I’ve been doing genealogy research with my mom for months, mostly because there is a lot available for her mother’s family tree and not much available for the families of my other three grandparents. Anyway, I talked to my aunt (mom’s sister) on Sunday about all of the stuff I found. She asked about her dad’s side. I said I had very little, and then she just drops “My dad’s cousin was boxer Mickey Walker. Supposedly he was pretty good.”
I asked my mom about it and she said “We called him uncle Mickey!” then tells me stories I’m hearing for the first time in my life about a guy who has been ranked as high as the 11th best boxer ever. How did that not come up during three months of research talk? Crazy. So I had to buy a card. I’ll get more in the future
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