Where are you from and how did you end up where you are?
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Bare-ya-cuda
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From Milton Florida. Ended up in southern Maryland 20 years ago with the navy.
My ancestors landed in MD in the 1650s. . Apparently one of them married in to a family that came over in1634. Been banging around the state ever since. Wish we still owned the original land grant...it was a swath of land stretching west to east from the Patuxent to the Chesapeake, including what is now Dunkirk. There is a park on the Patuxent that is all that was left of all our property at some point....guess they gave it to the state. I want it back. Before they give it back to the natives.
Daddy and all his family, way back, from here.
Mama came here as a child with her Navy dad and family. He became a Tobacco Batch Playboy.
I married a Navy boy, hoped to get out of here and see some of the world. Nope, he liked it right here.
Guess I'll be here all my life.
Mama came here as a child with her Navy dad and family. He became a Tobacco Batch Playboy.
I married a Navy boy, hoped to get out of here and see some of the world. Nope, he liked it right here.
Guess I'll be here all my life.
Mommy Dearest was from PA and met my father through work in NOVA. Father was from the 7D originally. I was born in NOVA. Father retired when I was 10 and uprooted us and moved us here. I rebelled and was quite the little ****head about this move.
And just so we're clear about this, shithead and dickhead aren't censored. Yes, I was a royal ****head. Turns out it was the best thing that ever happened to me, because I fell for a local girl I probably never would've met otherwise. My kids have put down roots so I'm here to stay.
And just so we're clear about this, shithead and dickhead aren't censored. Yes, I was a royal ****head. Turns out it was the best thing that ever happened to me, because I fell for a local girl I probably never would've met otherwise. My kids have put down roots so I'm here to stay.
From Michigan went through several stops, most with the Navy, came here. Wife was married to someone here and she didn’t like it or him, we hooked up and eventually married. When I got out the wife wanted to move south and I was wanting to go north so we decided to give here a couple of years while we thought it over. 30 years later we’re close to making a decision.
The last phishing scam I got caught up in, the criminals felt sorry for me and deposited money into my bank account.
I was born and raised in Daniel Shays Country (West Springfield, MA) and spent my 1st 25 years 3 1/2 months living under my parents' roof save for the time I spent in residence at Norwich University, the military college in Vermont from August 1975 - December 1979. That is where I met my Mrs., who grew up in Wilbraham, MA, about 11 miles away from my childhood home.
Side note for HP Lovecraft fans: His family had a summer place in Wilbraham when he was young. The swamp near my wife's family home figures in some of his stories. She and her friends played there, even had a minibike trail where she crashed at age 12.
When the Mrs. and I wed in late June 1982, I joined her at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, where she was stationed. We moved to Eglin AFB in northwest Florida in late 1982. I joined the USAF Reserve in late 1983, served until late 1992. We had an apartment in Ohio, and lived in base housing in Florida.
In late 1986, we moved to Offutt AFB near Omaha, NE. We lived in Papillion, our 1st house.
In late 1991, back to Quite Pathetic AFB in Ohio, bought house #2. I got out after 9 years in late 1992. My Mrs. was Riffed in August 1994. She took a job with a dairy company, and we landed in northern Illinois in late 1996, house #3. She got downsized from them when her division was eliminated when the company was bought out in August 1997. It sent her into a downward spiral...PTSD and other effects of her service connected disabilities.
She was out of work until August 2012, when we moved to southern, MD. She had healed and took a job with NAVAIR at NAS Pax River. Our house in Pembroke is #4.
Side note for HP Lovecraft fans: His family had a summer place in Wilbraham when he was young. The swamp near my wife's family home figures in some of his stories. She and her friends played there, even had a minibike trail where she crashed at age 12.
When the Mrs. and I wed in late June 1982, I joined her at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, where she was stationed. We moved to Eglin AFB in northwest Florida in late 1982. I joined the USAF Reserve in late 1983, served until late 1992. We had an apartment in Ohio, and lived in base housing in Florida.
In late 1986, we moved to Offutt AFB near Omaha, NE. We lived in Papillion, our 1st house.
In late 1991, back to Quite Pathetic AFB in Ohio, bought house #2. I got out after 9 years in late 1992. My Mrs. was Riffed in August 1994. She took a job with a dairy company, and we landed in northern Illinois in late 1996, house #3. She got downsized from them when her division was eliminated when the company was bought out in August 1997. It sent her into a downward spiral...PTSD and other effects of her service connected disabilities.
She was out of work until August 2012, when we moved to southern, MD. She had healed and took a job with NAVAIR at NAS Pax River. Our house in Pembroke is #4.
Born in Akron, OH - that's where my Navy dad was from and because my mom stayed/lived with his parents when he went out to sea.
My Navy dad was transferred to St. Mary's County in 1961-ish and we spent a few years here before being transferred elsewhere. My younger sister was born at Pax River. After he retired from the Navy, he was working for a Radio Station in Scranton, PA, but he didn't like the weather - it was like Akron. So we moved down here because he was drawn back and he went to work at WPTX (where he worked a part time job as a Navy Sailor).
After he died, one of his cousins sent us the family genealogy information she'd been collecting on my dad's mother's side of the family. It traces her father's mother's side of the family as arriving in the St. Mary's County/Charles County border areas sometime in the late 1600's. How they most likely ended up in Akron, is that they migrated into Virginia -and then kept going further north until settling into what eventually became West Virginia. My dad's (maternal) grandfather moved their family (12 kids) to Akron, Ohio to work for Goodyear - so that's how they ended up there!
My dad died never knowing this genealogy information.
My Navy dad was transferred to St. Mary's County in 1961-ish and we spent a few years here before being transferred elsewhere. My younger sister was born at Pax River. After he retired from the Navy, he was working for a Radio Station in Scranton, PA, but he didn't like the weather - it was like Akron. So we moved down here because he was drawn back and he went to work at WPTX (where he worked a part time job as a Navy Sailor).
After he died, one of his cousins sent us the family genealogy information she'd been collecting on my dad's mother's side of the family. It traces her father's mother's side of the family as arriving in the St. Mary's County/Charles County border areas sometime in the late 1600's. How they most likely ended up in Akron, is that they migrated into Virginia -and then kept going further north until settling into what eventually became West Virginia. My dad's (maternal) grandfather moved their family (12 kids) to Akron, Ohio to work for Goodyear - so that's how they ended up there!
My dad died never knowing this genealogy information.
PeoplesElbow
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This is one side, the other side no idea. http://www.brianharbert.com/page-4/
So you may be related to Gillian?
Grumpy
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Grew up in Glenn Dale, MD in a large family. Married at 21, one daughter, divorced at 24, kicked around living the wild life for 5 years living with roommates in various apartments in the Lanham/Seabrook area. Bought a house in Seabrook with soon-to-be current wife, got married again, gained a son and had a son. Went to a PTA meeting and noticed quite a change in the community, considered moving north (Frederick area) or south (Calvert). The 70/270 corridor was in a building boom and we decided against going north. Ended up finding this house in Calvert and made an offer and put my house on the market. Been here since 88.
Maybe! ...and half of the county for all I know!
That is so cool!
The family ancestors [ through my fathers side ] I am told goes back to the earliest settlers from the old world ...
Mom was from a small town in PA came down to DC after High School recruited by the Federal Gov in the 1950's to fill the demand for Secretaries.
Dad was a Navy Brat, my Grand Father was a JAG ...
Born in the south while my dad was in the AF ... migrated to MD in 69, 1st living in the suburbs of Baltimore then down here, outside DC ... been here ever since ... I left for my 4 yrs in the Military, spending 11 months in Korea.
Mom was from a small town in PA came down to DC after High School recruited by the Federal Gov in the 1950's to fill the demand for Secretaries.
Dad was a Navy Brat, my Grand Father was a JAG ...
Born in the south while my dad was in the AF ... migrated to MD in 69, 1st living in the suburbs of Baltimore then down here, outside DC ... been here ever since ... I left for my 4 yrs in the Military, spending 11 months in Korea.