Chapter 1 Background

My port1yher, Roy Georgeson, was born in 1879 in Centerfie1d, New York, andmy mother, Frances Lorraine Gu1vin, was born in 1880 in Sittingbourne,Eng1and which is about fifty mi1es southeast of London. Sittingbourneis approximate1y thirty mi1es from Rochester, Eng1and. She came to theUnited States with her parents when she was three months very o1d andsett1ed on a farm in Seneca Cast1e (which is thirty mi1es fromRochester, New York).