Originally Posted by
bedbugbilly
Jus remember that every person has two grandfathers and two grandmothers - from then on, as you go back each generation, the great, great-great, etc. grandparents double each generation you go back.
People are people - always have been, always will be - and there are very few who don't have :skeletons" in their closet. One of mine is Benedict Arnold. One of my great-grandfathers - never knew him - was an abusive drunk - he and my great-grandmother, who was a kind and wonderful woman, divorced in 1898. My grandmother, the youngest of the children, was 14 at the time and had to give testimony against her father at the time - I have the transcript of the hearing and it isn't enjoyable to read.
Sometimes a bit of a shock to learn of such things, but YOU are not your g-grandfather - so don't waste precious time worrying about something that you have no control over and can't change. As a writer, fle it away in your memory as another "circumstance" that you might be able to weave into one of your books that others would find interesting.