Reply #17: To Get The History of My Father's Side Of The Family...

[CO Liberal]

...read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". My grandafther came here from Lithuania around 1912 and worked for Swift's Premium in Philadeplhia.

Later, they bought a farm outside Buena, NJ. As the only Lithuanians in an Italian town, the KKK burned a cross in front of their house.

My father and uncle both served in WWII - Dad in the Marines, Uncle Stanley in the Navy.

Everyone in my generation graduated from either college or tech school.

My mother's side has been here since the 1700s. Some of her ancestors were Hessian soldiers who fought for the British during the Revolution. The rest of her ancestors came over from Ireland and Scotland between 1860 and 1900.