re: #130 HappyWarrior

Yeah we always assumed my grandmother was fully Irish too since she identified with it so much. Hell, she’s why I got interested in my Irish heritage and why I was so happy to be able to study there and in the part of the country where her dad’s folks came from.Another shocker I found was looking at my paternal grandfather’s census records and seeing that they used a different name than the name that was my mom’s maiden name. I really would love to find out more. What I’m really interested in is finding out about their stories but I think sadly that much of that is lost to history and time.

Yeah. I lost both my grandfathers very early - one to pancreatic cancer, one to emphysema - and never got a chance to know them or to extract the history from them. Especially my paternal grandfather, we know nothing further back than his dad. Apparently, he and his dad weren’t exactly on the best of terms, and all that history is now lost. I may have to saddle up and spend some money on some ancestry sites if I’m serious about recovering that history. My mom’s side of the family, thankfully, kept impeccable records all the way back to Scotland.