My paternal grandfather was born in northern Germany, lived latterly in Norway, and immigrated to the US in 1902, so took no part in post-Civil War US history. However, I just recently learned that my family’s “origin story” starts with grandfather Johann abandoning a wife and daughter in Oslo in order to elope to the US, at age 37, with an 18-year-old girl who became (practically, if not legally …) my paternal grandmother. It appears that I’m not the first male in my family to make a hobby of following his dick, LOL.