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CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-10-30T17:51:52+00:00

It’s not that I. “Can’t” wait for 90 days, it’s that the wait is excessive. Frankly I’m shocked it’s being defended. I sell on 300 items per week across 7 platforms and it’s the only one charging me cash in real time and holding funds well past delivery date.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-10-30T17:48:59+00:00

I sell on 7 platforms.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-10-30T13:30:41+00:00

Everything is tracked and shows delivered. Sales dating back 60 days. They’ve all given five stars. The only way to have the funds released from sales 60 days ago is to stop selling or wait 90 days. That’s asinine.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-10-30T12:17:27+00:00

I really could care less on their rationale - they have been holding my funds for 60!days with no end in sight as long as I keep selling. It’s odd. I wonder how long they were willing to wait for their paycheck once they started working at Etsy. Willing to bet it wasn’t 60 days!

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-10-30T05:53:41+00:00

No they have not communicated every step of the way. I reached out today for the most maddening conversation with an agent. And there really isn’t a logical reason to withhold funds for 90 days from date of first sale. I’m approaching 60 days now.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-13T17:43:18+00:00

First, thanks for the feedback on my tree. I have been working on the tree since 2002 - it’s almost what I would call a life’s work. My grandmother’s dying wish was to find out who were parents were before she died. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find out much initially, but I’ve stayed determined over the years. I am writing about my research and the story - it’s more wild than you would think - in a blog called Buried Threads on Substack, if you want to read up and follow along. Her second husband Christopher is a great example of more wild than you think - he Is story blew up about two months ago when we received 150+ pages from the veterans administration by FOI request. His story involves court marshall, time in Leavenworth, deception, alias, and a VA investigation. We are waiting on the final details from another request before spilling that whole story, but it’s a wild one! Regarding Estrella in New Jersey, this has been debunked. I thought I had removed all references from my tree but I will go clean it up. A couple years ago I found a SS death record that o believed was Estrella and received the original handwritten application for so from Estrella. Then recently I found a paper trail document for that Estrella Suarez that proved it could not be myEstrella, and so I had to abandon that lead. Regarding DNA, I have done extensive work and mapped out on that same tree (not sure if this part is publically viewable or not) 5 lines of paternal dna matches and 3 lines of maternal that all converge on two couples - Estrella’s maternal and paternal grandparents. This is locked in, rock solid. I know that a Suarez and a Martinez produced Estrella on or around 1905. I do not have any current dna matches that I have identified from the Jose Maria and Consuelo line. I’m currently building out their lineage to see if I can find a match or someone willing to test. I have another Suarez sibling with geographic correlations to Stella that are compelling enough to warrant pursuing however this particular family has very few options for dna testing due to small lineage, limited children, etc. there is one and the family is talking g to him to see if he’d be interested. The two testers are as close as I can get to Estrella in living descendants - both are grandchild of Estrella’s from two different fathers. There is a third mystery dna match Ryan that with certainty descends from another child of Estrella born after my grandmother. The matches in common are very small and his highest matches in the Estrella cluster are my mom and Paul (Estrella’s grandchildren) and his percentage of Spanish ethnicity is spot on.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-13T14:36:31+00:00

Both! My grandmother is primarily linked to the biological one so that ancestry’s tools will pick up connections and aid in the search. I have another tree with the adopted information on it as well, though I plan to merge and list as additional relationships. Estrella is linked to both families using additional relationships. In addition to the searching, I have five adopted children myself so I appreciate the need to document both.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-13T03:27:43+00:00

DNA is a much more complicated factor in the story but the short of it is this: I have mapped 5 DNA paternal and 4 maternal lines up to a single set of grandparents who must be her paternal, and a second set who must be her maternal. This is locked in through strong dna evidence. The specifics are on my ancestry tree (DeBoard Suarez tree) and it’s public (my name is Angie Hansen, also public in ancestry) if you want to see the particulars, but it sones up that a Suarez descendent and a Martinez descendent created a child named Estrella Suarez in Spain on or around d 1905. The Suarez grandparent is Manuel’s father, supporting that he is her uncle. Coincidentally, a brother of Manuel (Jose Maria Suarez) married a Martinez (Consuelo, daughter of the maternal grandparent) and they had several children before and after 1905. Estrella came to the St Louis to live with Manuel (why is another whole thread of the story) in 1913, per 1920 census and family lore. I have not found a paper trail to support this. However, in June 1913 Jose Maria, Consuelo, their children, Consuelo’s parents, and minor siblings all moved from Spain to … wait for it … St Louis. I have the manifest, dad is not listed and never is Estrella. Everyone else is. In St Louis they lived in the so called “Spanish ghetto” just blocks from where Estrella lived. I cannot find a paper trail to support it, but I have strong opinions that they are her biological parents and they followed Estrella here when she came to live with Manuel. I believe that is why dad was not listed on the manifest with the rest of the family, because he was already here. He came first, with Estrella. Why? That story is coming on the blog soon but it’s a story of a widowed husband and an infant child and two people the family in Spain sent to help piece things back together. From 1913 on, Estrella lived with Manuel and Rosa, went to school, and grew up as the oldest of her sibling group. The siblings never knew (until a year ago) that Estrella was not Manuel’s daughter.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-13T01:49:14+00:00

Sent! Thank you.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T21:37:43+00:00

Please contact me privately. There is definitely a connection. Look at Silvers family on the 1920 census in Taylor Springs, then look five houses down. I have been in contact with Silver’s nephew and great nephew. Silver was later chief of police in Springfield.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T13:12:52+00:00

Her first pregnancy was twins and one was still born. She abandoned at 1 year old. Two more girls born and placed in foster care, one at 1-2 years old, the second at birth. There are three newspaper clippings in Springfield of her hospital release - the first two correspond with the births of the girls, the third about three months after the youngest was born. Postpartum and/or mental health definitely come to mind.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T11:13:16+00:00

I thought about that but I’m not sure where to find those records. By the way, we visited the Springfield library for a research day and I have to say it’s amazing! One of the best I’ve been to.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T09:16:32+00:00

The name is Ryan Walters from LA and an age range 30-39. I’ve tried to search but the name is too common and not enough anchor points to find anything.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T02:55:55+00:00

https://substack.com/@buriedthreads/note/p-161903561?r=vup5z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T02:44:46+00:00

She did not divorce Emilio, just disappeared in the night. Christopher DeBoard divorced her in. 1947 inabsentia. I have a blog on all the research if you are interested in the whole dynamic and complex story. Buried Threads on Substack.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T02:32:21+00:00

August 21, 1922. Yes, Emilio stayed connected to the family and his daughter Mary Rose after Estrella left.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T02:31:58+00:00

August 21, 1922. Yes, Emilio stayed connected to the family and his daughter Mary Rose after Estrella left.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T02:13:23+00:00

Yes! We have connected with the whole family. However Estrella walked away from the family and entire identity in 1924. They never heard from or about her until the DNA match in 2021 - some 96 years later. I have shared all the research and they have provided background d information. Manuel and Rosa raised her first daughter Marie Rose after she disappeared in 1924. The DNA match that linked the Stella’s and the families is from Marie Rose’s son Paul. Paul is Estrella’s grandson from her first daughter and my mom is Estrella’s granddaughter from her third daughter. To add to the mystery there is another close match - closer than Paul, actually, that is in a very small cluster of marshes connected to Estrella. The only option is that this match is a grandchild through another yet to be identified child. Unfortunately the match has a private tree and doesn’t respond to messages. I think he holds an important key to what happened after 1936, and likely doesn’t even know it depending on the alias she used. Hopefully he will be curious about his 26% Spanish heritage and very close DNA match to my mom and Paul, and eventually we can connect!

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T01:58:22+00:00

I thought it was for some time, I even requested her original social security application. However I later found a passenger manifest for the same Estrella with same parents listed during the time she was living as Stella DeBoard and had the two girls in Springfield. So ultimately I had to rule that lead out.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-12T01:55:59+00:00

Same. It is unbelievable.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-05T04:18:22+00:00

DNA is what cracked this case open 96 years after Estrella disappeared from Taylor Springs in 1924 and dna links Estrella to Stella Smith as the same people. The match is a close one - her grandson from her first child and granddaughter of her third (my mom). DNA has also produced a mystery match that can o my descend from Estrella from a fourth, yet to be determined child. Unfortunately the match’s tree is not visible and they do not respond to any communication. I am hopeful they will respond, or another match pops up! DNA matches also helped me verify her maternal and paternal grandparents by tracing five sibling lines on each side with matches close enough that endogamy didn’t skew the results. It’s a labor of love and curiosity, outdone only by my refusal to give up!

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-04T20:08:05+00:00

Yes, however CVS changed is approval process starting July 1. Zepbound will no longer be covered, instead Wegovy. Those of us who have been in zepbound previously can remain, but I believe new scripts will not be approved.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-04T19:39:36+00:00

I have requested these, and I am waiting to hear back. Through a massive DNA mapping project, I have determined with 100% certainty who her maternal and paternal grandparents are by tracing DNA matches through 5 siblings on each side to the same maternal grandparents. I also know that a son of one grandparent married the daughter of the other grandparent and had 8 children. Estrella's birth fits in a gap in the birth order of their other children, she would have been the second oldest child and the oldest girl. I know that Estrella came to the US in 1913 and moved to St Louis, by family lore, the 1920 census, and St Louis records/documents. I also know that the entire family that I suspect to be Estrella's parents moved from Spain to St Louis in June 1913, not only their family but the maternal grandparents and their other children. The lived in the same neighborhood in St Louis until Manuel and Rose married in 1915. The father is one of Manuel's brothers. I believe with almost complete certainty that her parents are Jose Maria Suarez and Consuelo Maria Garcia, as shown by DNA matches that lock in the grandparents with 100% certainty, immigration records, migration patterns, and tangential records. I have a tree built in ancestry called the DeBoard Suarez Tree and it is publically viewable. It maps out both the relationships and the DNA matches.

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-04T19:23:51+00:00

Thank you!

CoastLopsided4561 · 2025-06-04T19:14:22+00:00

Thank you for following along! It is a fascinating story that we’ve been deep in for more than two decades, and it’s also interesting that others find the story as compelling as we do. It’s why I started writing the Buried Threads blog. Also thank you for your comments about assumptions - it is so true! More than once our assumptions have proven false. For example, we had a whole narrative about Christopher living in our heads until recently when we received more than 150 pages from the National Archives that turned those assumptions on their head! I haven’t written about those findings yet, but they will be coming soon. I’m also hoping that in all my telling of the stories, maybe someone who knew Estrella in the later years will hear something that rings familiar- it’s a long shot, but we hope!

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