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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 411901" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Susie, I LOVE that show!</p><p> </p><p>And Step, I think I'm finding out the same thing about one of my great grandfathers! And I'm finding out that a lot of the old family stories weren't true and that it may have been my mother who had it wrong! This GGgrandfather was my mom's father's father. He died two years before I was born so I never knew him but he has always just fascinated me. He was a very intelligent man, very kind and loving, and very handsome - tall and straight with a big handlebar mustache. I have a portrait of him hanging on my wall! We were always told that he had married twice - that he had had several children with the first wife, then when she died he remarried and had several more children, the second to the youngest was my grandfather. And I remember the three elderly great aunts who were my grandfathers (half?)sisters, supposedly from this first wife. But in checking the records there <em>was</em> no second wife! He immigrated from Germany when he was 14, married at 22, and was still married to this same woman when she died in her 70's! There are old census records that show that these three sisters did <u>not</u> live with the rest of the family! I can't find them anywhere! I can find them as adults under their married names but not as children! And they're not all older than the rest of the other siblings, their ages are intersperced with the others. And one record shows one of them with another woman listed as her mother, but there are so many people with the same names, I'm not even sure if it's the right one! Which all makes me wonder ... did he have a mistress while he was married? Was there another woman who was the mother of three of his children? But my grandfather and these three sisters were all very close, which would be strange if they weren't raised together, or if the sisters were from their fathers mistress. This one may stay a mystery because I can't find anything!</p><p> </p><p>And I'm finding out that I shouldn't put too much store in old family stories either! In her later years my mother always told me about making a trip to see my dad's grandmother when my older brother was an infant. She went in to great detail about her, even down to the color of her eyes! Never happened! My dad's grandmother died two years before my brother was born!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 411901, member: 1883"] Susie, I LOVE that show! And Step, I think I'm finding out the same thing about one of my great grandfathers! And I'm finding out that a lot of the old family stories weren't true and that it may have been my mother who had it wrong! This GGgrandfather was my mom's father's father. He died two years before I was born so I never knew him but he has always just fascinated me. He was a very intelligent man, very kind and loving, and very handsome - tall and straight with a big handlebar mustache. I have a portrait of him hanging on my wall! We were always told that he had married twice - that he had had several children with the first wife, then when she died he remarried and had several more children, the second to the youngest was my grandfather. And I remember the three elderly great aunts who were my grandfathers (half?)sisters, supposedly from this first wife. But in checking the records there [I]was[/I] no second wife! He immigrated from Germany when he was 14, married at 22, and was still married to this same woman when she died in her 70's! There are old census records that show that these three sisters did [U]not[/U] live with the rest of the family! I can't find them anywhere! I can find them as adults under their married names but not as children! And they're not all older than the rest of the other siblings, their ages are intersperced with the others. And one record shows one of them with another woman listed as her mother, but there are so many people with the same names, I'm not even sure if it's the right one! Which all makes me wonder ... did he have a mistress while he was married? Was there another woman who was the mother of three of his children? But my grandfather and these three sisters were all very close, which would be strange if they weren't raised together, or if the sisters were from their fathers mistress. This one may stay a mystery because I can't find anything! And I'm finding out that I shouldn't put too much store in old family stories either! In her later years my mother always told me about making a trip to see my dad's grandmother when my older brother was an infant. She went in to great detail about her, even down to the color of her eyes! Never happened! My dad's grandmother died two years before my brother was born! [/QUOTE]
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