I think you don't really appreciate what good managers people were then. Money went further and inflation had not set in. Irene > From: kathym@uvic.ca > To: mamiddle@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:51:48 -0700 > Subject: [MAMiddle] great grand parents with higher lifestyle than money > > now, folks - > > I just want to clarify - my mom doesn't have any thoughts that she is due > money she didn't get from her grandparents. neither did her parents or > sibs; they were the only possible "heirs." > > Mom is 80 herself - she just can't think how her grandparents lived as well > as they did, with the money her granddad would have earned. This does puzzle > her, and as I said, it is the only genealogy thing she is curious about. it > would be nice to please her. > > I appreciated the suggestions about taking in wash or sewing. my mom did > not. when I asked if there was any chance of that, she said "surely you > jest - take in wash? she sent her own out! she was no washer woman!" She > says grandma could not have hidden wash or sewing - 6 grandkids in and out > too often. They did not rent out the Billerica house, nor the RI cabin. > > My sister and I laugh over less respectable sources of money. When we said > maybe her grandma was a bootlegger, mom said "NO! that was your dad's > grandma!" > (I think it could have been something like: an Cambridge Irish cop > apparently showed up at the door to ask a Lithuanian immigrant something > along the lines of "what's this I hear, you been making beer?" during the > prohibition. She - the Lithuanian - never could speak much English. But > she did know two things - 1)that if the cops showed up, you better do what > they said, and 2) that if men demanded beer, you better give it to them. > The cop left with a bottle, she thought she got off lightly; govt in > Lithuania was very repressive and to be greatly feared. He came back the > very next week . . . eventually, his cousin married her daughter.) > > My sister and I had less savory ideas, but mom was quite floored. NO WAY! > > Besides, great grand ma was busy being what I guess would be called a club > woman. > > I realize I have strayed off topic again, but I do have genealogy questions: > > 1) how would I find out about probate in 1959 for a Cambridge resident? is > that still the court over by Lechmere? any idea how expensive it could be? > any online source? I am in western Canada, no trip on the horizon. > > 2) I have seen the online property thing on the Cambridge city website. No > help, as they didn't own land in Cambridge. does anyone know how I could > research land records for Billerica, circa the 1920s to the 1940s? I have > not done any land record work in my previous genealogy "diggings," so I am > quite a newby in that regard. > > well, as always, my thanks to you all for listening, er, that is, reading, > and thanks for suggestions. > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/