re: Genealogy fans: What are some cool facts about your family's history?

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Mothers side.... Lighthorse Harry Lee as a great uncle

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Let's just say I'm skeptical that your mother was born in the 1800s....

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Father’s side.... Susan B Anthony as a great aunt.

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And skeptical as well that your father was born in the 1880s.

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My great^8 grandfather founded a town in Louisiana.

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3rd great for me, but it’s not really a town, just a community

My last name’s on the water tower though, and it’s not written in krylon either, haha!

I’m a descendant of Sieur Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline who came over with d’Iberville, Bienville’s older brother, and settled Dauphin Island and the MS Gulf Coast. My branch of the family comes from the children with his Choctaw wife. Fun fact: one of his sons, Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline II, is one of the few persons to ever be executed in the Americas by the breaking wheel.
Also, my great-great whatever grandfather was a brother of Beausoleil Broussard, the Acadian freedom fighter.
Another great-great whatever grandfather came from Spain and his family was one of the founding Malagueño fams of New Iberia.
My great grandfather from Dalmatia had his initial immigration status rejected by the gov’t because his two witnesses/attestors couldn’t speak English.
My uncle shared the story that his mother told him that our family is related to Dominique You, artilleryman extraordinaire and one of Lafitte’s Baratarian bff’s, but I’m not so sure that that is true.

Around 1920,my great grandfather set out to walk around the world. He and my great grandmother (who I remember) lived in St Martin Parish and moved to New Orleans. He left New Orleans and went to visit a brother living in Seattle. While there he decided to walk around the world. He set out walking to NYC, then took a ship to France, walked through Italy and kept heading east. I'd have to look up his exact itinerary, but he walked to Egypt (family has pics of him with Pyramids in background), Persia, through India, to China. He made it to the coast of China where he apparently was going to take a ship back to the States, but he contracted Yellow Fever and died. The US Embassy in China notified my great grandmother of his death and final resting place. There are newspaper articles from the time that talked about his travels. He was a pretty good self taught artist and drew pictures of some of the locales he visited and sold them to make money for his travels. Some of the pics he drew were on postcards that he sent to family members and some of them still survive.

Riddled with bowel problems, predisposed to chemical addictions and a touch of mental illness. Anything else you’d like to know?

my family settled in Washington La - the family home is outside of Washington

My great great great? GF was the "Hanging Judge" in the Western territory. RIchard Parker. Go to Ft. Smith, AR, the gallows still stand where he hung the folks.

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It's riddled with heart disease

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I hear ya

Lucky winner here of a bicuspid aortic valve (most people have a tricuspid valve), passed along through my maternal grandfathers side of the family.

So I’m looking forward to getting my chest cracked open in the next 10 years to replace the valve before I go into florid congestive heart failure.

Yayyyyyyy

Mom’s side: Davy Crockett
Dad’s side: First group of Acadians to settle in this great state. Wasn’t by choice, but thank God for it.

I'm a living descendant of a Revolutionary War hero Nathan Tibbs, who fought in the Battle of Mayberry Bridge.