Where did we leave off yesterday? Oh yeah, we found out that my last name Paulino actually came from my Great Great Grand Mother and not from my Great Great Grand Father.
Now, with that piece of information the quest becomes figuring out who my GGGM was, and more importantly who her parents were.
The first clue we had is that she had my Great Grand Father in 1893 but my Grand Father was born in 1931 and he told me yesterday by the time he was born she had already passed away. So we have a 1893-c.1931 window to look at Cementery registries and try to find out the year she passed away so that way we could then, with a name and a year, request a Death Certificate at the Civil Office.
I first meant to write a little bit each day as if in a documentary type of writing, but the truth is that ever since my arrival to Guate (as the locals refer to the capital) everything, and I mean everything has been an experience after another.
This past Thursday, October 21st, the Spanish River High School’s WSRH-TV and Gibson Guitars presented Rock the River in Boca Raton, FL. For this event nine bands gathered to offer their music and stage presence for about three hours. Local bands and artists Wing It, Celestial Sound, Fourth and Ten, Alaska, Dead Bang!, The Funky Nuggets, and Brett Lowenstern led the first part of the event while 
, the GoPro “rod” and attached a string to the camera housing holding a nacho chip on the other side.
One of the little surprises I’ve encountered while living in Dublin, GA is that there’s a strong connection between local churches and missions in Latin America. Each year there are medical missions, students and construction groups that travel to Mexico, Dominican Republic, other Latin American countries, and most recently Haiti, with the purpose of lending a helping hand.
