In September 2000, my mother (Helen Lambert) and I flew to Kaunas, in Lithuania. Her parents, Rozalija (Kancleryte) and Juozas Navadauskas (Mama and Tete) came to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1913 and were never able to return. Although my grandfather's older sister and one of his brothers also lived in the U.S., none of my grandmother's family came. So the Kancleriai family was missing one branch, and my mother is the oldest twig. Our visit reunited the Navadauskai branch with the rest of the Kanclerai tree.
This is my diary, or journal, of that wonderful adventure.
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