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I just found you doing who knows what google searches as I'm prone to do during my research. I'm really glad you're here and I might be inspired to start my own substack. Seems like a good place to document things.

Yesterday, researching my family at home which is where the paperwork is so I don't have their names in front of me, an entry stopped me dead in my tracks. "died at sea". Both husband and wife. It was so striking I didn't have the emotional capacity to try and figure out what happened to the child? Or were they adults by then? All I could do was stare at those words. Died at sea.

I, of course should have assumed that my family had members that did so. I've identified probably 20-30 different families that are in my direct line that weren't able to remain on continental soil. It only makes sense being that I'm from Louisiana. But until yesterday I hadn't found any direct casualties of the expulsion in my line.

Right before that I found an ancestor that died in liverpool. Again, knowing that people were sent to England and seeing it right in front of me apparently not being the same thing.

Anyway, I say all of that for the purpose of just saying thank you. I'm glad you're here and I'm happy to find another perspective of the story other than what I was told by my grandmother and history class.

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