Thread:Nisha101/@comment-44712576-20200114064918/@comment-32823535-20200114072140

Some of us try to do silly things to our names when we send passes. I haven't been doing it much lately.

The family tree - my father's side is mostly English, I have great great grandparents from Norfolk, England, Kingston-Upon-Hull, and even Welsh miners. And others that go way back to the Mayflower and other early (1600s) settlers to Massachusetts. One family tradition says that we go back to Lady Godiva, but I've never seen it.

On my mother's side, her mother is Hungarian from the Transylvania region. Her father is another story... I've found some very interesting things about that side of the family. One side of the family is Hungarian, going back to a line of ministers. The other side we aren't quite sure. My great grandfather was born in South Africa, a German region, to a German Jewish mother, but I cannot figure out if his father was German or English, Christian or Jewish. They eventually moved to Moscow, with British citizenship, and set up an import business. They had their children baptized in the Church of England in the Moscow church. It wasn't popular to be Jewish or German in Russia in the late 1800s. Their business started having major problems because although the merchandise was imported from England, some Russians figured out that components had been produced in Germany. Or so the family tradition says.

My grandfather, with is mother and sister, returned to his family in Hungary when his father disappeared (not sure if something happened to him or if he "ran away"). The family decided to send my grandfather to America to further is education, and bought him a ticket for the Titanic. He decided to visit some places in the Mediterranean before going to England, and the Turkish freighter he was on broke down, so he missed the sailing of the Titanic. He left shortly after, and went back to the docks in New York to watch the Carpathian arrive, the ship that picked up the survivors.