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what do you know about your family history?
Topic Started: Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:26 pm (1,143 Views)
MeliKoritsi
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Never saw this thread before! Neat stories!

Mother's side:

My grandmother's birth mom was a young teen that got pregnant by a married man back during the depression. She had a friend that worked at a rooming house in the "big city" (St. Paul) so she moved there so the folks in her hometown didn't know about the "trouble" she had. While there she met one of the other workers (my great-grandmother) and went to live with them while she was pregnant. My great-grandmother delivered the baby, and since the birth mother didn't want her, they decided that since my great-grandmother had recently had a stillborn baby , she would take the new baby and pretend it was hers. Not many people fell for it, but no one reported it either. My grantmother was never legally adopted, and rarely went to see a doctor because my great-grandmother was so afraid someone would take her away, she only met her birth mother once (at about age 10), when she came back to town to "see" her. My great-grandma was so scared that she sent my grandma on a train that day to a family farm in Iowa for a month. My grandmother worked in the newsroom for the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper during the war.

My grandfather was a first generation child to Greek immigrants, he grew up in St. Paul also. My Great-grandfather was a bootlegger and ran a "cafe" in downtown St. Paul. My grandfather was in charge of bringing bribe money to the chief of police's house, but one year they didn't have enough and had to live in hiding for a while. My great-grandfather died in a car accident while on a trip with his pregnant mistress and they had to sneak him into the Catholic cemetary at night because they didn't want him there. My grandfather joined the Navy after marrying my grandmother, he sailed around the world.

Both maternal grandparents are still alive, and love sharing their history! I'm going to make a second post for my dad's side because that's going to be pretty wordy too!
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MeliKoritsi
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Father's side:

Grandfather: I don't know much about my great grandparents, beyond their names. I think they did fairly well financially, from the handful of pictures and momentos that I have. My grandfather grew up in Minneapolis went to the U of M and got a degree in chemical engineering, he wasn't allowed in the military for health reasons, but went to work for General Mills and helped patent some new rations for the military. I'm not sure where he and my grandmother met, but after he finished working at General Mills he went into business with his brother and they founded Nordic Ware and invented the Bundt pan, for which my great-uncle gets most of the credit. My grandfather split off and formed his own successful company (selling baking/kitchen supplies to homemakers and baking professionals and later homegoods and toys).

Grandmother: I really don't know much about her parents either. I know her mother died at a young age and her father remarried. My grandmother grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. Her father had a business making and selling blackout curtains during the war. Eventually my grandmother moved down to the Twin Cities and met/married my Grandfather. She ran her own cake decorating magazine (Mailbox News, now American Cake Decorating.com ) and also taught cake decorating classes.

Both grandparents moved in with us and we took care of them until they passed away.
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My father's parents both died young so i never knew them. I can trace a direct male line back 5 or 6 generations to a little Danish island. On my mother's side, it's possible that I have an ancestor who was an officer at the Battle of Trafalgar, and another who founded a town in Vermont.
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MeliKoritsi
Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:57 am
Never saw this thread before! Neat stories!

Mother's side:

My grandmother's birth mom was a young teen that got pregnant by a married man back during the depression. She had a friend that worked at a rooming house in the "big city" (St. Paul) so she moved there so the folks in her hometown didn't know about the "trouble" she had. While there she met one of the other workers (my great-grandmother) and went to live with them while she was pregnant. My great-grandmother delivered the baby, and since the birth mother didn't want her, they decided that since my great-grandmother had recently had a stillborn baby , she would take the new baby and pretend it was hers. Not many people fell for it, but no one reported it either. My grantmother was never legally adopted, and rarely went to see a doctor because my great-grandmother was so afraid someone would take her away, she only met her birth mother once (at about age 10), when she came back to town to "see" her. My great-grandma was so scared that she sent my grandma on a train that day to a family farm in Iowa for a month. My grandmother worked in the newsroom for the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper during the war.

My grandfather was a first generation child to Greek immigrants, he grew up in St. Paul also. My Great-grandfather was a bootlegger and ran a "cafe" in downtown St. Paul. My grandfather was in charge of bringing bribe money to the chief of police's house, but one year they didn't have enough and had to live in hiding for a while. My great-grandfather died in a car accident while on a trip with his pregnant mistress and they had to sneak him into the Catholic cemetary at night because they didn't want him there. My grandfather joined the Navy after marrying my grandmother, he sailed around the world.

Both maternal grandparents are still alive, and love sharing their history! I'm going to make a second post for my dad's side because that's going to be pretty wordy too!
that is so sad that they lived in fear like that. I wonder why she didn't just legally adopt her?
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Because the mother up and left without signing anything. The way the system worked back then, I think there was just too much fear that the baby would have been taken away instead of being left with my greatgrandmother, who was fairly poor but a generally good person.
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Dad's side: Barons and Lords in England. Great-great Grandfather was a magistrate sent to India. His sons had enough of royalty moved to Canada and farmed. Grandfather became a Forest Ranger, met my grandmother, also a forest ranger, daughter of a Judge in Alberta. Both stationed in the Canadian Rockies and had 4 children. My father joined the RCMP and moved to British Columbia and had my sister and I.

My mothers side, she was half Cherokee and half Scot. Family was from New England. Met my father while he was touring with the RCMP Musical Ride, married him and moved to Canada.
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Sherlock... I mean... KHANNNNNNN

So cool that your Dad was part of the RCMP musical ride - he must have been a great Horse rider! Not seen them live but have seen videos of the musical ride & it takes skill - kinda like our Royal Cavalry musical ride, who I'll be watching next weekend. :)
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My family history is from the Deep south of the United States. My Dad was a grandson of a country preacher and sharecropper im Mississippi during the 1930s durning the great depression. My mother was born in Georgia in the 1940's.

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Lus
Sun Oct 2, 2011 7:57 am
So cool that your Dad was part of the RCMP musical ride - he must have been a great Horse rider! Not seen them live but have seen videos of the musical ride & it takes skill - kinda like our Royal Cavalry musical ride, who I'll be watching next weekend. :)
Royal Calvary, cool. Never heard of them. Is that British?

My father was actually on the ride when they took the picture for the 50 dollar bill. I'll see if I can find a picture of it.
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He is in the 7oclock position to the right of the horse with the white hoof.
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no way! that is cool. Havn't seen one of those old bills in ages. do you have one?
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Cornishmonkey
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You colonials seem to know an awful lot about your families. Well done.
Something good will go here soon.
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Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:31 pm
My Dad's immediate family is from Cornwall England.
Groovy. Where abouts?
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Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:25 am
But some day I plan on making my way back to Ireland, rebuild the castle and take back over :p
I don't think the Irish would like that.
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wissaboo
Sun Oct 2, 2011 12:22 pm
no way! that is cool. Havn't seen one of those old bills in ages. do you have one?
yeah, I have one hidden away somewhere. Of course it would have been more economical if they had put him on a 2 dollar bill!
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Sun Oct 2, 2011 12:48 pm
You colonials seem to know an awful lot about your families. Well done.
Lack of ties to the landscape & shaky sense of cultural identity
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stigmata
Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:28 pm
Cornishmonkey
Sun Oct 2, 2011 12:48 pm
You colonials seem to know an awful lot about your families. Well done.
Lack of ties to the landscape & shaky sense of cultural identity
probably. :rachel:


or our families are just more interesting. Being descended from all those alpha risk takers. What do you say when asked? been here for 800 years. Came from over there. :liz:
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wissaboo
Sun Oct 2, 2011 4:04 pm
stigmata
Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:28 pm
Cornishmonkey
Sun Oct 2, 2011 12:48 pm
You colonials seem to know an awful lot about your families. Well done.
Lack of ties to the landscape & shaky sense of cultural identity
probably. :rachel:


or our families are just more interesting. Being descended from all those alpha risk takers. What do you say when asked? been here for 800 years. Came from over there. :liz:
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln
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wissaboo
Sun Oct 2, 2011 4:04 pm
stigmata
Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:28 pm
Cornishmonkey
Sun Oct 2, 2011 12:48 pm
You colonials seem to know an awful lot about your families. Well done.
Lack of ties to the landscape & shaky sense of cultural identity
probably. :rachel:


or our families are just more interesting. Being descended from all those alpha risk takers. What do you say when asked? been here for 800 years. Came from over there. :liz:
I am sure our families are equally as fascinating. The deep, rich and lengthy cultural history will see to that. There is definitely less of a need to feel tied to something though. Interesting.
Something good will go here soon.
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there is here. It's a big thing. always has been as long as I can remember
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