I would like to welcome you to the Cooper Mitchell 
Shipman-Cash Ancestors page.  Linda Ione Malaussena is Cooper`s paternal 
grandmother.  Our ancestors are an interesting and diversified group. We do have a 
scallywag and ruffian or two, which adds interest to our heritage.  In each of our 
lines, one person was courageous enough to cross the ocean from Europe and make a new 
life in the United States. 
 
 A project like this cannot be 
done alone. Special thanks (in no particular order) go to Peggy Bennett, Sandra 
Fondon, Beverly Brunelle, Jane Covington, Francisco Parra, Cathy Stahl, Louise 
Rieke, Cyndi Rowell and Alberta Malaussena.  The `Above and Beyond`award goes 
to Nancyanne Carkeek, a RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness) volunteer 
from New Jersey who diligently searched records and found much about the 
Barend ancestors.
Nancyanne is hereby made an honorary member of our family.
All these people were kind and encouraging, and 
generously shared their own research. A special mention must go to Diane 
McClay who found the delightful tidbit about the Malaussena mailbox thief in a 
1936 issue of the New York Times. (See Malaussena, Louis, b. 1920.)  That same 
mailbox thief was killed during World War II while serving in the military.
This page is a work-in-progress. Please feel free to 
e-mail Linda with any comments, corrections or suggestions.  
Linda: dogandbirdlady@yahoo.com
 
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