Recently while researching I have kept coming up people marrying into the Farhat family from Tibneen. Over the years I have found there has been a close bond between families from Derdghaya and Tibneen, Farhat, Rassey, Khoury and Rahall families just to name a few.
So I figured to make my life a little easier I'd start working on the Farhat family....I think I was kidding myself. I knew that they were a big family but figured how many different Farhats could be in Michigan where I was researching. Like the Khoury's in Derdghaya they are all cousins related through grandfathers and great grandfathers.
I started digging through birth and death records...then onto census records. The glory I had was that the Farhats I was looking at were all from Tibneen. I linked a few families but every time I thought I was getting there I'd run into a road block. I think two guys were brothers then realise they were cousins....onwards and upwards.
In the end I decided it was going to be too hard and have just left it for another time....
