People of interest in your family history

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Boshko

Yes, where else can you buy many different kinds of strange imported tubers?

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?




ACK!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by orange
Continued...



http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/pr...lymaguires.htm

Couldn't you have just posted an excerpt and the link in the first place, I got dizzy scrolling through all those blue letters.



ACK!

[Tuberski]

The best I can do is, my great, great, etc. grandfather was a Mormon missionary to a southern Utah, Ute indian reservation in the 1880's. He was forgotten and spent more than 20 years on the reservation trying to convert them.

ACK!

[AnnC]

I'm a cousin of Andrew Jackson, five or six times removed. His father and my great-great-...-grandfather were brothers.

[Alexander's Horse]

My Auntie came up with the theory of relativity but got no recognition.

[Charlemagne120]

My current uncle began the K-9 unit of the houston police department as well as was a spy in china for a period of time (during which he hide in a bush and got pissed on) for a while he took pictures of peoples auras and has invented his own religion that is based in his living rooom.....and he reads tarot cards as a hobby on the side...

family reuinions are a blast let me tell ya

[Thrawn05]

My Grandfather (Mother's Side)

He was in the Pacific Ocean in WWII. He was in an amphib. assault on some small island. However, when the Island Natives saw the americans shootings the japs (The Natives HATED the japs), they charges the japs from behind. Needless to say, it didn't end well for the japs. I got pics of him with the islanders.

This man also quit school at 4th grade, could read, write and speak in a dozen languages (most of which were forms of Slov, such as Czech, Austrian, High Polish, etc...). And could fix any damn thing. He took his car engine out to fix it and put it back in. He had a few bolts left over but he fixed the car.

My Father (Grewup in Hoboken NJ)

Delivered Grocieries and newpapers to Frank Sinatra's Mom.

Play Baseball with his friends, and Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin (Just before hitting it big in NYC), played ball with them.

He got the patent for the catalyst converter underneath your car. (Don't worry, he took his off ). He was a chemist at Engalhard.

My Uncle Mike

The only one on my mother side besides me that not only finish HS but finished college. He was a teacher in the Phily university. He tought History of Art and his works are in the meusum there. He also traveled alot including Balhi, Cario, and Communist Czech just to name a few. If you to the meusum of arts in Phily, if you spot a painting credited towards Michael Morris that would be him.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Rochasen Falconer Moursund, suposed to have lived to 120 years old and been mayor of Trondhiem in Norge for 70 years. Maybe a confounding in the records of two men, frather and son or grandfather and grand son, of the same name.

Barrett the Bloodaxe Moursund

[Ramo]

My paternal grandfather had been an Indian Senator. I also have a few major academics in my family. For instance, one of my maternal uncles is a bigshot economist.

[Dr Strangelove]

Well. let's see. My relatives didn't come to the New World on the Mayflower...... one of them arrived on the Susan Constant about 14 years before. Other famous people I'm related to include: William Clark (of Lewis & Clark), Benjamin Harrison, Franklin Pierce, Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), and Lady Astor. I'm related to the man who invented lynching by a side branch.

Genetically we can trace our family ancestory back to the very first humans.

[Zkribbler]

I'm a direct decendant of Parson Weems, the guy who ...er... made up the story about Geoge Washington & the cherry tree.

Does it count if I'm a decendent of the adopted son of General Winfield Scott? That's almost related.

The official rumor in my mother's father's family was that they were related to the Hapsburgs. [I'll believe it when I see my inheritance. ]

[orange]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Couldn't you have just posted an excerpt and the link in the first place, I got dizzy scrolling through all those blue letters.



ACK!

Sorry, i thought it was an interesting read

[loinburger]

My grandfather was in the Bataan death march in World War II. He died about nine years ago. Great guy. (My other grandfather was also in the war, but he spent the entire time working on P-38's, which was certainly more enjoyable than being nearly beaten and starved to death, but isn't as interesting. He's still alive.)

Most of the rest of my family tree is lost in obscurity, since pretty much all of my ancestors were illiterate. (Except for my great-grandfather, who graduated from 7th grade.) The loinburgers apparently migrated over from France and Belgium awhile back, and started working as lumberjacks in Canada and Michigan, where they drank, cut down trees, and whoremongered. If they did anything interesting, then I am (probably thankfully ) unaware of it.

[Sten Sture]

My kids are now the eighth generation decendents of Thomas Jefferson, and I think are eligible to be buried in the family plot at Montecello - but that is through my wifes side. My side of the family are draft dodging farmers and missionaries.

Our new family motto should be:

WE THE PEOPLE are getting the hell outta here!

[Alexander's Horse]

Are you black?