I got back into gen.

[The Genealogist]

5. Genealogy certain brings the skeletons out of the closet.

Newspaper research can be especially rich for skeletons. My great grandpa was a Methodist minister, but that wassn't his only source of income. I found articles relating to his business of trash hauling. This tidbit got left out someplace between the stories of his children being playmates of the governor's kids and champion tennis players. Then there is my maternal grandfather and his family. Numerous articles about various jurisdictions suing them for failure to pay taxes. These are rather humorous in comparison to some of the dark stories, like the great great grandfather who was so emotionally cruel to his wife that she ended up in the state mental hospital and died there young.