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I am originally from San Diego, California. I married my Brazilian wife, Anna Carmen Jardine, in Downey, California in 1963. In 1969, we moved to her hometown here in Recife, Brazil. We have two grown children, Adrianna and Bobby, and one granddaughter, Marialua. I have taught high school Social Studies at the American School of Recife for the past thirty years. About five years ago, I became interested in my family history and started trying to learn how to find out something about my ancestors. All of my grandparents immigrated to America from the Old Country between 1890 and 1913. On my mother's side of my family tree, there are the LOUREIRO and MOULES families from the island of Terceira in the Azores. On my father's side, my ancestors came from Weglew, Poland and Riga, Latvia. My FABISAK ancestors settled among the Polish community in Northampton, Massachusetts between 1896 and 1900. My grandmother, Jeanette SACHS, arrived from Latvia a year or so before the outbreak of World War I. Most of the Azoreans were dairy farmers and settled either in the Los Angeles area or in California's San Joaquin Valley around Modesto. Jeanette worked in one of those sweat shops in New York for a while, then moved to San Diego, where she met and married my grandfather, John Samuel Fabisak. It has been very interesting researching these people, and I have discovered very much about them with the exception of Jeanette Sachs. Apparently, she immigrated to America with false documents, was very secretive about her background, and had to flee Riga because she had belonged to an anarchist group whose members were under suspicion by the Czar's police. During my research, I found many cousins living in various parts of the United States and on Terceira, especially from my Fabisak and Moules lines, and we communicate from time to time. I have recently discovered that Anna's Scottish ancestors came from the Jardine Clan from Lochmaben, Scotland. This clan goes back before the Battle of Hastings in 1066. There is much evidence of their intermarrying with both the Dinwoodie and Douglas clans. Sir William Alexander Jardine helped to settle Nova Scotia. He took a group of Scottish settlers there in 1629, and they established and built Fort Charles. Robert Douglas was named Duke of Queensberry and served King William in Edinbough. The Dinwoodies sent one of their sons, Sir Robert Dinwoodie, to America, where he served as governor of Virginia between 1751 and 1758. It was this Dinwoodie who sent young George Washington on his ill-fated journey into the Pennsylvania wilderness against the French in 1755. There is also a Sir William Jardine who is famous for his involvement in instigating the Opium Wars in China , which led to the British acquisition of Hong Kong. So, it goes on and on. There is so much to know and so much to do. I need three hundred years to learn how to research and to find out about my ancestors; and even though it is sometimes frustrating, it is also fun!! If you have read my little tale to this point; and if anything has rung a bell, please communicate with me. Maybe we have something valuable to share with each other.	ED FABISAK AND FAMILY IN RECIFE, BRAZIL Updated May 12, 2001
	Edward Walter Fabisak Rua São Sebasião,209 Piedade, Jaboatão, Pernambuco 54410-500 Brazil Fax: 55-81-3341-4716 kasibafe@elogica.com.br
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