Gerum O. Salatan Web Site

My name is Gerum Salatan and I started this site.This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is a great system that allows anyone like you and I to create a private site for their family, build their family tree and share family photos. Our family tree is posted online on this site! There are 8 names in our family site.The site was last updated on Sep 8 2009, and it currently has 1 registered member(s). If you wish to become a member too, please click here.   Enjoy!I have included here the brief history of our clan: Gregorio Salatan - Serena Rivera Clan. THE ROOTS            “He who does not look back to where he came from will not know where he is going” (Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan). So goes a well-known maxim. Certainly in order to know our ancestors, we must dig out everything about them, everything that hasn’t been told yet.              This only covers the facts and stories from our Grand Parents.  Gregorio Sapiyay Salatan  Gregoio Sapiyay Salatan was born on May 28, 1928 to Jacinto Salatan and Benita Sapiyay both aborigines of Sugbo (now Cebu City). He was the youngest of the three siblings, namely: Eugenia (eldest) and Felia. He spent his teenage together with his family in a certain sitio Balok a place in Villanueva, which was formerly under the municipality of Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.  Gregorio or Loloy as he is commonly called by his family, only finished Grade two. However, he became familiar in their place because of his mastery in the application of board feet in logging and the like.  Serena Sayanap Rivera              Serena “Day-ing” Sayanap Rivera was born to Guillermo Quirino Rivera (a native from Manila, who spent most of his teenage in Cebu), and Angela Sayanap (native of Malitbog, Bukidnon), on August 17, 1927. She spent her younger days in Malitbog and later her youth in Claveria, which was once under the province of Bukidnon. She is the third among the six siblings of Guillermo and Angela, namely: Diosdado, Assuncion, Serena, Vicente, Julia, Assuncionitas.  The Anointed Union. The meeting of Tatay Gregorio and Nanay Day-ing was meant by God that it resulted to a blessed matrimony.             Their first meeting was in Claveria, where the family of Nanay Day-ing resided. Since Tatay Gorio’s eldest sister Eugenia was married by a Claveriahanon who lived in Claveria, it might be the avenue of their first meeting. The magic of their fruitful union was so unusual - no courtship, neither had mutual relationship. It was just in a sudden. It was one day when the Salatan family asked the Rivera’s the hands of Serena that if willed be married to Gregorio. Gorio and Day-ing then shared their vows in a holy matrimony at the Nuestra Señora dela Candelaria Parish Church in the Municipality of Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on March 31, 1948. After their marriage, they resided at Sitio Balok, a place in Villanueva (which was once under the municipality of Tagoloan). They spent less than a decade there and transferred to Kisolon, Sumilao Bukidnon and lived in there with her Manang Dolores, Nanay Day-ing’s igso (god sister).  (To be continued......)