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Alex Balunsat

Vonda White 		Antonio Balunsat
8/17/188-2/7/1971

Maria (Gadduang) Padilla
2/23/1896-1/30/1972 		Miguel (Don) Balunsat Fermina Danguilan Mauricio Balunsat Rosa Panganiban, Solano, Nueva Vicaya,phi

Church-Temple-Fortress San Miquel de Balansat
Justo Danguilan Juanita Ludan Vicente Danguilan Josefa Logan(Loggan?)

I think I may have found the origins of the Balunsat line. The family from Spain is Balansat, also spelled Balanzat. The French ancestors use the Ballanzat version. These families trace their origins to a town called Puerto San Miquel de Balansat, in the north coast of the Island of Ibiza of the Archipelago of the Balearic Island group (Spain). Now this is where it gets interesting. This Island was colonized by the Carthaginians and then by Greeks. In the 11th and 12th century the Catalans found a family of Balansat's living there.
According to family history, in the 14th century the Balansat family was visited by an apparition from the archangel Michael. They were instructed to build a church-temple/fortress, which was used to protect the island from the onslaught of Moorish invasions. The church-temple/fortress called San Miquel de Balansat still stands today and is a site for tourist attractions.

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