Interesting find concerning my Confederate ancestor

[Warpy]

22. Ha! My ancestors never developed a taste for farming

so they became sailors and merchants, scholars, craftsmen and artisans, itinerant musicians, anything that kept them moving around and away from the plow. The women were all willing to take a chance on a stranger passing through than end up with lives like their mothers. They were, however, more Catholic than the Pope, some out of survival since they'd been forcibly converted, others because it was a national and political identity as well as a religion. The latter defined my mother, who still believed the Irish take on reincarnation.

Both sides sported prodigious drinkers who eventually died when they went crazy and then their livers exploded, so I'm delighted something came through on a stray gene and prevents me from drinking alcohol, unless I'm feeling masochistic.

I'm glad both my parents died unbelievers, no fear of judgment or hell. Otherwise, we'd maintained an armed truce over religion for decades.