My great grandfather was born in 1853 and did not marry until 1889. He did not father my grandfather until 1909 (when he would have been in his middle fifties) and he lived until 1941 (run over by a car of all things). Therefore, as a kid, I got to hear a story or two from my grandfather about a man who was born some years before Canada became it’s own independent country in 1867.
That’s incredible. And what an unfair way to die at that age. I am sorry.
I can’t imagine hearing stories going further back than the 1930s. I knew one grandmother who died when I was 10. The rest were already deceased.
I have some family and Sicily but though I know them I never really pursued the ancestry.
yours is a fascinating story. To know if family members who were not only alive but were adults when world war I started is incredible.
I have a picture of my pop and Grandpa and Great grandpa. Dad had me late at 48. I am 52.
could tell someone a few things about my grandfather and nothing about my great grandfather