I love stories, specifically those stories that take us back into our history and fill us with meaning in our present. My family ancestry is primarily Franco-American, also described as French-Canadian heritage.
From a young age, I began a mission to piece my family’s known history together: not just stories of individuals, but of our Franco-American story as a whole.
I’m originally from New Hampshire, where my French-Canadian immigrant ancestors settled. But I primarily grew up in Iowa, where some French presence is known but my heritage was not common knowledge at all. Nobody around me knew what a “Franco-American” was.
