Strange Saturday...family contacted. (page 2)

Gopher

You have been entrusted with a great opportunity here. You'll get to catch up on family history. Maybe you could even create some kind of family tree website so that the information can be retrieved indefinitely.

Have some fun with it!

HAL9000

Hi Decki

The last I think I could ask is my mom. She may know if she has her wits about her that day. We will see.

Some family history: my wife is of German parents: he mother came here (apparently pregnant with her - why she left home at 21 ????), It is only the past 12 months that she found out that her "father" is not her biological father. Mysteries.

What was a bit of a revelation was a discussion that my wife had with her mother 18 months ago when she had some German language left - she was told a few things that she didn't know about her past, including the fact that her mother was thrown out of home (guess why?) & where the family really came from plus the fact that my wife has cousins etc etc etc. Appears my father-in-law was somewhat in the dark as well with what came out.

Pick your time with your mother, take it easy, because those memories can get really mixed up if too much pressure is on. Also be prepared to analyse & sort what she says. I tried the same wirth my father, but did not get much out of him as it was too late (dementia wise): your time is limited!

Hope you have luck!

h9k

Sparkplug

Oh hal.. I am am a little leary...My mom always told me my dad (I never met had a brother Grover) who was part black. VERY light skinned....

So today my Aunt in law?....she said this nameless photo might be a Grover. Now how many Grovers do you know? This is the third time today someone has asked "another Grover?" Damn that would suck to find out I was some sort of an imbreed. lol. But I am thinking I have too many mixed features for that. don't know.

All them secrets.

I wonder. Anyhow be it the witnesses, or be it the race thing...or be it a family secret, my mom disapeared off the map for most of my life while pregnant with me. I think she went back for a funeral. Anyhow, I heard when I did meet my aunt there was some crazy kind of half tale that included something about my dad being a doctor my mom ran off with...or a doc that knocked her up... Who knows. It was brief and short in passing...I would like to know what everyone was told and why?

HAL9000

I would like to know what everyone was told and why

The lack of knowledge will probably drive my wife back to Germany to find out the truth - she knows that she has family there now and that her mother did visit them in the past 10 years or so. Never told Mrs HAL though.

The lies are another problem - what her mother told her a year or so ago fits much better than what she told my wife as she was growing up. Funny how dementia causes some contro, to go - but my m-i-l was behaving like it was Germany, 1955,,,,,,,

Going off line now - time to pick up Mrs H from the Kingdoom Hall.

Back tomorrow!

h9k

Sparkplug

OK, I am so excited and had to share...I just got this...

Hi there. How nice to hear from you this morning. Ok, what have we here. You were going to give me any and all information you have on
your dad so I can check it out. By the way, I got on the internet to see if you had moved or what and got some more information
about all your old addresses. Guess you have moved like we have.

About XXXX(SIS number one in the borg), would she like to get Christmas cards from us. (LMAO) If so, why not give us her address. Also do you have the addresses of
your mother's cousins--xxx xxx Pxxx, xxxx Mxxxx plus their dad who lives with xxxx and xxxxx Miller who lives in
Florida. xxx xxx is xxxx sister living in Hawaii. Let me know as I have their addresses.

Speaking of pictures, one time when Dewey and Marjorie Miller came out to see us in Cheyenne, Wyoming, we took a drive over to
Nebraska to see some cousins (I do not know from which side of the family they were) and they gave me a picture of Dewey as a baby.
We framed it in an old clock frame after we took out the clock guts. I will get it out and make you a copy. Do you have many family
pictures of you and your brothers and sisters. I can check out to see what I have. I know there is a picture of xxxx (our son) and
xxx in their underwear jumping on Grandpa and Grandma Miller's bed.

How is xxxx doing. I do not think I have all the information about you and the others so would you mind jotting all the dates,
etc. and send it to me via e-mail.

The xxx family came from a little town in Michigan name of xxxxx. This year they had a 150 ceremony honoring the servicemen
and women. My brother, his wife, their son and daughter-in-law went to it and met our cousin, his wife and their daughter and
son-in-law. Afterwards the cousin;s daughter had them all over for lunch in xxxxxxx. Sounds like a nice time was had by all.

If your mom knows where xxx and xxxx were married, please let me know. Her maiden name was xxx and Dewey had it as
his middle name. My memory serves me corectly they met while he was on a cattle drive.

Keep in touch. xxxxx

With add... I can't even read all this without getting confused. My family sounds so normal and well spread. Never heard of about 95 percent of these people. Strange thing is my 1st husbands family is in Wyoming. I lived there for a while in Cheyenne. My son was born just an hour or so from there.. WOW. I did not even know them at that time. I wonder if we were there the same time? This is all so strange! I cut out the names, but there are some doozies in my family tree. Very wild names. Anyone heard of Alzina? Pizley Mominee or Harbottle. I figured mixed up they cant do much harm. We aren't talking all last names either.

I read this to my kids and they laughed so hard. They said they have never heard such shite old people's names. Tis funny!

Sparkplug

Oh and Hal..."Funny how dementia causes some contro, to go - but my m-i-l was behaving like it was Germany, 1955,,,,,,," Yeah the stories get mixed. It is odd how it all works, or not works....

TTL

Dex

hemp lover

Oh. My God! Dewey and Marjorie Miller are my great-aunt and uncle!

And Alzina um Pimbottle is my ...... sister. Yeah.

(Just thought it might be fun to be related to you for a second there. Sorry.)

Mum

This is great, Sparkplug! It is strange how things work out, isn't it? You now hold a certain place of honor in the family as the one who is the keeper of the family history and the one who has descendants to keep it going. It would be a very good idea to find out about your relatives and do a nice summary of the lives of those you can learn about so your children can pass on the information about them. My friend's daughter actually wrote a book about their family with lots of photos and gave a copy to each living member of the family.

Regards,

SandraC

tim hooper

Sparklet,

Like Mum says, it looks like you've taken on the mantle of family geneologist/archivist. That's a hell of a responsibiltiy, so make it your own and enjoy it!

tim

Sparkplug

Oh. My God! Dewey and Marjorie Miller are my great-aunt and uncle!
And Alzina um Pimbottle is my ...... sister. Yeah.

Oh sexy Lannie! I about passed out when I read this. I was a bit tittled, so it took a moment, then I panicked and I thought, "Oh, No!" Then I got the joke. Whew..

(Just thought it might be fun to be related to you for a second there. Sorry.)

Your my heart girl, your my heart.

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