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April 22, 2005
Family Tradition
My mom says that one of her nephews has some research on my grandmother's family that's she trying to get for me. I'm particularly interested because I don't know much about that branch of the family....except a finer collection of outlaws & reprobates you'd never meet.
Supposedly, this branch of the family originated in Germany....and were so mean & lawless that they were given a coat of arms in exchange for their promise to behave themselves. Didn't work too well and eventually they were run out of Germany, immigrating to the US. Or that's Mom's story anyway. Now Mom has a tendency to get things all mixed up, so all or part of it may or may not be true. But it fits pretty well, all things considered. At least the mean & lawless part. Heh.
So I guess all my cousins who are in prison or dead from their illicit activities are just carrying on the family tradition.
What I'm really curious about is how this family ended up married into my grandpa's predominately Lutheran minister straitlaced family. Someone decided to take a walk on the wild side, I suspect.
Like a son of a preacher man.
Posted by Rita at April 22, 2005 08:52 AM