Humbling History

Mom gave me a name a couple of weeks ago and I finally got around to running it through Newspapers. I didn't clue in that it was my cousin Mary's husband. Mary is one of two children of my great-grand aunt that are still living, and once I made the connection, I opened a lot of humbling facts about my great-grand aunt N's family.

Previously, I found little personal items about N's two sons, who seems to have a few personal problems which made it into the paper. Honestly, these sound like teenage/young adult shenanigans, although I noted one son's marriage didn't last very long.

Ancestry connected some dots for me and I looked up obits in Newspapers as well. It all seems like too much information:

• N's BIL was died at Auschwitz in 1942 :-( Judging by the obituaries, the family was Catholic, but he was living in Poland at the time. I need to find out if N's husband came to Canada before or after WW2


• Mary's sister H had a first husband who died suddenly on December 31st. I wonder if it was a new year's eve accident :/


• H remarried seven months later, wow!


• Mary and her husband lost an infant son in 1955 :-(