Financial, Economic and Social Mood Update (October 1, 2019)
Financial, Economic and Social Mood Update (October 1, 2019) The topic for the October 2019 has to do with our own Borromeo family in the Philippines. Rusty, his wife Susie and I work together to run our two sites (the main site for the family plus the separate site dedicated to the monthly blog) as well as our 3 respective Facebook pages. We’re connected to more than 3,600 individuals via Facebook, 67 percent of whom belong to the extended worldwide Borromeo family. Add to this more than 1,400 people connected to us via Instagram (a Facebook subsidiary company) or via e-mail, 400 more individuals via LinkedIn and 100 plus people via Skype. Our websites have received more than 1.5 million hits from visitors in 196 countries since we went live in November of 2006 (my nephew Matthew runs the technical side of these sites). I’ve published 11 books since 2010, 3 of which are about Volkswagen, the car company based in Germany. I am the number one community poster on the worldwide VW Facebook page, which has over 34 million followers. Now back to the important news regarding the Borromeo family. Prior to the Second World War in the Philippines (December 1941 – September 1945), my maternal grandfather’s best friend and first degree cousin Marcial Borromeo y Guerrero completed a genealogy of the family which established that the first Borromeo in the Philippines settled in Cavite City on Luzon in 1744 by way of Canton (Guangzhou) in China. Successive generations settled in Iloilo City (on Panay) in 1769, in Tanjay City on Negros in 1794 and finally in Cebu City in 1819. The records of this genealogy were lost or destroyed during the violence of the Second World War, as was much else. For example, both the ancestral homes of…