Juan Manuel Beltrán Beltrán was the son of two cousins. My great grandparents had played together during their whole childhood. They got along very well. The families decided that the best thing was to marry them because they liked each other so much. They were fourteen years old. They both had the same last name […]

“Let us all rejoice in the Lord, for our Savior has been born into the world.” With this, the communion at Rooster Mass was started. Our Christmas tree was installed every year in the music room. We would push the piano out to the living room, and place it against the wall, as far as […]

During my childhood it was traditional to go every year to visit my uncle, the brother of my mother, at his house in Valparaiso. My uncle had married his wife Olga when I was 2 years old. I still remember hiding under the long train of her beautiful white dress after the ceremony when they […]

One year, at summer time, my uncle Sergio, brother of my father, called to tell us that one of the wines of my grandfather had received many awards at a wine exhibit. Of course, we were very proud of this and went to visit my grandfather at his farm. After one of the big lunches, […]

My paternal grandfather had vineyards. He kept the wine in big oak foudres, (wine barrels) at a warehouse that was some steps away from the house. Some Sundays he would invite people for lunch at their big dining hall. My grandfather would present the guests with a certain kind of wine. He would have just […]

The first thing I remember about my paternal grandmother was accompanying her to milk a cow. She was a tall and handsome woman with green eyes and a cute little hair bun and a very strong sense of duty. From having the breakfast of my grandfather ready at 5:00am, to baking the bread for all […]

Mother was born Maria Beatriz Antonieta Peeters Andrade. My grandfather was a physician from Belgium. My grandmother was the daughter of Jose Andrade Huidobro and Albina Moss Douglas. Both of the parents of my great grandmother Albina were from Scotland. My mother was born on the Island of Chiloe, Chile. Chiloé was one of the […]

My maternal grandfather was born in Ghent, Belgium, at the end of the 1877 and raised in Bruges. Several of his six sisters were beguines in the The Beguinage (Begijnhof) in Bruges where they waited for a gentleman to come and offer them a married life. Another sister went to a convent in Heidelberg, Germany, […]

When my father was preparing his dissertation to graduate as a dental surgeon he had a very interesting puzzle to solve. His theme, I believe, was on the maxillary deformation produced by cleft palate or something similar. A theme like that required an in depth study of the intraoral and extraoral anatomy of the dental […]

Dr Pedro Beltran was born on a farm on December 3 or 4, 1903 or 1904. He said he was born at midnight so the day was not precise. Also his father waited a year or two to go register his birth and nobody is sure if he got the year right. There had been […]