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• 04/18/12 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Kevin
• 04/18/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Frank Dunnigan
• 04/18/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Jo Anne Quinn
• 04/18/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Frank Dunnigan
• 04/18/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Jo Anne Q.
• 04/18/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Kevin
• 04/18/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Charles
• 04/19/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Tim Dineen
• 04/20/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Paul Rosenberg
• 04/21/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Bill Codori
• 04/21/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Jo Anne Q.
• 04/22/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Bill Codori
• 04/23/12 Re: 1906 Collateral damage - - posted by Frank Dunnigan

Re: 1906 Collateral damage -

Good question, Frank!
The oldest people I ever met were my parents! They adopted me "late in life." My Mom and Dad were both born in 1893 (and experienced the '06 Quake). Dad was the eldest in his family, and Mom was the youngest in hers. My Aunt Anna (my Mom's sister who lived with us) was born in 1892. Sadly, they NEVER spoke of the quake, even though all of them were old enough to remember it.

In essence, Mom and Dad should have been my grandparents, not my parents. By the time Mom and Dad adopted me in 1947, all of their elders had passed. Guess this is one of the small sorrows of being adopted by "older" folks. No opportunity to meet the Grandmas and Grandpas, and Aunts and Uncles, and hear their stories.

I will be forever grateful to the WNP - because of them I was able to connect with one paternal nephew - now a cherished, rediscovered cousin. And neither of us have been successful in locating the kids of the only other uncle (brother of our respective Dads) who also had some kids...

ADDENDUM: What in heck is going on with Gladys Hansen's site? They had a fit-and-start back in July, 2010 and freshened up their '06 list of the dead. But they completely removed their survivor list. Back then, I communicated with some nice people at sfgeneaology.com, who told me they had offered to help update the lists, but were roundly ignored. I even contacted Carl Nolte who "promised" to look into it, but I never heard from him again...