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52541 Re: Einstein's Masterwork
   That is really cool De! So yer Wife is descended from an Historic f... 		micro   6TH POPE   19 Apr 2024
 6:37 PM
52535 Re: Einstein's Masterwork
   [color=blue][b]Charlemagne, eh? Nice! My descendants include the M... 		Beldin   6TH POPE   19 Apr 2024
 5:35 PM

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Re: Einstein's Masterwork

By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 19 Apr 24 2:49 PM
Msg. 52528 of 53252
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Re: “Speaking of relatives, my daughter in Virginia Beach has taken an interest in the family heritage and traced my ancestry back into the 1600's over in Poland.”That's impressive! My wife calls Poland "the silly putty of nations" - because its borders have changed so many times. For the same reason, there aren't many family records to be found. Everything's been destroyed or looted over and over.

As for the family name being misspelled, you can blame the folks at Ellis Island. Folks coming here often didn't speak English, so an Immigration employee would take their own guess at the English spelling of whatever they said their name was. Also, there didn't used to be any enforcement of how last names were spelled. In my Mom's family, the boys all spelled the last name different than the girls did. They probably thought that "ack" sounded more American than "ak" by itself did. The girls didn't go to the bother of changing it... knowing that they wouldn't be keeping it.

Things like this make genealogy a challenge. We've come across some really interesting things. A pastor left his house during a blizzard and froze to death. A drunk went into a field and burned to death. One relative had a heart attack because her clothes caught fire while she was loading a wood stove. There's a guy named "Silence." One woman named Temperance, and two named "Experience." LOL.

My wife's favorite combination of horrible names is "Araminta Theodosia." Nobody before her had either name, so we'd like to know what her parents were smoking when they came up with it.

One of my wife's relatives owned half of Sitka. He moved buildings from Douglas, piece by piece. She figures that's where she gets her love of jigsaw puzzles. And, like half of Europe, she's descended from Charlemagne.