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

Alsace-Lorraine area of France/Germany

That is where my great great great grandfather was born on my dads grandmothers side.

In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I trace my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
You will never leave Harlan alive

Oh, my granddad's dad walked down
Katahrins Mountain
And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
Said, won't you walk with me out of the mouth
Of this holler
Or we'll never leave Harlan alive
Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
Till a man from the Northeast arrived
Waving hundred dollar bills he said I'll pay ya for your minerals
But he never left Harlan alive

Granny sold out cheap and they moved out west
Of Pineville
To a farm where big Richland River winds
I bet they danced them a jig, laughed and sang a new song
Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive

But the times got hard and tobacco wasn't selling
And ole granddad knew what he'd do to survive
He went and dug for Harlan coal
And sent the money back to granny
But he never left Harlan alive

Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave

In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I trace my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
You will never leave Harlan alive

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One of my direct ancestors was hanged for having sex with a sheep (my S/O asked if the sheep was also hanged). He was turned in by his wife and son.

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A Texas A+M grad would ask if the sheep was hung.

I am a direct descendant of the british royalty I have been rooting against on the show Vikings on History. King Ecbert, Alfred the Great, etc. I always knew I was supposed to live in a castle

Recently found out my great, great grandmother on my father's side was full blooded Cherokee

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One of my direct ancestors was hanged for having sex with a sheep (my S/O asked if the sheep was also hanged). He was turned in by his wife and son.

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Last night I told my daughter I had posted this little tid-bit of information on TD. She is working this ancestry stuff with my cousin. My daughter informed me that all the sheep in the barnyard were slaughtered in one of the worst cases of "victim blaming" in history.

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distant great-great whatever was senator in california. played a large part in the admission of california as a free state which was a very big deal at the time.

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frick him

My father was born in 1894 and my grandfather in 1855.

Belle Grove Plantation