Fred Smith’s grandfather, Isaac Ghishan, third child from left standing at the bottom when he was five. He and his four brothers and two sisters and their family migrated from Transjordan after the second world war to Haiti. His father, Fred’s great grandfather, is sitting first left and his great great grandfather is the patriarch in the middle. They were Bedouins from Jordan, of the Hashemite clan and they settled in Madaba, near Amman in Jordan. Fred’s mother’s Bedouin clan are the only Catholic Bedouins who fought for the Holy Roman Empire.