Re: OT: births, was Re: Quick Announcement

Roger Mills wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >> And I thought seven was a lot.
>
> My 5gr-grandfather produced 13, all of whom lived-- quite amazing in the
> late 1700s.  (It seems he may have been Welsh, his wife certainly was)
My greatgrandfather was one of eight children, all of whom AFAIK lived
as well.   His brothers set up a lumbermill in East Texas in 1917, and, after
founding the small towns of Wiergate and Bon Wier, moved to Houston.
He had three children; his son had three children; and my father had two.

Family history is kinda a weird subject for me. I discovered a few years back
to my everlasting shame that at least two branches of my mother's family were
slave-owners in the 19th century; in the 1820 census, it was recorded that we
owned 17 slaves while living in Mississippi, 14 males and 3 females.  That's
part of the reason I want to go into education so as to atone for the sins of
the family (I can't, of course, but I should try at any rate).   On the other hand,
IIRC another part of my family were petty nobility in Germany before they
emigrated from the Rhineland in 1786.

(That could of course also be read as saying that that ENTIRE line was
oppressive.  Oh well.)

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