Lafón Ancestry! Imagine if you will, a land of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Empresses, of Pharaohs, their Chantresses, of Knights and Fair Maidens, of golden treasure beyond your wildest imagination.... also of wars, famine, treachery, revenge, torture, execution, estate seizures and bloodlust. Imagine all of this in a fledgling era of blossoming trade, yet without any modern convenience of today, stretching back three thousand five hundred years, to a time the average lifespan was twenty-seven and fifty was considered 'old.'
This is the world which ultimately delivered Raoul Ortiz Lafón onto a spread of lands originally chartered by Spain, now independent Mexico, stretching out from the Sierra Madre as far as the eye can see in the province of Chihuahua. A world which ultimately saw him flee those lands, chased by cut-throats and vagabonds, with only his life and minor possessions to start anew. After 1919, Raoul Ortiz Lafón became Raul 'Frenchy' Lafon, a United States citizen married with issue: two daughters, six grandchildren, numerous great and great-great grandchildren, all with his roots which trace back generations of ancestors to the beginnings of empires so fantastic, so spectacular, so cataclysmic, the fabric of their stories gives rise to a history of Western Civilization one might question ever existed.
But it did exist....
While we in the West can all of us claim descendency, from the whole of European civilization in the abstract, very few can trace their exact ancestors, the rise and fall of dynasties backed by DNA analysis.
Powered By Pure Hearts does exactly this, with research into the birth, death, and marriage records, through the myriad baptismal fonts, and the established pedigrees and texts of historical geneology experts and historians.
