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Welcome to the Riva – Alaria Connections. This blog is an attempt to preserve family history from my father's side and to share it with others who might be interested in following our ancestors over the past hundred plus years.

There are three ways to find your way around this blog. 1) Under 'Family History' (right hand column) you'll find links that are arranged in chronological order of when events happened in the family including documents, photos and other research found. 2)
The 'Blog Archives' is a list of blog entries organized in their posted order. 3) 'Labels' are links to blog entries that include some mention of the key words listed. My research has gone as far as I'll probably take it but if anyone reading this has something to add, I'd be delighted if you'd leave it in a comment. Or to just contact me just leave a comment at the end of any blog entry and I promise not to publish your e-mail address. ©
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April 20, 2019

Found my Grandmother's Grave

Just a quick post to keep this blog from disappearing into cyber space and to say that my niece, last summer, was able to find the cemetery were my grandmother was most likely buried. A historian in Grandville, IL said a lot of people who died in the Great Flu Epidemic from the hospital where she died were buried in unmarked graves in this part of their cemetery.

Here's the pictures she took of the area where the unmarked graves are well maintained. Decades and decades after her death my dad and uncle had bought a marker for her grave, drove down south to place it but they left it outside of Catholic church's cemetery where a priest told them to because there was no record of her being there. And no one in the family could find the stone since.