A Note to the Reader...

The story of Antonio and Mary Fernandez is fascinating, and it has been the longtime wish of their descendents to tell their story to future generations. It has been our great honor to help make that wish finally come true. Our family has compiled as much information about this pioneering family as we could, and we are proud to share it with you now. The Fernandez family has grown quite large in just a few generations in the new world, so the focus of this book is on the couple who brought our family to America across the great wide ocean from Portugal, and on the first generation of children they raised here. There are many family members responsible for this book ~ every person who took a photograph and passed it on, every person who ever told a story of the old days, every person who ever drew up a family tree ~ each of these people have helped create a rich family lore. Full credit cannot be given to all of these people, but we believe we can honor them best by recording what we know from the stories and photographs collected be the various branches of the family. We invite you take a step back in time and learn what it was like to live on Mound Key and in the little village of Estero, Florida in those pioneer days of so long ago.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Appearance in the Ft. Myers News-Press ~ Tropicalia

http://www.news-press.com/article/20110605/LIFESTYLES/106050306/Florida-by-book

Our family book as been mentioned in an article in the Ft. Myers News-Press ~ Tropicalia section on June 5, 2011 called "Florida by the Book" by Amy Bennett Williams.  I wanted to share this with everyone.  Thank you Amy!!

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