The time I’m thankful great grandpa, for a variety of reasons, chose to resign from his job with White Star rather than sail on the Titanic.
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The time I’m thankful great grandpa, for a variety of reasons, chose to resign from his job with White Star rather than sail on the Titanic.
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Wow! That’s a super interesting nugget of family history. I’m glad he quit that job, too!
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Good judgement or something worried him? Now there’s a new angle. What did he have to say about it all? (That’s a post worth writing…please?)
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I wish I knew more, but he passed before I was born and the papers related to his resignation have disappeared over the years.
Members of the family think it had to do with emigration; perhaps working for an American-based company such as Dole would help them gain entry? I know that the whole family was moved over by 1916.
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Tha”s fascinating. All the family stories lost if only someone had written it down – but like now, we all think no one will be interested in our ordinary lives…there should be a designated historian charged with journaling each generation….on paper – or at least print it out and put is somewhere just in case. (It’s a challenge to keep moving the pictures and saved documents into the newest format – we’ve some old family films that were put on CDs, then flash drives….and the after a while you think – will it mater to anyone at all, but we value shards of pottery dug up and speculate, right?
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I can’t tell you how much this response and influences my thoughts over the last few hours. I sense the start to an essay and a change to the way I introduce my classes each year.
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Wonderfully interesting bit of your family history. At least it was handed down as oral history and stirs you to remember this very day.
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