And my mom's family, they emigrated from Germany in at least my great, great grandfather in 1830ish, they took a steamship across the ocean, went to New Orleans, took the paddle wheel up Mississippi, ended up in St. Paul. And They, with seven other families, started the first Jewish synagogue in the territory of [Minnesota]. And then my grandfather got into the fur trading business. Not so much, you know, a line of work popular these days, but as a part of that, you know, … (03:40–03:48)
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