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When Sue and Willis first began to see each other they heard that they were somehow distantly related. After all, the DALLONS name was pretty rare in America. It was the rareness of the name that first brought them together. When Sue was about 10, her family, her father, mother, sister, and brother, were traveling home to Los Angeles through Bakersfield when they came across the DALLONS gas and store on the main highway south. Curious about their namesake, they decided to stop and get acquainted. The two families found they knew some relatives in common, but did not really know how they were related. Years later, Willis was in Los Angles and decided to look up this DALLONS family that had once visited his family. His romance with Sue followed, and after World War II they were married and raised their family. After both of Willis' parents had passed away, their son, Victor, was going through a stack of old postcards that Willis' father had kept. Victor asked about the people in the correspondence. This started the project to find out who our ancestors were. Learning about how Sue and Willis were related was almost pure luck. Willis was showing Victor how to do genealogical research at a Family History Center. They knew that the DALLONS family had come from Charleroi, Belgium, and looked up microfilm records. Victor selected and ordered at random a microfilm record in the right time frame from the many available. When the film arrived weeks later, Victor found the marriage records for both Jean Baptiste DALLONS and Louis Leopold DALLONS, both of which listed Nicolas J DALLONS and Marie CANVA as parents. |
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