gigamatic

so i got thinking about my genealogy and my current interest in it.

i'm a collector. gotta catch em all.

that, plus the need to be connected to a family ... that certainly makes me an optimal researcher on this project.

the drive is there. the collector mentality is there...

i found out my dad was named for my helper's grandfather. that means something to me. i found out my great grandfather was drinking one night and got killed by a train, leaving my grandfather and his siblings without a father, and their mother without a husband for 8 years. but then she remarried and moved the family to Washington, with her German/Russian son-in-law.

They moved back before 1930, and her second husband either died or was divorced. That's apparently when she moved in with my grandmother and grandfather. But not for long.

A mother in law is a mother in law in any generation, I guess. (Although mine might drive me crazy, I still like her.)