WOW!!!!!!!!!! This is getting really interesting!! Just like an old mystery movie! You know I really know how you feel. How do you tell someone who ask questions like that??? You must have felt really "on the spot." It made me feel like a creep telling family, our war hero Grandfather was not what he seemed to be,(that's putting it very mildly.) when he fought in so many wars & had so many metals. I sometimes think war really warps them. Where in Germany did your Grandfather come from? My father-in-law was under Hitler. He had to escape to the Alps. It's just like the movie, Sound of Music. (I am going to research his family next, when I get mine figured out?) We are going there next month. Thanks again for all your kind support! Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <gkilgore@primenet.com> To: <KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [KILGORE] This is not what I expected > Carolyn, > > You almost have to be a detective or snoop to find anything. If you are > satisfied with just dates that is ok, but to really get the feel of your > ancestors whether good or bad, you have to dig and uncover. > > My grandmother's nephew in Germany wrote to me and asked me where his Uncle > was and where did he go. Now how do you answer a person that you have never > met and tell him that family rumor was that he and my mean old 5'7 > grandfather got into a fight with him and no one ever heard from him again. > It left questions like, did my grandfather kill his brother-in-law, maybe my > grandmother's brother was sent over here to bring her back to Germany as she > was miserable here without her family and that may have started the fight... > but it sure seems strange that my grandmother never heard from her brother > again. I have even asked my sister if we should ask the police dept. if any > bones had ever been found on my grandfather's property that he farmed or if > there were any bodies that were never identified found in the river or > something. I mean this is gruesome thoughts but what happened to him? Some > say that he may have tried to go back to Germany and the ship sank...can't > find any records of sunken ships or ships that were sunk from here to > Germany during WWI. so, since I have found nothing and nothing has been > confirmed except he never returned to Germany, I keep a pleasant thought > that he moved to IA and got connections in the Ostfriesen settlements there, > married and had his own family...BUT, why did he never contact his parents > again??? Always that question....and then when you go back into the 1600 > and 1700's remember that a lot of criminals were sent here to the Colonies > so bad things lurk in all lines. > > Gail > > > ==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== > "How can a tangled web that appears so open be > so impregnable when we try to pierce it as when > we delve into genealogy!" -Jerry A. Penley- > >