Family Ancestry

[HappyWarrior]

We've traced my family to the 1500s, maybe a little earlier. One of the most interesting is my Great-Great-Grandfather who lived in St. Louis.  He stole from the mob because he was a bookie for them and then a black car took him from where he worked.  We think he's at the bottom of the Mississippi with cement shoes on.

The "official" story of my great uncle's death (same line)  is that he jumped out a window and shot himself while running across a yard after the woman's husband walked in on them.  His parents never made an issue of it.   

lol.  Is that even possible?

[Spaghetti Cat]

I know my maternal grandpap traced back his family the whole way to the 1700's, and some of his relatives are burried in a cemetary about three miles from my house (strangely, we burried my paternal grandma there a year and a half ago)
Interesting story, my maternal grandmother's grandma left Hungary at 15 to came to America as an indentured servant.  While over here, she met a well off French man who she didn't love but married.  They had a daughter (my great grandmother), but the wife was never happy.  So she asked her husband if she could go on a trip to Hungary with her daughter, he bought tickets for them, she sailed over, then cashed the return tickets in when she got there.  My great grandparents fled the country to America in 1939, when my great grandmother was pregnant with my Grandma.  My great great grandmother lived in Hungary for the rest of her life, rode a motorbike, and outlived my greatgrandparents, dying in the midnineties at the age of 103.

[J. J.]

We've traced my family to the 1500s, maybe a little earlier. One of the most interesting is my Great-Great-Grandfather who lived in St. Louis.  He stole from the mob because he was a bookie for them and then a black car took him from where he worked.  We think he's at the bottom of the Mississippi with cement shoes on.

The "official" story of my great uncle's death (same line)  is that he jumped out a window and shot himself while running across a yard after the woman's husband walked in on them.  His parents never made an issue of it.   

lol.  Is that even possible?

I never thought so.   

In the circumstances, I wouldn't be pressing it, however.

Uncle Eddie was basically written out of the family history.