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I've always been fascinated by history and was the kid that would never stop with questions...
When I was 10 we did a family trip and visited all the relatives on Mom's side... some 3 times removed but most in the same area... we were the only ones far away as Mom took a job in California.
I would ask how people met and what is was like living without electricity, phone and being a day away from a city of any size...
Caught on fast when I would meet people and they asked where I was from... learned all I needed to say my Mom was born at such and such a farm...
Still try to keep in touch with the cousins and even though I'm the farthest away and never lived their I seem to know better than any of them the family history/connections... probably because they grew up with it and said everyone is related if you go back far enough... farm families with lots of kids going back to the 1700's
My biggest regret was not going home with my Grandfather... I was 12 and he was 73... he wanted to take me and I really wanted to go... his family was much smaller and all in Germany... Grandmother and my parents said there will be lots of time later and he was gone in less than a year... he would tell me stories of what it was like and his parents and grandparents... the plan was to visit all the places of his childhood.
Oddly, I'm the only one in the family that seems to find this interesting...
I have taken my niece to a few places when she was about 10... showed her where Grandpa lived and went to school, things like that but now at 15 life is school and year round sports as she is involved in Junior Olympics...
Quite a story about aviation and your aunt... and well documented.
When I was 10 we did a family trip and visited all the relatives on Mom's side... some 3 times removed but most in the same area... we were the only ones far away as Mom took a job in California.
I would ask how people met and what is was like living without electricity, phone and being a day away from a city of any size...
Caught on fast when I would meet people and they asked where I was from... learned all I needed to say my Mom was born at such and such a farm...
Still try to keep in touch with the cousins and even though I'm the farthest away and never lived their I seem to know better than any of them the family history/connections... probably because they grew up with it and said everyone is related if you go back far enough... farm families with lots of kids going back to the 1700's
My biggest regret was not going home with my Grandfather... I was 12 and he was 73... he wanted to take me and I really wanted to go... his family was much smaller and all in Germany... Grandmother and my parents said there will be lots of time later and he was gone in less than a year... he would tell me stories of what it was like and his parents and grandparents... the plan was to visit all the places of his childhood.
Oddly, I'm the only one in the family that seems to find this interesting...
I have taken my niece to a few places when she was about 10... showed her where Grandpa lived and went to school, things like that but now at 15 life is school and year round sports as she is involved in Junior Olympics...
Quite a story about aviation and your aunt... and well documented.
