I just found out my sister and brother in law like Trump

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43. Some of my ancestry was supposedly far less distinguished.

My maternal grandfather told me his family moved to New York City in the 1850s because they were deadbeat gamblers on the Mississippi river fleeing from their debts. He was the family wit. At age 99, he sent out Christmas cards with a photo of himself, looking very much his age, with the caption "Compliments of the Seasoned."

My dad's father, the husband of the LaGuardia labor liason, was born in South Carolina, somehow got into Harvard, but was penniless and worked his way through as a janitor. Long after LaGuardia was gone, he ended up as deputy mayor of New York City himself. Not bad for a South Carolina janitor.

I definitely have a diverse set of ancestors. When my daughter was in law school, she told me about some case her class was studying. I recognized one of the names in the list of litigators as my great-grandfather, who came over from somewhere in the Hapsburg Empire in the 1870s. His daughter was the LaGuardia labor liason. They DID things.