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Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:04 pm to Pectus
- My great uncle on my Father's Grandmother's side was probably worse than my Sicilian mob side on my Grandfather's side. He was wanted for stealing horses. They found him drunk on the beach and hung him right there.
- My great great Grandfather was the first Postmaster of Blackman, FL which is also named after him
- My great great Grandfather was the first Postmaster of Blackman, FL which is also named after him
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:05 pm to Pectus
I am related to a former US president. Unrelated, both my parents were born in Kenya.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:09 pm to Pectus
I am related to William Wallace. He is my greatXsomething Uncle.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:14 pm to northshorebamaman
This is more recent history (2005), but my cousin ( Martha ) is a writer for Oprah's magazine and wrote a bestselling book, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith, that landed her an episode on the show, and stirred a national controversy, when she accused my Uncle Hugh, a prominent Mormon theologian, of abusing her.
I don't know if anyone remembers it but it made the rounds, mostly because it was "repressed memory" garbage.
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I don't know if anyone remembers it but it made the rounds, mostly because it was "repressed memory" garbage.
quote:
A Mormon Daughter's Book Stirs a Storm
The daughter of one of Mormonism's most prominent religious scholars has accused her father of sexually abusing her as a child in a forthcoming memoir that is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the practices and beliefs of the much-scrutinized but protectively private Mormon religious community.
"Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith" details how the author, Dr. Martha Beck, a sociologist and therapist, recovered memories in 1990 of her ritual sexual abuse more than 20 years earlier by her father, Dr. Hugh Nibley, professor emeritus of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and arguably the leading living authority on Mormon teaching.
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Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:16 pm to TheCaterpillar
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Jim Bowie is a direct relative.
I know some direct descendents who live in around Hampton Roads in Virginia now. I think he may originally be from Louisiana, but I can't remember. Their last name is still Bowie.
At the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, he sent me to get an autograph for him and myself from The Logo. When The Logo refused to sign my piece of merchandise, and I returned with only 1 signature, he kept it instead of giving it to me. Has always ticked me off a bit.
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Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:16 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:Amador County ?
My biological father was adopted and when we tracked down his biological family we found out his mother was had been a prostitute in northern CA, servicing the lumberjack camps. We refer to the mystery grandpa on that side as "Grandpa John
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:19 pm to Pectus
My useless father's grandparents (might be great grandparents, I don't remember) owned all the land that is now between Florida and government from the river to airline hwy. Somehow it was left to a daughter and she pissed it all away. My father and his father definitely got that gene.
This post was edited on 6/28/18 at 8:19 pm
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:19 pm to OWLFAN86
OWL, I bet your family tree looks like a stump.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:22 pm to Pectus
I am directly related to Sarah Winchester. Yes the sarah winchester the movie was made about.
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Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:25 pm to Pectus
My dad played at Auburn in 1946-47 as a180# guard. He also made the equivalent of an Athlon's in 1947 and was touted as the best freshman guard in the SEC in 46
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:26 pm to Pectus
My maternal and paternal lines are both sheep herders from a very small area in the Yorkshire Dales...so yeah I'm probably inbred
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:26 pm to Pectus
My grandpa survived the attack on Pearl Harbor at Hickam Field.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:29 pm to Pectus
My great grandmother’s brother died during the sinking of the Titanic. True story.
Some bitch kicked him off a floating door.
Some bitch kicked him off a floating door.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:31 pm to oleheat
I gave my DNA to ancestry.com and it turns out my dad may have been a murderer. So I got that going for me
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:33 pm to Pectus
One of my ancestors was a POW during the Civil War.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:35 pm to mikelbr
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I was 9 when this happened. My dad was in DOTD weight enforcement and thus had some info about that incident through LEO channels.
He showed us where it happened when we went down a few months after the incident. Crazy shite. I remember it well
In my mind I can still see the image of the pancake flat police car on the news.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:36 pm to scottfruget
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I gave my DNA to ancestry.com and it turns out my dad may have been a murderer. So I got that going for me
23andme says I'm a descendant of an Irish king named Niall of the Nine Hostages. I don't know if it's true but that's a pretty bad arse name.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:37 pm to Pectus
My wife's great great aunt is Mary Surratt.
My great grandmother was 100% Choctaw indian and dipped snuff. She is one of my first memories. Sitting in her rocker on her porch.
My great grandmother was 100% Choctaw indian and dipped snuff. She is one of my first memories. Sitting in her rocker on her porch.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 8:40 pm to Pectus
My great grandfather was a polish Jew from New York city that was taken in by a Cajun French family in Louisiana from an orphan train.
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