Hello to all!

I have been working on my family tree for about four years now. My father was 
adopted at an early age during the depression years. All the years growing up, 
I was told that my father was part Italian. My father left his adopted family 
at a young age to work as a ranch hand in Nevada. The family that adopted him 
was in fact Italian (Michela's), but after I was able to finally determine his 
biological parents, I learned that both parents were from New England since 
the 1600s until his parents left there to roam the country. They eventually 
broke up after my father was adopted; my grandmother settling in Texas and 
remarrying, still raising my father's other two sons, my grandfather 
eventually settled in Great Falls, Montana and was the founder of the Society 
for Social Justice where people could go who needed help filing for 
disability. Unfortunately, both my grandparents on my father's side passed 
away before I could meet them. I was successful in reuniting my father with 
his living brother from Texas and his niece.



My dear mother, who passed away from cancer in 1995, was the kindest, most 
generous, compassionate woman whom I will miss forever. As I lost my daughter 
in 2001 in a car accident, I have learned that family is more important than 
ever and that passing on a family tree to my son is an important priority to 
me. My mother was an immigrant from Quebec when she came to the US to marry in 
the early 1950s. That marriage was short-lived and it was when she came to 
Nevada for a "quickie divorce" was I conceived after she met and married my 
father David Michela. My mother's mother was an immigrant from England to 
marry a French-Canadian, Joseph Saucier. My grandfather Joseph came from a 
long line of Saucier's in Ontario Canada. Unfortunately, both grandparents 
passed away before I was born. I intend to complete my family tree as 
accurately as I can with the excitement of new family connections and family 
history being added continually. 

If you have any connections to my lines, feel free to contact with any 
information.