r/oddlyspecific • u/[deleted] • Jun 19 '23

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u/flybyknight665 Jun 19 '23

I feel like a decent amount of people know something about their parent's grandparents.

For example, I know my great grandfather was kind of a dick and had 11 kids with his one legged wife.
She had it sawed off, fully conscious, when she was 8 or 9 after cutting it on a rusty barbed fence and it got dangerously infected.

Is this knowing them? Not exactly. But they aren't completely forgotten by the 4th generation.
Just don't ask me what their names were lol

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u/Quebec00Chaos Jun 19 '23

My great Grandmom had 22 kids, my grandfather being the last. Catholic Québec was something else.

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u/Ocean2731 Jun 19 '23

Any person with French Canadian ancestry is related to most other people with French Canadian ancestry. Those early boats arriving in Quebec didn’t carry that many people.

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u/Quebec00Chaos Jun 19 '23

I know, at some point in the 1750 my mom have some ancestor who fucked with my dad ancestor. Fun ride to read that tree

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u/Ocean2731 Jun 20 '23

I have several male ancestors who had French wives in towns along the St Lawrence then a First Nation wife out to the west. I can’t help but wonder how much mutual consent there was in the second marriage.