Continuing the emotional roller coaster
Sep. 3rd, 2004 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33 Googling an obscure German town's name where my great-great-great grandmother was born led to a website loaded with family stories and pictures, including several of my grandma as a little girl that I'd never seen before. It was completely overwhelming, so many personality traits were intimately familiar to me yet I never knew any of the people they were attributed to.
It literally was a goldmine, the Gold Rush was the reason the family settled in California. The bizarre part was that the family's last name was stolen from a dead passenger who was buried at sea. His papers were in order & my Danish ancestor didn't have a passport & needed one, so he conveniently took and kept that identity.
Curiously, there is mention of my great-grandfather by name & two pictures on a page dedicated to him... and not a single word on it. It appears my theory that I come from multiple black sheep for generations on both lines is true.
I've emailled the website's author explaining who I am, and that there are only 5 descendants of my great-grandfather left & we'd love more information about him and the rest of family. Hopefully whatever he did to piss off the family won't be held against us.
It literally was a goldmine, the Gold Rush was the reason the family settled in California. The bizarre part was that the family's last name was stolen from a dead passenger who was buried at sea. His papers were in order & my Danish ancestor didn't have a passport & needed one, so he conveniently took and kept that identity.
Curiously, there is mention of my great-grandfather by name & two pictures on a page dedicated to him... and not a single word on it. It appears my theory that I come from multiple black sheep for generations on both lines is true.
I've emailled the website's author explaining who I am, and that there are only 5 descendants of my great-grandfather left & we'd love more information about him and the rest of family. Hopefully whatever he did to piss off the family won't be held against us.
