I was smiling while reading (except the part about your father, which is saddening) There's quite a bit of similarities between what I have gathered about my family's history and what you mentioned.

Those old love stories that happened despite all the differences are always fun to read. Sadly, not all of them have very happy endings.

I think I'm a bit lucky that I managed to save a very old "book" written by my great-great-great-grandfather which detailed the lineage to a very distant past (over 1600 years back).

Other scriptures (theological, sociological, and historical) written by his father are somehow locked in Oxford's library (I have no idea how/why they got there), and only 2 of them were available to the public to order an e-copy of, for a hefty price last I checked >.<

So yeah, my curiosity ended right there. 😂

But it's fun to dig into those things sometimes!

Thank you for sharing that part of your history @agmoore ❤