We spent the next hour sitting at the bar at Tekila"s, brainstorming. I felt bad taking up seats for so long, but the crowd had thinned and Jan said she didn"t mind. Yet another reason she"s our favorite bartender.
Grace"s idea about googling how to find a lost relative in Cuba turned up dozens of leads, mostly genealogy sites such as geneaology.com, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, and Cubagenweb.org, which was a how-to guide for genealogical research for Cuban people. While this information could prove useful eventually, I wasn"t at that stage yet, since I knew nothing about my father or his (and my) relatives in Cuba, not to mention that he had a fairly common surname and I didn"t know his place of birth. The only thing I knew for sure was his age. In her letter, my mom had mentioned that the
