Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Was a "Turning Point" In Your Parent's Life?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Family stories are often about "Turning Points" and "Major Decisions."  

2)  This week, please describe a "Turning Point" in the life of one of your parents (or for both of them, or for grandparents).  Describe the decision, and discuss the outcome of it.

2)  Share the turning point with all of us by writing your own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.

Here's mine:

The most important "Turning Point" in my father's life was his decision to come to California from Massachusetts in December 1940.  I told the story in Fred's Story: "The Three-Day Cross-Country Escape."

My father's life was turned upside down and he made the best of it. He met my mother, married her in 1942, had a son Randy, served in the U.lS. Navy in 1944-5, came home and had two more sons, became an insurance agent, a world class bowler, a competitive and crafty youth baseball coach, and eventually a grandfather of four.

Without this decision, I would not be the person I am in this place and time. I might not have an extensive Mayflower and New England ancestry, or the engineer's mind.  My wife might have married someone else, and our daughters might have very different genetics. My mother might have become a world-famous artist.  My father might have been a baseball player or a rock star.  

If I wasn't who I am, would the genealogy research process be any different?  Hmmm, probably not.  

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