This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRC.2ACE/5600.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: M. Collins, When I click on your name it gives me an email address, with your permission I would like to send you some photos. I do not own a scanner so I cannot send the one of my father, however his grandson my son John is the mirror image of my father. As well my father looked exactly like my grandfather, they were known for being blond and green / blue eyed. My uncles were of darker hair and eye color. I spoke with my grandmother tonight, she is 98 but remembers the past like yesterday. According to her my grandfather Modesto Guillermo Castellanos Rodriquez had parents who came from the Canary Islands, he was born in Cuba and had brothers and sisters in Limonar. But he would never speak of them, my father never spoke of his uncles or aunts either. For some reason there seemed to have been either a rift in this family, or as you said due to distance contact was lost. Either case my grandmother could not get information out of my grandfather, he would just say he was a simply farmer from Limonar. Although he was a successful farmer and well known. My mother was taken to Havana shortly after her marriage to my father, to visit an uncle of my fathers. However my mother who's memory is not good, does not remember his name and met him only once. I don't believe it would be this Nicolas Castellanos, a man that was a Mayor would be remembered, I would think by my mother. So I have no more information, I only have my mother and grandmother left and I have no siblings. We could be connected but I would not be able to provide any proof. Unless we all have a remarkable resemblance, I look very much like the Castellanos side in features. It is remarkable to have a Domingo Castellanos Rodriquez and a Modesto Castellanos Rodriquez from the very same town, and not have any connections between the two. I wish I had more, it would be such a pleasure to find that your family and mine were one and the same. I will send you the photo of my son John, perhaps you will find something there. And if not well Castellanos is a wonderful name that I have always been proud off and wish we could all find what we are searching for.