Hello there. Sorry about the passing of your mother's mother too. Do you know what happened to Austin Blair De Savigny, after your grandmother died, in 1919?

We must be related, because our grandmother also had a child by him, in 1928. There was mention that they also lived on a ranch in Texas, where banditos threatened to kill mother & daughter. The relationship ended... Jeanne would never remember her father. The story's sad & quite complicated...

Then he married her friend (after Mila moved to the USA, with her infant daughter, Jeanne Marie, in 1929.) Both women would eventually die at age 74. In 1979, her Uncle Leo Salazar was able to tell her about Blair, as her mother had died. And last year, on 2-14-03, we lost our mother too.

Do you recognize any of these names, (or perhaps have any clearer details,) that would help us to fill in the gap of our family history?

Our mother finally realized that her firstborn son, Robert, looked like her father. Both tall, dark & handsome & of French decent on that side of the family. Also we have a family photo of him with his younger sister & parents.

We have researched another site & found that his father was William H. De Savigny, who was listed as a "U.S. Consular Agent in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in 1926."

Plus there is a story that William's wife was beautiful...

There are other children, (by a third marriage of Austin Blair De Savigny,) that had been in touch with our mother after '79.

We are attempting to go through any family history that Jeanne Marie Seeley had filed away in boxes... Quite an undertaking to find all our family.

Thank you, Victoria, for any help in this adventure...