I was killing time after researching on HaithiTrust for a couple of projects when I just decided to just look what I could find on some of my wife’s family names. I looked for Beggs, her grandmother’s surname and found the usual Book O’Beggs and Pages from the Early History of the West and North-West by Rev. S. R. Beggs (my wife’s first cousin, 4 times removed). Then I saw The Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco, California, Model Study of Tower, September 13, 1933, by George E Beggs, my wife’s Grand-Uncle, who happened to be the head of the Structural Engineering Department at Princeton University. We knew he had done the study and it was the results of the study that gave to go-ahead on the project, but to find the actual report!

OK, we did buy the model of the actual test model that was used in the study (Margie standing next to the Test Model).

And, yes, Uncle George was at Princeton with that other famous guy, Albert Einstein.