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21. My dad's family is part of the Diasopra, so I only know it a few generations back.

Tue Oct 2, 2012, 07:09 PM

Oct 2012

They lived in a Shtetl in Lithuiana, until one Pogram too many persuaded them to re-assess their geographic options. I searched for the records when I visited Ellis, but our name is pretty common and the info I have is murky. Like all the 20th century immigrants, my family just wanted to assimilate and bury their old country roots.

Mom's people are from Skipton, Yorkshire and they were Landed Gentry and well-heeled politicians. My Brit Great grandfather had a promising start as a Victorian merchant, owning an Apothocary shop and dispensing all sorts of tinctures and potions. But he started consuming too much of his own product--specifically opium--lost his business, standing, and wealth, and died in Debtor's Prison. My grandfather knew he either needed to immigrate or get stuck in the coal mines, so he ran away to Canada and made a nice living working for the railroad.

So as I like to say about my ancestory: It's Charles Dickens meets "Fiddler on the Roof".

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