[SAMWolf]

Thank you andysandmikesmom for sharing your some of your family's background with us. I always find it fascinating how many Freepers have stories to tell that relate to events in the Country's past.

[andysandmikesmom]

You are welcome...I always enjoy sharing my family stories...I know lots and lots of stories, especially from my dads side...My dads mother was one of 12 children, that survived into adulthood..much of his family has been here since the early 1800s....and they were all great talkers...

I remember as a kid, going back east to visit relatives, and we would all sit on the front porch, or out back by the towns cemetary, and they would just talk and talk...I guess as a kid, I sometimes just rolled my eyes at all the 'old' talk, but thankfully for me, I remembered much of it....and my dad was quite a talker, so often on long vacation trips, in the car, dad would tell us the old tales over and over again....thank goodness for that...

I have continued the tradtion...my son Andy just sometimes would roll his eyes, at the old stories, and say, "Ma, I have heard this one, time and time again"...I would just tell him, good, the more you hear the stories, the easier it will be to remember them....

Now that he is 28yrs old, and taking an active interest in his family history, he is really glad that I do know as much as I do about our family....