| Dear all, Until this morning I hadn't a "REAL" story ….. I didn't
wanted to tell how, three years ago, I pretentiously discussed with the
dealer, as if I knew something, when I bought my first rugs in Turkey. He
surely quickly understood that I hadn't any experience and I paid for this
bragging ten times the real price. Everybody knows how I met Steve Price
through the Net and how with the reawake of Turkotek we have now the
pleasure to exchange regularly our thoughts between gentlemen. I had
already told how I met Marla Mallett, Swan Wendel and Mike Tshebull during
last ICOC and the good moments we have had. Some pretty pictures of this
event can be seen on Marla Web site. But now I have something …. Rugs help
you to discover one part of your family "Are we related ? " This is the
tittle of the posting I received this morning and only anonymous parts of
it are reproduced here. "Greetings to you all, I've been searching for my
European relatives for a bit, on and off. Today I typed in Deschuyteneer
just to see if there were any connections on the Web and all of you popped
up! …My great-grandparents, ……..Deschuyteneer, immigrated from Charleroi,
Belgium in the late 1880's. They settled in a small town in western
Pennsylvania …….. My father, …. was the youngest of 9 children and he was
born in 1920. He is the last remaining child. .. left 9 children and 18
grandchildren and now there are many many great- grand and great-great
grandchildren…." I knew that one branch of my family immigrated at the end
of the 19th century to the USA but never search to know who they were and
knows nothing about the American branches. My grand mother is from
Charleroi and my grand father from Bievenne. They inhabited in Charleroi a
long time … Yes … having post on the Turkotek site where my correspondent
found my name, will give me the opportunity to discover one part of my
family. Cordially, Daniel |