I wanted to share a crazy little thing that happened.  A couple of weeks ago, I was doing a google search for Leana Khouang to find her blog or something but mistyped it and put Lena Khouang.  It just so happened to pull up a facebook of an actual Lena Khouang.  I was at work so I wasn't able to pull up the facebook at the time.  This past Saturday night, this thought entered my mind so I again, googled Lena Khouang.  Turns out she lives in Philly and so forth.  I clicked on another link and it was a facebook directory of people from Kho - Khp or something like that.  I noticed by my name that there were 3 people with a very similar last name to mine "Khouangrasavongsay", just off by one letter.  So in my mind I was thinking how odd, I've never known anyone besides my immediate family to have my last name or even anything similar.  They all lived in France and I assume they were related (turns out they are).  So I proceeded to send a friend request and a little introduction to why.

I wake up Sunday morning and I was accepted and she messaged me back.  We began messaging back and forth on the facebook chat.  We basically chatted about things to see if we could make a connection on relation.  I learned alot about her.  Her dad was Lao and mom French.  He immigrated to France when he was young and thats where he settled.  She's also currently engaged.  We didn't get very far because honestly, I just don't know very much about my dad's side of the family.  I was never interested when I was young and never bothered to ask or listen.  After he passed away, the chain was kind of broken since I had never met any member of his immediate family.  I know the family we have in Davis County is on my dad's side but other than that, I don't know anyone else.  I knew we had family in France and that "Thong" is a part of the family name.  My name being Thongsoune, dad Thongsy, and grandfather Thongsone sp?.  My dad never told stories or anything of that nature so thats about all I knew.  We ended with she would ask her family if any of them had heard of Thongsy.

I get a message from her on Monday saying she talked to her dad and that he knew my dad.  They grew up together in Laos and are cousins.  She explained the whole story to him and her grandmother and they wanted to chat with me and thats where we are currently at.  I was super excited!  Its really one of the first connections I've made with family on my dad's side.  That's about where we're at with it.  Also, I just got off the phone with my cousin in Layton and she gave me the low down a little and it seems like I have a very interesting family history that I know nothing about.  Its going to be fun uncovering all this!

Until next time!

TK