piece of chocolate cake and immediately gain two pounds. I can remember watching enviously as the two sisters piled mashed potatoes on their plates, covering all with sinful amounts of gravy. Yet they always remained slim with their sleek, raven hair glimmering atop. Along with chubbiness, I was a towhead with unruly hair that always presented a challenge for my mother when we were little. Getting a comb through it was nigh impossible at times, much less getting beautiful braids done like my sisters. I grew to hate my bulbous English nose that I got from my father's side of the family. I got the down turned English eyes too. Growing into womanhood, I began to look like my aunts from Dad's side of the family. I had slim hips and broad shoulders, but I didn't get the statuesque qualities that would have come from his gene pool. We didn't get to see much of his side of the family though there were fourteen brothers and sisters. I was a happy little girl, and liked to whistle. Tata (what we called our grandfather) would chastise me for whistling, though. He would say "Don't whistle, it make you chest big." My great grandmother in Romania lived to be 105. Tata had found Grandma, and proposed marriage early on. He said he would take her to America if she would marry him. She did.
I saw a copy of their actual signatures from Ellis Island on the net compliments of Ancestry.com. |
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