re: Cool/interesting facts and photos about your family history thread

On my fathers side they made their wealth assassinating those who stood against the crown (Bourbon Dynasty) in Spain. They were ruthless and became fairly wealthy doing so. They moved to Cuba in the 1800's and became doctors, lawyers, and tobacco plantation owners. They would participate in regattas representing the Havana Yacht Club around the Caribbean and Europe. I assume they made money off slavery in Cuba as well.

When Castro took over he asked my great-grandfather to become the surgeon general in Cuba. He said frick no and they flew to Miami. My aunt went to Cuba a few years back and visited the family's old homes. Those who profited off the revolution live in the homes. Whenever the US decides it's time to get rid of communist cuba we're going back to claim our land.


Moms side: All I know is they're from Biella, Italy and my grandmother had a hair salon on Magazine St.

My grandfather did the original report of Bonnie and Clyde's death on the radio. The audience thought he was "live, on the scene. Oh my god, the humanity" when in fact, he was in the studio, just making shite up.

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just making shite up.

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Like grandfather, like grandson.

Edit: just fricking with you

Does it really matter past your great grandparents? Yeah your great great great grandpappy might have been some hero, but he was also 900 other people's great great great grandpappy

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eir chief looks like my uncle), but her name was Lucretia (clearly an Afro-American name). I'

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Ever heard of Lucretia Mott? She was a white abolitionist who lived in the 1800's. That name was not always clearly African American.

Yeah yeah yeah.

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and arguably won the 1908 national championship, going 10-0 and outscoring their opponents 442-11):

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bama probably claims the 1908 title

My great grandfather is a compulsive liar so I don't trust anything he says about ancestors. He says bullshite like his father was friends with Pretty Boy Floyd, and escaped from Angola. He claims that he didn't go to World War 2 because he has flat feet, but he was probably just dodging. All I know for a fact is that they were sharecroppers, and he was apart of building the MS River levee system...

My grandfather, on the other hand, overcame his nit wit father and was a great man. The outdoorsy folks will think it's cool that he cleared a lot of land in the 60s, including Anna's Bottom and Cat Island. He also farmed.

As far as I know, any man that I'm a direct descendant of on either side of my family was/is a farmer, as am I.

eta: After seeing the Billy Cannon talk, my grandfather on my mother's side was a football player at a smaller university and was on the team with one of Cannon's childhood friends. They hung out a few times during the offseason. Says he was a nice guy. All I've got.

My great, great grandfather on my Dad's side was the product of incest between two cousins circa 1860.

Strangely (or maybe not since it's LA), the same thing occurred around the same time on my Mom's side of the family tree.

There is also a Louisiana Governor on both sides of the family (different Governor and non-incestuous).

My family walked to Utah pushing their belongings in handcarts. My great-grandfather had five wives. My family is referred to as "Mormon royalty" in a recent best selling book in Oprahs book club.