I am preparing a kind of family tree for our children so that they know where they came from. In my family I am the only survivor, although my brother and sister died recently they were both in their seventies (a story I told already). It was a fun process, but it provided more than that. First, I married relatively young I was 26 when I married and nearly 30 when our first child was born. I was looking at my ancestors. On my mother's side, she had 6 siblings, Four died before the age of 30, two in war, and two from illnesses. Only she and a single sister survived. The two boys had a child each but they died in WWII, and the other sister died as an infant. what is interesting is that every one of my mother's siblings had children in their early 20s. I know that my mom was hardly 20 when my brother was born. What is remarkable is that among our friends, we are the only ones to have fou...
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