52 Ancestors 2024 Week 1: Family Lore
We're starting a new year with Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors challenge! I'm starting the new year with my second round of COVID, so I'm confined to quarters for the moment which seems like a good opportunity to ruminate on the ancestors. The first topic is Family Lore which is a little skimpy in our case, but not totally nonexistent. As I've said a number of times in these posts, my parents were extraordinarily tight-lipped about their families of origin. We were not estranged from them by any means: in fact, we were very close to my maternal grandmother (who didn't talk either) and my mother's siblings (who did talk a bit more), and we did visit with my paternal grandfather and my dad's two brothers, though there was far less contact with them. But little bits did get through every now and then, some of which have proven to be true and others which have not. I'll try to sort a few of them out. I'll start with my father's side. Dad ...