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May 5th, 2014
Whenever Gillian Kornacki drives down Goyeau Avenue, she must wonder what life was like for her distant relatives.
“My grandma was a Goyeau, so I grew up with the stories about how that street used to be our farm,” says the fourth-year history major.
Those stories were enough to make her do a little more digging. Several years ago, while visiting her grandfather’s house, she found a genealogy book, compiled by one of her relatives during the 1970s, tracing her family’s history back 12 generations.