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

My mom picked cotton and BTW she's white.

Granddad owned a cotton farm and it was all hands on deck during season

I'm meeting with several cousins in march. My sisters arranged it as part of ancestors.com family-centric lore exchange.

I really haven't seen anything too newsy yet. I knew one side was from Canada and that both sides are Ashkenazi Jews.

Both sides lied to USA immigration officials.

Most interesting thing is one great grandfather was a rabbi who stirred up his synagogue to retake holy land. Some cousins on both sides went there summers as teenagers, being inculcated with identity politics.

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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.


frick him

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All the fruits, nuts, and flakes would be ruining other states if it weren't for California.

Ancestor: Felicite' Louise Henriette De Grondel De Latil-- daughter of (Chevalier) Alexandre Antoine De Latil and Jeanne Goujon De Grondel
b.Dec 31, 1762 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
d.1833 in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
Gave her six sons to the Battle of New Orleans (January 8, 1815), and offered her services to nurse the wounded soldiers.She received a letter of thanks and praise from Governor W.C.C. Claiborne, public commendation and thanks from General Jackson, and was carried through the streets of New Orleans in a chair on the shoulders of two soldiers in honor of her services.

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bienvenu/11/

Ancestor was former president of US Grover Cleveland.

Ancestor founded Grand Pre, Nova Scotia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand-Pr%C3%A9,_Nova_Scotia

I am related to Francis Marion

We’re related to Tony Cachere on my dads side. That all I know.

My 9th great-grandmother was Susannah (North) Martin, one of the women convicted and executed at the Salem Witch Trials.

“During the trial, it is said that she laughed out loud at the afflicted persons as they writhed about the floor in great pain, which they said was caused by Susannah’s bewitching arts. She later stated in her testimony that she did not think the afflicted were bewitched.”

My great grandfather x a bunch of times from the 15-1600s in England had a daughter that married the great grandfather of George Washington.
So I’m related to him too, we share a grandparent.

My family has a current player on the Saints.

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My mom picked cotton and BTW she's white. Granddad owned a cotton farm and it was all hands on deck during season

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My dad was a child during WW2. While he was in elementary school in Atlanta they took all of the male students (white) and loaded them on a school bus and took them somewhere outside the northwest suburbs of Atlanta to pick cotton for the war effort. They spent the day picking cotton and then loaded them back on the bus to return them home. On the way back, the bus broke down in the Marietta area and my dad and his friends walked from there back to Atlanta.

My grandfather was from Durham, England. He was in Atlanta visiting his brother when WW1 broke out. Since the US was not initially involved, my grandfather made his way to Canada to join the Canadian Army. He washed out due to a hernia that he would not let them operate on. He returned to the US, then went to England to try to join up there where again his medical issues wouldn't allow it. He met my grandmother while there, got married and they came back to North America - first to Canada and then the US.

On my mom's side of the family, her aunt married into the Daniel/Daniell family that can trace their lineage back to the royal governors of South Carolina who owned the land that is now Daniel Island in the Charleston area.