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One of the great family mysteries I have is who was, and what became of my biological grandfather. The last name he held is that of a famous brand of guns so it makes searching for info annoying because of the amount of info on this brand of gun. I finally took out a trial on Ancestry.com and was quickly rewarded by finding my grandparent's marriage certificate. They were married at Red Lodge Montana around 1930. I had long fantasized that this grandfather had become rich and reclusive. I have not yet discovered what actually happened to him but someone had posted a newspaper clipping from a Billings Montana newspaper with an article detailing his arrest for shooting a drunken Mexican because said drunken Mexican would not leave the grandfather's drinking establishment, called in the article a "beer parlor", apparently owned by my great-grandfather. It's not quite living up to my fantasies.

Anyone else tried the site for family background?

@W--my wife was researching her and my genealogy a while back and found Ancestry.com was useful for the legal documents (birth, marriage, and death certificates, but not much else (unless some other person posts it, like the article on your grandfather). Information is also available on the Mormon website (apparently they have a lot of genealogy records because people who become Mormon can have their ancestors posthumously converted as well (I presume so everyone can be together in heaven). It's fee, as I recall, and no one comes to your house to convert you so it's worth a look.

It's fee, as I recall, and no one comes to your house to convert you so it's worth a look.

Heh, heh. Just you wait until you're dead and they want to collect that fee!

I think when my uncle was doing the genealogy Ancestry was in its earliest iterations. What useful information he found was through their message boards. I don't know if they still exist.

Good luck, its always fun to peer into our pasts!

The last name he held is that of a famous brand of guns so it makes searching for info annoying because of the amount of info on this brand of gun.

So was he a Smith or a Wesson? A Heckler or a Koch? Holland or Holland? AK or 47?

MajGenl.Meade wrote:

The last name he held is that of a famous brand of guns so it makes searching for info annoying because of the amount of info on this brand of gun.

So was he a Smith or a Wesson? A Heckler or a Koch? Holland or Holland? AK or 47?

I am not saying and giving ammunition to those who would use it to annoy or harm me. Har, get it, ammunition. I am hilarious.

Big RR wrote:@W--my wife was researching her and my genealogy a while back and found Ancestry.com was useful for the legal documents (birth, marriage, and death certificates, but not much else (unless some other person posts it, like the article on your grandfather). Information is also available on the Mormon website (apparently they have a lot of genealogy records because people who become Mormon can have their ancestors posthumously converted as well (I presume so everyone can be together in heaven). It's fee, as I recall, and no one comes to your house to convert you so it's worth a look.

Thanks for the tip I will see what I can find there too.

I'd guess he was a Remington but then I'd probably be accused of being a stalker.

I was thinking Winchester
Certainly goes with the rich and reclusive bit.

Back on topic my brother has used ancestry to quite some effect he was able to trace my maternal grandparents line back to the 13th century. My paternal grandparents haven't been as easy as they come from an area that is long disputed territory

I was guessing ArmaLite; second choice: SIG-Sauer.










"Glock" was too obvious.

We know a lot about my fathers side (still have contact with many relatives in Germany) but not much on my mothers side.

Colt 45.

Wait, that's a beer . . .

Guinevere wrote:Colt 45.

Wait, that's a beer . . .

Then it works even better for the story!

His name was Alex Kane, he died aged 47.

But also known as ..... Remington!

Gatling!

Winchester...

Already said that...

How about Luger?

Bushmaster?

Ruger! No, that was my uncle's german shepherd. Wonderful dog. The model to which all dogs since have been measured. He also had a Ruger Blackhawk .44 magnum which I got to shoot. Great gun.

Steyr! CZ!

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