30 People Joined This Viral Thread Of Sharing The Coolest And Oddest Facts From Their Family’s History

this is so sad and horrible on so may levels. poor man, poor bear.

WOW! Your great, great grandparents sure chose the right name!

I can only guess that had she known she would have been pleased.

Nice photo, but it makes me wonder when Germany switched to driving on the left.

The true question is, who is hiding in the drapes?

As well you should be!

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Does she tell your children her stories?

Yay seeing eye dogs!

Good news, everyone! They named Futurama's Professor Farnsworth after him!

Those convicted in Salem were hanged, actually. Unless the ancestor was Giles Corey, in which case he wasn't stoned, he was pressed -- they piled rocks on top of him because he refused to answer the charge of witchcraft.

Right On!

It's very well known that nobody puts baby in the corner!

The bitter irony of it all!

Must be a fun family reunion!

Why is coming over on the Mayflower such a big thing? Not trying to be rude (Australian here), just I hear it a bit and I'm curious

My husband's great great however many, was already in the US a few years before the Mayflower arrived. My 1/2 Choctaw g-g-g-grandmother's grandfather led an insurrection against Queen Elizabeth, and his grandfather was poet laureate to Henry VII. Her Choctaw grandfather was, in fact, related to Pocahantas! 😆

Sounds like George Forman.

YAY...happy ending!

Clementines are yummy and your great great grandmother was a honey!

Sorry, but that is completely untrue. The oyster from Rolex was named after the similarity of the case shape to oyster shells. The cases were invented in 1891 by Francois Borgel and patented by Rolex in 1926 after Hans stole/transferred the patent to one of his partner case maker manufacturers.

Do you glow in the dark too?

That’s pretty groovy

He was at the wrong side to the wrong countries all the time

Do you know which line? I took SP all the time in my years as a young adult because my grandparents lived about 30 miles south of San Francisco, where I lived.

Is this the guy that used to hide kittens in his beard or am i confusing him with someone else?

Wow...the irony is so intense here!

That’s hilarious!

The most debonair jailbird of his generation!

My mother discovered she wasn’t an only child after all when someone contacted her because this woman’s 63&Me report showed she had a sister in California. She and my mom met and stayed in touch until she just stopped hearing from Jean (pre-pandemic by years).

What was his name, does anyone know? This would be an interesting story to research more.

Yes, Soviet Russia is a laugh a minute, but it sucked.

Where did he do his whispering?

You can't miss something like that. They saw. They heard. They weren't going to give up someone who killed a collaborator.

OOPS!

Please tell me you named YOUR son Edward as well. (If he has one. And yes, I know he can't see this.)

Wowie-Zowie! My paternal grandfather traced his family back to the 900s and found out that the family name (Jett) meant “keeper of the keys.” Since the city’s keys aren’t turned over to just anyone, this makes him minor nobility.

And how long after that was *he* fired?

I’m sooo jealous! I had a crush on Paul for probably 25-30 year...from my childhood well into my 20s.

Photos. I need photos.

Yowza! Check that out! I learned at my father’s funeral that he had been awarded three Bronze Stars for bravery during the Korean War. (My father was an alcoholic who spent all of his money at the bar, leaving my mother to scramble in order to feed me and my brother. When she found out she was pregnant with my sister, she left him, divorced him, and received sole custody of us from the court.)

Saying this as a German. I think it is wrong for people with Nazi ancestors to cry about it and feel bad and ashamed. This has nothing to do with you. You were not a part of it. It's not you who has to live with the guilt.

Woah....

Where's the rest of this story?!

I hate to be a party pooper, but the Cherokee Trail of Tears was from 1830 to 1850. You may have a very long lived grandmother, but that photo does not predate the Civil War.

My grandfather’s people settled in the Shenandoah Valley in the 1600s, which means they likely owned slaves. In my will I’m going to leave whatever money I still have in my various accounts to the NAACP as reparation for this ugly history.

My great grandmother (born in 1894) married Mr. Robinson, had my grandmother, and later divorced Mr. Robinson (I have no idea how she pulled that off back in the 1920s as a practicing Catholic), married Mr. Ness, had my great-aunt, left Mr. Ness and without divorcing Mr. Ness, shacked up with Mr. Robinson, carrying his name to her grave. It apparently caused quite the scandal in her small Oregon town.

Which country is it in?

How the hell could ANYBODY find that out?

Grace Sherwood, taken down a dirt lane now known as Witchduck Road and dunked.

Who in the family did the genealogy that revealed this?

I want to know more about the Jackson Pollack part!

The Sopwith Camel!

Le drame des pieds noirs....

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It is pretty common with family stories of people being decendants of bastard children of kings. They seem to get around and contraceptions or abortions was probably not a big thing until in the 1900's. My great grandfather was such a bastard to a king, but the most interesting ancestor is perhaps Joséphine de Beauharnais or Empress Joséphine of France who was also Napoleons first wife. Some of my ancestors (her relatives) got beheaded in the French revolution, but if memory serves me right she became Empress like 10~ years after the revolution

Unrelated but I like his username

Wow...D**k Clark! That’s so utterly cool.

One of the Reivers? Apparently that's where most of the Scotch Irish people in the US Appalachia areas have their origin, as well!