re: Your random but interesting family history

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Ancestors from the Alsace Lorraine region of France/Germany.

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Got some of them, too.

Poor Alsace-Lorraine was always in a tug of war between the French and Germans.

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I have a French last name, and my family came to southern LA centuries ago, but we aren't "Cajuns"

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Same here. We were known as "Americains".

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Also, my last name was German, but translated to French upon arrival in Louisiana. Ancestors from the Alsace Lorraine region of France/Germany.

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This is where we differ. My ancestors are from the town of Magalas, which is Southern France.

Rumors are, that it is possible that my ancestors were Jewish. The reason being, is that there was a Jewish purge in France around the time my family migrated, and one of the families that came from france and settled in the same small town as my ancestors, were themselves Jewish.

My great grandfather murdered my great grandmother which split up my grandmother and her 6 siblings at a young age. It took my grandmother a few decades to find them all once they all became adults.

Another family member is a descendant of Dudley LeBlanc, the Hadacol guy. It’s interesting to hear that people on TD still remember hadacol and what a big deal it was back in the day.

For some reason, I remember my parents telling me I was a descendant of Davey Crockett, but I’m pretty sure it was all bullshite just to get me to wear a coonskin cap and go and play outside.

My Dad was a New Orleans Police Officer. When the 1984 World's Fair was over and construction crews were removing/dismantling the mono-rail my Dad and his partner were assigned to the detail patrolling the area. A crane was lifting one of the rail sections and the rigging popped. The beam fell 40ft, landing on top of the police car. My Dad's partner was injured pretty bad. Nearly lost his left leg. Left ring finger was dismembered which my Dad went back to retrieve afterwards to get his partner's wedding ring. He made it through after many surgeries and therapy but was permanently disabled.

The beam crushed the roof of the car in and missed my Dad's head by fractions of an inch. The experience and trauma severely affected my Dad and he needed years of psychotherapy to come to grips with it. He had blamed himself for it all because his partner wanted to have one more cup of coffee while on their lunch break but my dad pressured him to get back to work.

I was 8 when it happened. Learned about it while watching TV with my mom and it was on the noon news but they didn't mention the names of the officers involved. My mom got the call shortly after and went to the hospital to be with them...

Just one of several crazy stories from my past.

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Jim Bowie is a direct relative.

Pretty cool looking at our family tree to pick baby names for our son due in September and seeing him on it.

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You and I are related then because I am also a direct relative of Jim Bowie.

I'm related to Adam and Eve

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This is where we differ. My ancestors are from the town of Magalas, which is Southern France.

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Interesting. I'm pretty sure we're from the Mulhouse area. Not 100% on that, and they moved around a little bit before coming here, but it was in that general area. At some points they were in what is now considered Germany, too.

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This is where everyone says they have native American in them, not realizing we rounded those frickers up and rode them to OK.

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Well, my mom traced our lineage all the way back to a South Carolina Cherokee woman in the 1700s.

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Maybe


Maybe not

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I'm going with John Stark... Cause GOT...