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Since it has been 10 months from the time you wrote in Red Room about your dilemma, Valerie, and we don't know what may have transpired in the meantime, I can only hope that you have found the solution as I did. I too carried great and growing amounts of memories and information about my ancestors for a long time. I wrote and made films about other things, perhaps afraid of taking on something so personal or maybe just afraid of not being able to do justice to something so close to my heart. By the time I made the decision to plow into the material, like you, I found far more of it than would fit into a normal fiction novel. However, instead of trying to condense it all and risk the loss of vital passages, I embarked upon the journey of writing a trilogy. The first book was published last year and is doing well on line at Amazon and other major book stores, both in hardcover and now paperback. I am working on the Spanish translation, since much it deals with Latin America, and have started doing the screenplay, since I am a filmmaker and hope to eventually get it all up on the big screen. So, you see: once I decided to take the plunge, the flood gates opened. I wish you the same success. My novel is Currents of Destiny and the trilogy deals with two families who were part of a wave of people that by economic necessity left the old world Iberian coasts heading into the unknown, which turned out to be Argentina, Chile, etc. In time they continued north and after several generations and more than a century, reached North America and finally closed the circle ending up in the places their ancestors had fled. I hope to read about your grandmother one day soon. Your friend in Red Room, F. J. 'Paco' Pineiro