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Without any of the intervening updates, I find myself at Drexel's Shrine researching the congregation, the school and my grandmother's participation in it.

Already some of the puzzle pieces are recovered, though they do not necessarily fit together yet.

My grandmother's name appears haphazardly in the enrollment records, perhaps because it was the most complicated. Margarita became Maggie and Corina need not change though the spelling was sometimes altered to a more English sounding Corinne. Aureliano, not Pete, shows up at the beginning and then in subsequent years though not necessarily contiguously. Another person who may be a "cousin" also shows up. Grandma is not there contiguously either ...leading to more questions than answers.

Were they all sent in a difficult year and the older ones brought home occasionally to work? Were they always there and just not always accounted for?

I am doing academic research, with scant time to get through all the folders. So the time with the grandma stuff is limited.

I am seriously considering giving tomorrow's shorter day to family stuff. We'll see ...