Cousin Marco recently announced he’s got his art/portfolio sites up for viewing. He’s also put up a blog (naughty, naughty, Marc!). The top half of his head that serves as a graphic on his blog could very well be grafted on to any one of the bottom half of our (guy cousins’) faces. The hairline, forehead and bushy eyebrows are so typical of our branch of the family! Another cousin, Nate, as mentioned earlier, also has a blog. That makes three of us. But wait, there’re more. Tina over here has managed to keep her personal site alive over the years (it’s not being updated anymore though). Lolo Tom (my late grandpa’s brother) maintains the clan site (sorry, it’s password-protected). Lolo Tom gives an account of how their father emigrated to the Philippines in the late 1800s from the Fujian province of China and how he eventually settled in Naga City in Bicol.
The rest of the clan appear to be scattered all over the net.
This site details the “genealogy, history and origin” of my paternal grandmother’s side of the family, the Ursua family of Bicol. It’s amazing how the surname has been traced back to a certain Juan de Ursua who lived in the Basque Kingdom of Navarra in the 1300s.
Now my mom’s side is not so visible on the net but I know for sure that a secretive younger cousin of mine maintains a Xanga site that I’ve yet to discover.