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by merrow » Tue Jul 16, 2002 1:39 am
I'm Italian/Irish, a straight 50/50 mix.
I know practically nothing about my Irish ancestry. My grandfather was an orphan, and all he knew about himself and his brother was that they were a) Irish and b) *most likely* named Dooley.
My Italian heritage is a bit more varied. My great-grandfather fled Italy with my great-grandmother, they were escaping for two reasons. First, my great-grandmother was the daughter of a powerful "connected" man, and there was a contract on my great-grandfather for eloping with her. Second, he was an anarchist and Mussolini was imprisoning and killing all the anarchists. So they fled to America, where my great-grandfather made his money bootlegging gin.
I also claim my interest in editing and such from him, he made a home movie about his life (grealtly colorized I'm sure) with one of the first home movie cameras called "Gone with The Gin". We still have copies of it and we show it at the family reunion every 5 years. (Last one had over 300 people).
Merrow