(August 25, 2018 at 11:30 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I'm sorry for your loss, GS. If the apples don't fall far from the tree, as I'm told, I'm sure she was a remarkable woman.
She was the first of our family born in America. My mother was the first born of the second generation and she had the first child of the third generation. (I was number two after my brother.)
The Irishness shone through the family. My mother went her entire life thinking her middle name (the one she used) was "Colleen". This was because Granny's first husband, Patrick, never called her anything else. After Mom's death we found her birth certificate and that showed her actual middle name as "Caroline".
(And I still get the genealogy confused, never was something I was interested enough in to study.)
