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pud99 said:
Well, Henry Ford was legendary and Edsel Ford (who became the President of Ford Motor Company in 1919) was famous at the time the kid was born (1929). To this day the Fords, and some Ford Nation types, like to play off the name on signs and stickers (e.g., Ford Tough).
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Name a kid after Henry & Edsel and you can use it to convince a lot of people (prior to the internet of course) that you're related to members of Ford Motor Company. "Yeah, we named him after the cousins".

casita said:
"Ernest Ford fought in the First World War. As a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was awarded the Good Conduct Badge in 1917 for military service, a 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal."

According to Findagrave, his DOB is May 3, 1889.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111226787

There is no one with that DOB here:
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discov....aspx?k=Surname:"ford"+AND+GivenName:"ernest"
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With all of all the outright lies about accomplishments, deeds and actions; I wonder if we're not seeing a family of con-artists. Not just privileged, bratty kids who got older, but a family who's subsisted off lying and conning others?
 
Acrossthewater said:
Don Peat wrote this about Rob's grandfather, Ernest Ford, in 2012...

According to Ancestry.ca, Ford’s first paternal ancestor in Canada may have been sent here at age 11 because he was “unruly.â€
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/31/rob-fords-ancestor-landed-in-canada-for-being-unruly

I was looking for the video of Katie Simpson's reaction to the 'enough to eat at home' and came across another reaction by a female reporter-not sure who she is with- but it's funny too.

@ 0.28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H4siKr6qY8w
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The guy at the end who says "I love that guy" sounds like Norm MacDonald. And I can just see him saying that too. Lol
 
zang said:
A member of the Ford clan, seemingly named after a car was killed by *public transit*? You can't write this stuff.
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well, to totally nitpick, he was named after Edsel Ford, who in turn had a car named after him in the 50s, which, turned out to be a dud
 
pud99 said:
Findagrave says 1889 - and we need to remember that, as he lied about his place of birth when enlisting, he might easily have been lying about the year too.
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might have been ashamed of the circumstances of his arrival (a lot of people looked down on home children).
 
kbdid said:
well, to totally nitpick, he was named after Edsel Ford, who in turn had a car named after him in the 50s, which, turned out to be a dud
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I know, I should've specified "car company magnate". It also doesn't specify that the power cables were TTC cables, but still...
 
dforthandbview said:
I'm curious about my family history. Can you do mine next? :)
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pud99 said:
Findagrave says 1889 - and we need to remember that, as he lied about his place of birth when enlisting, he might easily have been lying about the year too.
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People were a lot less twitchy about precise dates (and spellings) in those days. Many young men lied about their age to enlist in WW1 and many enlisted under false names (so their family wouldn't find them or for other nefarious reasons). It's only recently that you've needed photo ID to buy a coffee.
 
kbdid said:
well, this whole thing and this thread, gets weirder...now we're into genealogy :)
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We are only really interested in sniffing out false genealogy, which is a subset of the main theme of this thread (to borrow U.S. Senator Al Frankin's book title): Lies And The Lying Liars That Tell Them.
 
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