KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
same

went rooting around on one of those sites and found all sorts of stuff

i'm fairly certain that these are my kin (pop's side)

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
Um, that's you in a dress.

 miamizsun wrote: 
Nice one.
I give up. Explain.

Since work got a little slow, I went on Ancestry.com to figure a couple of things out about my family.
And did I open up a can of worms.

My great, great grand father and his wife came from Austria to Minnesota back in 1896.

They and their family pretty much took over the town... a large family came soon after.

My great grandfather and great grandmother with their 2nd child. Their first died at 4 months old.
They ended up with 60+ grandchildren!


Another later family picture with nine of their 13 children. My grandfather wasn't born yet.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
That is a great photo.

And yours too, Meower

 meower wrote: 
 Thankfully the temperance gene does not actually get expressed very often in my family.  There are only two or three of them.  I'm pretty sure it's a recessive trait.   However you did not even think about bringing alcohol into my grandmother's house.  Even hinting that it might be being consumed elsewhere would get you an evil glare for the rest of your visit.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 

my great granddaddy was the fire chief in Newark for sometime.... they lived as Irish in the Itallian neighborhood..... my granddies were easy drinkers I think......

 meower wrote: 
 
  That is regrettably a pose you would never gotten from my grandmother or great grandmother (pictured on the following page).  From before I can remember until they passed away when I was in my mid and late 20s my great aunt lived with my grandparents.  Aunt Daisy continued to come and "babysit" for us well past the time when we actually needed one (or when one would do any good for that matter) for the sole purpose of allowing her to get away from her sister and have a beer once and awhile.  It has for some reason though reminded me of an old family photo of Mom, Grandma, and others all wearing Groucho glasses that I now have to look for.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 

I'd say late 20's early 30s? Dad was born in 28 and I think that he was alive when his grandparents took this trip.

 meower wrote: 
Any idea when?
 
 

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 

my great-granddad in the middle the irish looking guy (with his irish looking wife next to him) ...... in Italy.

Love it. 

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Do think it's gone now?

bump

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
Very cool.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
I guess you have all chromosomes covered!

 Alexandra wrote: 
Being the geek that I am I would probably like it.  It is often six or seven years after a movie has been out that I finally do get around to watching it.
 

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
 
Do you get Redbox movies or Netflix? It'll end up there eventually.
 
It's about the team of people in England that cracked Enigma.