Montalan Genealogy

Welcome to a Montalan Family Tree

I built this web site mainly to trace the roots of my family. However, there are
other reasons for this site that visitors must know about:

My online journal of research
Haunting the family across generations are unanswered questions about the roots of the Montalan family in the Philippines. Though the family is relatively small, there are unknown branches that cannot be accounted for by a common kin. If not for the rare chance encounters that occurred with different generations in different eras, these families could not have discovered each other's existence.

Other than a name that is unmistakably identical, these individual families acknowledge that their own ancestors came from Cavite and that, in the 18th century, their patriarchs were known for greatly defying the colonial Spanish authorities.This section will explore the telltale truth about the Montalan Brothers: whether their story is a myth or a forgotten episode in the family's history. Another section carries my research to an earlier timeline possibly from middle to late 17th century. It tells of a discovery that the Montalan family in the Philippines could have originated from France. Pls. see Lost Tribe?.

A reservation for other family trees
Originally, my intention was to focus the site round the Montalan family (naturally). However, I realized that my blood also carries the lineages of other clans through the matriarchs who bore the offsprings of the Montalan family. These lineages as embodied in their maiden names, including the families started by the Montalan women who married into the surnames of their spouses, are also given importance as related bloodlines.

Window to the world
This site serves as point of contact to family members and relatives who have migrated to other countries, worked overseas, or who have simply lost touch with kins. It is also an invitation for the other branches of Montalan to correspond and share accounts about their lineage. However sketchy or seemingly unrelated their stories may be, these can hold clues to what may be a common ancestral origin for all the Montalan branches.

Unofficial scrapbook of the Old World Filipinas
Lastly, this site contains a collection of Filipiniana treasures, which include historical documents and vintage sketches and narratives about the Philippines; the kind that is rather uncommon for the school textbooks, or that which may provide simple enjoyment from appreciation of life in the Philippines as it was back then --with little references to revolutions, brave fallen heroes, and bad colonial government. (Hey, there is as much discontent in the world now. But that doesn't stop us Filipinos from laughing at our misfortunes and enjoying life! Besides, personally I'm tired of today's creeping commercialization of history, that is tainted with political undertones from rich descendants of certain heroes, specially those who are celebrated and honored as the noble forefathers but, in reality, were collaborators of the colonial invaders.)

Mostly these documents were downloaded all over the internet with their sources cited, linked to and given credit for making these valuable relics of the Philippine past available.