A NEW JOURNEY TO MAURITIUS

Hi there,

this is my  new blog set up specifically for our continuing journey regarding our family research. I have separated this from my other blog relating to my journey with the Ancestral spirits.

Tomorrow night I head off, back to Mauritius, for the third time since 2006. I was there again in 2010. I go this time with some trepidation, given that the last time I went, my darling mum died one week exactly, after my return. So it's with mixed emotions that I go now. It's time to start winding up this project, and completing our book. It has been held up, with our lass of mum, which set us back greatly, but dad has come back keener as ever, to get it done. 

Since 2006, we have had a researcher attached to the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Mauritius, searching for any record of our family heritage in Mauritius. This has been a real challenge, with nothing to show for our history in Mauritius, except for our family members living there today. 

In 2006, when I visited Mauritius with dad, we were told of the resting place of Grampa Thomas' father, and visited  his grave, his headstone, and this was unreal. But when I returned alone to Mauritius in 2010 to check his burial records, I found that it was not him in the grave afterall. The grave that our Mauritius family have visited for many years. The grave that the family know IS his, ON RECORD, is not. Therein lies a new mystery to add to all the others.

I have  a couple of wonderful people waiting for me in Mauritius to attend to the search even further than before, and they are key Mauritian historical researchers and authors in their own right. They know the systems in archives and have a list of places to take me every day next week. So it's going to be a busy week. And need to spend plenty of time with our family, who I now feel so close to, since we first met in 2006. Dear Aunty Priscilla who was 93 when we met her in 2006, passed away late last year, and I am so very glad we video recorded her storytelling of her knowledge of our family history, then. Priceless!! But it will be sad to visit there without seeing her this time.

Anywho, I hope you will follow my journey with me this week, as I share more of our search and my experiences in my great great grandfathers homeland/land of his birth. This is our final effort to seek this information, for the BOOK....mainly because we have been waiting 6 years, and now it's time to draw a line in the sand, and get it completed with what we know after this trip. So please come along on my journey, and I will show you the sites, and do a little storytelling along the way.

Luvyaguts'

Rob xxooxx