Ancestry/Genealogy

polly7

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4. I have suicides in my family.

Sat Mar 24, 2012, 11:22 AM

Mar 2012

About every second generation there were at least a couple, one gr. uncle killed his whole family and himself. Another did the same with his sons and himself. They seem to have been when times were really tough and the family was destitute. I still haven't been able to include this in the history I'm planning to give to relatives, but I probably should, as I have the death records that prove it. It's sad though, and hard to know how to go about it.

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