tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078324787471983933.post3650543577208373581..comments2024-02-16T19:50:32.317-05:00Comments on Lynda Grace An Hour Away: A-Z April Challenge I is for L' Italia è bella"lyndagracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530605081989558341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078324787471983933.post-66906708286671866682013-04-12T18:11:14.059-04:002013-04-12T18:11:14.059-04:00I think it happens so often that when we are old e...I think it happens so often that when we are old enough to be interested, the people who can answer the nitty, gritty questions are gone. I know quite a bit about my father's parents, having had a very close relationship with them. Much less about my mother's parents, and almost nothing from generations before my grandparents. That's why ancestry.com has become such an addiction for me. Though I do have to say that finding new things out (and I've recently had some pretty major breakthroughs on my dad's lines where I had dead ended a while ago) is sometimes bittersweet because every time I get new information, it makes all the information I know I'll never have that much more specific--so I miss it more. If that makes any sense.Masked Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08197019009052401812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078324787471983933.post-17929155033044573572013-04-10T12:26:50.483-04:002013-04-10T12:26:50.483-04:00If your great grandfather came to the US, he had t...If your great grandfather came to the US, he had to have gone through immigration somewhere. Unless he changed his name (which is extremely likely if he didn't want to be found), you should be able to find his name on census information. <br /><br />It's also quite possible that your grandmother did know what happened to him and never talked about it for whatever her personal reasons. There were just some things that were never discussed. For example, everyone in my grandmother's and grandfather's family knew that my grandfather had a child from his first marriage...everyone except my mother and me, including cousins that were younger than my mother. <br /><br />::sigh::Renee Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12513788818111774118noreply@blogger.com