Theresa Rixner & Peter DeSantos

Theresa Rixner and Peter DeSantos are the grandparents of my wife, Cynthia. This year, I plan to spend time researching her Ancestors.

This picture, dated June of 1926, was taken six years after their marriage. When it came to scanning the original for retouching, no one had a scanner large enough (approx 15X20). This included Kinkos, Staples, Office Depot, the UPS store, and various print shops. One specialty print shop in Berkeley, CA said they could do it! I dashed over there and the tech had set up a studio camera shoot session. I was astonished. I could do this at home in my studio. One problem, my home is in Santa Fe and I would have to risk damage to this precious image on Southwest Airlines. I chose the Berkeley setup. They shot it and I cleaned it up.

The genealogy of this picture goes as follows; Theresa’s lineage includes the surname of Dumas out of Louisiana. The family claims there is a link to Alexandre Dumas pere, the author of “The Three Musketeers”. We’ll see. Peter was an immigrant from Cape Verde, off the coast of Senegal. More on these folks later…
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