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"Who Do You Think You Are?" Recap: Brooke Shields Episode (tRSSNews): horrible to my mother and I started disliking her at a very young age,” Shields says. How sad. She meets Michelle Chubenko, a genealogist specializing in New Jersey family history. They search birth certificates on microfilm. They find Theresa's and learn mother’s name, Ida. Next, they look for the sister. Excellent strategy. Surprise! Ida had two other children! Brothers John and Edward were born in 1910 and 1914. John died in infancy. But what happened to Edward? Shields is eager to find out. “You feel like you’re a detective,” she says, which is exactly what I think so many people like about genealogy. On a busy street, she meets historian Tom McCabe. He shows her a 1910 image of the same street, where Theresa Dollinger lived as a child. Chubenko has more vital records to show Shields. Ida, Theresa’s grandmother, died of uterine cancer when Theresa was 10. Shields realizes her grandmother probably had to be an adult and a “parent” to her younger siblings at a young age. Another tragedy: Edward died by accidental drowning at age 13—presumably while in Theresa’s care. Chubenko gives Shields an article about the drowning, and she goes to the spot where it happened. Local boys were bathing in the river
Created on May 21, 2012