It must be genetic....

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I was doing some research on my family the other night and came across this---

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He was the younger brother of my great grandfather...
 
That's a great find! You just came across that from googling, or is this the type of stuff you find on those ancestry website services?
 
Matthew said:
Neat. My favorite quote:
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Ha!

My favorite...

Eyewitnesses said the cars making the dash across the bridge didn't observe the 30 mile speed limit to the letter of the law.
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That's really cool to know that they allowed pedestrians on the bridge before it opened. Wish they did that with the Zakim Bridge...
 
JohnAKeith said:
Were you quoting from 'A Chorus Line'?

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/achorusline/nothing.htm
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Nope.



I came across this from the boston globe archives-- there are a few other stories that are related to my family that I've found, such as a fire at the scrap rubber factory in the 1920s in Chelsea.

What I've really wanted to find more information on is on my paternal grandfather's side of the family-- his father and mother had a store on Washington St that sold all the stuff needed to distill alcohol during prohibition and were regularly raided by the police in that era. When my great grandmother was still alive, she told me about how he would get arrested, but the charges were always dropped for lack of evidence. He also supposedly engaged in "high interest" loans and ran the numbers in the neighborhood when the moved the store out to Brighton... And when he was running/playing a card game in Florida in the 1960s he caught someone cheating and confronted the cheater-- who then had a heart attack and died.

I haven't been able to find much about him-- the 1920 census lists him as being born in Russia, but the 1930 census reports him being born in Illinois.
 
I remember going to two public Zakim Bridge walks and at least two O'Neill Tunnel walks during the Big Dig.
 
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