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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 581038, member: 59&quot;]I inherited my interest in family history from my maternal grandmother, who inherited the interest from her father. She had all kinds of family documents and family heirlooms and started passing some on to me when I married. I kept it all in a box until I finally joined Ancestry in 2010. I&#039;ve learned all kinds of things in the process of documenting the tree I set up, even solved a few &quot;mysteries&quot; like the true story of the death of a second great aunt&#039;s only child (had been told a story about her when I was young and curious about why the aunt had no children or grandchildren that turned out to be a fable.) But in that search I also learned that my 2X great grandfather on that side committed suicide in his late 40&#039;s - a terrible scandal at the time, but no one had ever mentioned it.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my Dad&#039;s side I finally learned why Dad was so vehemently opposed to gambling when I uncovered though a distant cousin the story of Dad&#039;s grandfather &quot;selling&quot; one of his daughters to pay off a gambling debt. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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