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It was a long shot. While vacationing in Salt Lake City after Christmas, I decided to go into the multistoried Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and do the touristy thing of beginning a genealogical search. Initially, some friendly volunteers gave me the hope that I would find some information about my family. After awhile, however, it became clear that there was just one microfilm reel that was likely to contain the birth records of only my paternal grandparents, Elena and Gonzalo Medina, and that it ended with entries from 1910. But I wasn’t sure of their birth years. They died in the 1990s, when they were, I thought, in their 80s. So I figured they were probably born toward the end of the first decade of the 20th century. And I didn’t know their birthdays: They were simple rural folk who never celebrated themselves or expected others to celebrate them in that way. But from what I thought my mother — the de facto...

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