sollers

My family has widely spaced generations, too. My mother's mother was born in the early 1880's, and the US Civil War would have been in her parents' memory. My father was the caboose of a large family, and his oldest brother was killed in action in WWI, making that war only one generation from me. His oldest sister was born in the 1880s's. Their grandmother was from Ireland, and when I was doing some research, it dawned on me that she was probably here from the Potato Famine. History, and the effects on opinions, are so much more immediate.