I never knew either of my Grandfathers. On my mother's side, my GF was mostly a farmer, moving from Arkansas to Idaho to Colorado before settling down. He worked as a cowboy in Idaho for a while. His father was born in Illinois, moved to Arkansas and then to Idaho and farmed all his life. His father was a stone mason in Ohio and Illinois. I think it's safe to assume that I came from a pioneering family.

On my father side, my grandparents were born in Yucatan Province, Mexico. They came to the U.S. (The Bronx) in 1920, and my grandfather eventually started up his own manufacturing bueiness, mostly making things that other people invented, but didn't have the means to manufacture themselves. Apparantly, he was pretty successful, and was able to move his family to one of the more affluent sections of Brooklyn. My dad didn't talk about him much, as they apparently didn't get along.

Both my GF's died before I was born.