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[quote=Anonymous]My father's mother came from an almost noble family, traced back to 1600.
Her family includes a relative that was on a British ship fighting Americans in Baltimore.
Her family has a distant nobleman that moved around.
She was the grand daughter of a school principal. That was quite something back in the day.
My father's farther was from a peasant family, but they were able to get him educated to a university level at the turn of the century.
The interesting thing about the family tree is that grandma's family was all educated and everyone's life span much longer than grandpa's. With the war being an exception. This took me by surprise.

My mother's farther was an engineer, a 2nd son of land owning farmers. He could not inherit the farm as it could no longer be split and support the family. He got himself a degree in engineering at a time when that was a very interesting field to get into.
My mom's mother also had a degree in business. They met on campus. She was an only child of a slightly unhappy marriage. Parents were traders so they had the means to educate her.

Both sides of the family have interesting stories[/quote]

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