Where it all began...well...basically

This is a photo of my paternal grandfather John Mc Parland with his wife Mary (Hughes) Mc Parland and their oldest son John Mc Parland in 1919. My father Mark Mc Parland was born a few years later in December of 1922 and was the youngest of their three boys. My uncle Peter was the middle one. This is the only picture that exists of my grandfather (to my knowledge). He died about a year after my father was born. To make things easier on my grandmother (so they thought) his brother Thomas (my great uncle) and his wife Mollie took my father from Staten Island to Manhattan and raised him as their own child. So this is where my journey begins..or rather began..back in NY. My branch of the tree would grow through Manhattan..into Brooklyn..take root..sprawl into NJ..back to Brooklyn again..extend out to L.I ...sending even deeper roots..finally popping up in AZ of all places. It is HERE where my legacy truly started...and where I stare at it on a daily basis. It is ever changing...