Family trees- rooting out interesting ancestors

[Publica]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

It's probably because the typical village idiot tends to have few, if any, records that they have ever existed, while people who are famous tend to have more records about them, which increases the likelihood that they will be remembered in a few hundred years.

Also people like being related to famous/special people. And actual idiots are probably less likely to have offspring that survive anyway.

[Cetacea]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

No I come from a line of drunks with arrest records spanning five generations . It’s quite an achievement

[Reploid Productions]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

I don't like to talk about my aunt much.

[Geneviev]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

I'm not related to anyone famous or the village idiot.

[The New California Republic]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

I'm not related to anyone famous or the village idiot.

In my case, are feudal Lords classed as famous or infamous?

[Geneviev]

I'm not related to anyone famous or the village idiot.

In my case, are feudal Lords classed as famous or infamous?

That's pretty famous.

Also, I learned by asking my cousins to ask my grandparents that my great grandmother had a weird brain like mine. And apparently one of my ancestors was a plague doctor.

[Albrenia]

In my case, are feudal Lords classed as famous or infamous?

That's pretty famous.

Also, I learned by asking my cousins to ask my grandparents that my great grandmother had a weird brain like mine. And apparently one of my ancestors was a plague doctor.

That's cool. I love them long-beaked masks.

[Skylus]

I'm related to Micheal Dwyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dwyer

my great grandfather was a Dwyer

[Datlofff]

And not just Ariskas. Helmets, flags, Lugers, and other stuff, which could end up making good things to show your grandkids.

From what I've read Lugers where especially sought after.

Yes, because officers only carried them.

There is one in my family currently that my grandfather owns, his dad (who served in ww2, I mentioned my great grandfather in this thread earlier, he was a polish tanker) died in the war but managed to capture one, so his friend came back and gave it to our family.

[Pax Nerdvana]

From what I've read Lugers where especially sought after.

Yes, because officers only carried them.

There is one in my family currently that my grandfather owns, his dad (who served in ww2, I mentioned my great grandfather in this thread earlier, he was a polish tanker) died in the war but managed to capture one, so his friend came back and gave it to our family.

That's an interesting story. Does it still work?

[The Black Forrest]

Angus McDonald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_McD ... militiaman)

[The Black Forrest]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

More then a few of those in the line. Family was wealthy once and drank the fortune away. My poor gran was always looking for validation in the lineage and we found some notoriety after she was gone.

[Datlofff]

Yes, because officers only carried them.

There is one in my family currently that my grandfather owns, his dad (who served in ww2, I mentioned my great grandfather in this thread earlier, he was a polish tanker) died in the war but managed to capture one, so his friend came back and gave it to our family.

That's an interesting story. Does it still work?

100 years old and shoots like a dream. Those germans really can make a gun that lasts. Wouldn't say the same for their empires though.

[Datlofff]

Isn't it amazing everyone ends up related to someone famous, and no one to the village idiot?

None of my relatives were famous. We were all soldiers or farmers. I think I had 1 or 2 knights in my family, but thats as far up the chain as we got.

[Pax Nerdvana]

That's an interesting story. Does it still work?

100 years old and shoots like a dream. Those germans really can make a gun that lasts. Wouldn't say the same for their empires though.

That's cool that it still works.

[Datlofff]

100 years old and shoots like a dream. Those germans really can make a gun that lasts. Wouldn't say the same for their empires though.

That's cool that it still works.

To be fair a good bit of its original action had to be replaced over the years. But at least it still fires well. Then again my grandfather does collect a lot of ww1-ww2 stuff. He has a BAR(isn't running anymore), a Garand, a m1 carbine, a few ww2 1911s, 3-4 kar98ks (only 1 shoots), a Finnish mosin nagant (now in my possession), a few ww1 era and ww2 era mosins, and several Lee Enfields of varying versions.

[Pax Nerdvana]

That's cool that it still works.

To be fair a good bit of its original action had to be replaced over the years. But at least it still fires well.

Repairs are often needed on a family heirloom like that. I think one of my great great uncles had an old SMLE or something like that, but I don't know for sure.

[Las Palmeras]

My maternal grandfather was a morbidly curious supermarket clerk who witnessed bits of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and managed to take refuge in Santiago's Church within the plaza when shit got serious. He then managed to sneak out some time in the middle of the night because he didn't look like a university activist; he didn't talk much about it for decades, he supposedly had recurring nightmares of hearing people being executed outside the Church by the military...and I never got to talk to him because he passed away when I was a baby.

[Internationalist Bastard]

So Wei convinced me to look into my history, so I’m waiting for some documents to be translated

[Internationalist Bastard]

My maternal grandfather was a morbidly curious supermarket clerk who witnessed bits of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and managed to take refuge in Santiago's Church within the plaza when shit got serious. He then managed to sneak out some time in the middle of the night because he didn't look like a university activist; he didn't talk much about it for decades, he supposedly had recurring nightmares of hearing people being executed outside the Church by the military...and I never got to talk to him because he passed away when I was a baby.

Yeah I can imagine that’d traumatize anyone
Still interesting

[Las Palmeras]

My maternal grandfather was a morbidly curious supermarket clerk who witnessed bits of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and managed to take refuge in Santiago's Church within the plaza when shit got serious. He then managed to sneak out some time in the middle of the night because he didn't look like a university activist; he didn't talk much about it for decades, he supposedly had recurring nightmares of hearing people being executed outside the Church by the military...and I never got to talk to him because he passed away when I was a baby.

Yeah I can imagine that’d traumatize anyone
Still interesting

Yes, to both regards. Curiosity almost killed the cat but that bit of brutal memory is far from uninteresting.

[Mushet]

Well on my white side I got some inventors famous enough for wikipedia and a castle with my name on it.

[Ethel mermania]

Angus McDonald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_McD ... militiaman)

Someone who knew Washington, that is pretty cool.


All I got is jerry Lewis.

[Chan Island]

The oldest known relative all the way up the male line is a baby that appeared at the Children's Hospice in London in the 1720s with nothing but a basket and a name tag. This guy grew up to become a gentleman who's daughter married a lord.

[Pope Joan]

Angus McDonald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_McD ... militiaman)

Someone who knew Washington, that is pretty cool.


All I got is jerry Lewis.

the darling of France! Drop his name when dining out there.