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I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: -americanjoe- Date: May 4, 2020, 4:20 pm
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On the left is Walter S., pictured in 1908 in Big Spring, Texas
On the right is me, pictured in 1987 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Do you think I favor him in any way?
In what ways?
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: -americanjoe- Date: May 4, 2020, 10:46 pm
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: Ducky Date: May 5, 2020, 12:30 am
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[quote author=-americanjoe- link=topic=288.msg2862#msg2862
date=1588627257]
On the left is Walter S., pictured in 1908 in Big Spring, Texas
On the right is me, pictured in 1987 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Do you think I favor him in any way?
In what ways?
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Was he a cowboy? My father was called Walter.
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: Bashtard Date: May 5, 2020, 1:43 am
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No noticeable trouser bulge on either. Small c0cks must be a
family trait. ;D
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: -americanjoe- Date: May 5, 2020, 2:58 am
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Duck:
Was he a cowboy?
My family was from a town outside Atlanta and had a big farm but
had to move as the house was burned and the slaves ran off
(Encyclopedia say 3 but my grandmother told me 7) in the war so
they moved to west Texas in 1868.
So, yes, my grandfather and his brothers were all cowboys as
they had a ranch there outside Big Spring.
My grandmother Will Mae gave me all the family history, and it
is verified in the Encyclopedia of Texas, which was published in
the 1920s and has an article about my great-great-grandfather.
His brother was KIB reportedly at the battle of Shiloh.
In the center of this picture is my grandfather, John W. and his
two brothers, Seymour on the left and Samuel on the right. I
don't know what Seymour did for a living but Samuel had worked
as a deputy which explains the pistol he's wearing. This
photograph was taken in 1921 or 1922 while my grandfather was
working on the ranch near Big Spring, Texas. When I remember him
from when I was a little boy, I honestly believed that he was
one of the last Real Cowboys.
I even know the name of the horse in the picture.
My grandmother told me they called him "White man."
It was a different time.
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: Ducky Date: May 5, 2020, 5:17 am
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Interesting stuff as my knowledge of US history is minimal - it
wasn't taught at all at my boarding school.
My father's two sisters ended up in Chile and Mexico
respectively after fleeing from the Nazis. I know much of my
father's family history as that was reasonably well documented.
Sadly, I know nothing about my mother's side other than she was
born in Kosice (then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) to a Czech
father and Hungarian mother. They emigrated (fled?) to France
and adopted French citizenship, though her mother always kept
her Hungarian nationality. Sadly, whereas German records were
kept, those of Hungarians and Czechs weren't.
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: -americanjoe- Date: May 5, 2020, 11:54 am
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Fled the Nazis?
Why did your family do that?
Not trying to be a smart ass, but was it because you are Jewish?
I would think that would set a family back for quite awhile.
My grandmother said our family were substantial landowners in
georgia, but after the war the property pretty much lost most of
its value, so they had to move and start up again.
Was it like that with your family as well?
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: Bashtard Date: May 5, 2020, 2:00 pm
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Sounds like Ducky's family left before mandatory internment and
the war. Lucky escape.
Joe's family probably saw out the war. The great grandmother's
probably had to fight off Union soldiers who came in the night
to rape them in much the same way that the occupied German
population in 44-45 were systematically raped by the Red army.
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: Ducky Date: May 6, 2020, 12:47 am
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[quote author=-americanjoe- link=topic=288.msg2869#msg2869
date=1588697656]
Fled the Nazis?
Why did your family do that?
Not trying to be a smart ass, but was it because you are Jewish?
I would think that would set a family back for quite awhile.
My grandmother said our family were substantial landowners in
georgia, but after the war the property pretty much lost most of
its value, so they had to move and start up again.
Was it like that with your family as well?
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Indeed both sides of my family were Jewish. My paternal
grandfather was a judge in what was then Breslau in Silesia (now
Wroclaw in Poland). What really happened to him has never been
explained to me, other than he died in Chile having been knocked
down by a drunk driver when crossing the road. He had lost the
sight in one of his eyes - the result of having had a tumour
removed from his skull - and he failed to look that way when
crossing the street. I never knew him.
My father and his two sisters were advised to get out Germany
before they were carted off by the Nazis (many of his relatives
couldn't do so and ended their days at Auschwitz and elsewhere).
He travelled by train to Hamburg and thence to Southampton and
London, lodging with family friends. He later joined the Red
Berets (having being instructed by the British Army to change
his name - for obvious reasons - from Gruenbaum to Greenwood),
parachuted, ironically, behind German enemy lines and was
present at the liberation of one of the concentration camps (not
sure which one as he never spoke about it). He also acted as a
junior interpreter at Nuremberg.
He started his own electronics business in the UK - Greenwood
Electronics - from nothing and became a self-made millionaire.
But tragically my mother died in 1979 aged just 50 from lung
cancer and after that his heart was broken. He did remarry but
only survived until 1983 when he also succumbed to lung cancer
which they say is the disease of the heartbroken.
My mother's side isn't nearly so well documented - or, if it is,
it will be forever shrouded in mystery.
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Re: I think I look like my grandfather's brother
By: -americanjoe- Date: May 6, 2020, 3:37 am
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Interesting lives they all lived.
I think we are lesser people than our ancestors.
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