Comment preview: In 2011 my grandfather died and we had to clean out his house to rent it out and in the garage we had been storing photo albums and keepsakes from everyone who had died on both sides of the family, and I ended up with over 150 albums, 3 bags of loose photo ....

Comment preview: Not my wedding, but my parents. Background: My father comes from a deeply Irish-Catholic family, literally in the history of my family no one has every married someone who was not Irish and Catholic until my mother. My mother is a Polish-German Protestant ....

Comment preview: My father is German, my mother is Polish. I was born and raised in Germany. My grandparents, as you can probably guess, experienced WW2 very differently. Unfortunately I don't know as much about their experiences as I probably should, but here we go. Germa ....