Gen Tales
The Mystery of My Great-Grandfather’s Origins
Documentation can only tell us so much
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3 min readOct 31, 2021
My maternal grandmother always had this story about her father — he was an indentured servant who jumped ship on his way to America and went to Canada instead. He later entered the US and worked as a farmhand in Iowa for my great-grandmother’s family. That last part is true, or…