Granfalloon

As mentioned in the last post, genealogical research often requires asking living relatives to provide historical narratives and fill gaps in ancestral data. However, doing so can be harder than it sounds. Some people don’t have any living relatives, and sometimes living relatives are not easy to contact. Even if the relatives are both living and easy to contact, they are not always easy to communicate with. I’m going to take a brief pause in my genealogical research so I can tell you about my mom. While this is a vehicle of sorts for the “real” genealogical story I’ve been constructing, I think more importantly my mom deserves her own post separate from everything else I’ve been doing here. This will serve as a way to prove my above-mentioned point, as well as a much-needed written account of some of the more personal aspects of my mom’s life that have, up until now, lived only inside her own head. The details below have all been told to me over the years by my mom. So here goes: My