Charlie Stross
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04-10-2002 12:05 PM ET (US)
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Okay, Patrick: "none of the ancestors I know about were Christian". Happy, now?
(To be fair, I haven't done any in-depth genealogical research -- that might be difficult, because one branch of the family came from the pale of settlement back in the 19th century and moved around like crazy. Allegedly, my great-grandfather met my great-grandmother in Poland while on his way home to Brussels(!) from Tehran(!!) where he'd been on an overland business trip. He didn't stay in Poland for long, though -- around 1900 they packed the kids off to England, then followed suit. Why didn't they go the whole hog and emigrate to the US? Nobody still alive who I've spoken to knows.)
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