tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13092168.post113052622324513015..comments2023-10-15T00:35:23.298-07:00Comments on That's Life. Life Goes On: It's free and very helpful.Untangled Family Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07662341843360451072noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13092168.post-1130604729692771462005-10-29T09:52:00.000-07:002005-10-29T09:52:00.000-07:00My husband did the genealogy thing a while back an...My husband did the genealogy thing a while back and it was VERY enlightening. In fact he found out he was NOT related to anyone with our last name.<BR/><BR/>His discovery, however, came way too late. Funny how some families really do keep secrets in the closets. If he had not done this, his mother may not have remembered that his grandfather changed his last name and then carried it through to his father. My husband's side of the real family name are the black sheep of the Lucent Technologies Corporation AND his <A HREF="http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112321" REL="nofollow">great uncle invented the first digital computer</A> and was a math professor at Dartmouth. My husband is a computer geni-ass (my pet name) and self taught. It was a pity this secret was not remembered sooner. He died just a few years before he found out. He would have loved to have meant the man.<BR/><BR/>Amazing what you can find when you go digging.stebbijohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03632760997450866475noreply@blogger.com