re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?

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Also according to our family lore (don’t have that last name anymore), but all of the Doolittles are descended from William the Conquerer and were a bastard clan of his that got together after his death.

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You might be interested in this article:

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Or this link:

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The bigger one has lead poured down the center of it to the handle. Much heavier. I'll show a pic in a minute.

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Lead poured down the center. No one ever knew that secrecy. Drilled out all the way down to the top of the hand grip.






That is is somewhat history, correct?

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I think….er, hope, you mean ancestor

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I mean she is a witch...soooooo

My grandmother had a massive Doolittle Family Book that I only looked through briefly, but it is an exceptionally proud and well documented family in the country. She herself was a Doolittle, but yeah there were lots of family charts in that huge book.

I mean save for the slaves they owned that also took the last name upon being freed (and let’s face it I’m probably directly related to some of them) and the people married into the family, all Doolittles are directly related in this country.

EDIT: Thank you very much for that link. May have misremembered the bastard clan I claimed (although William allegedly really got around where I probably still am one of his descendants), but as the article points out that the Doolittles do start with William the Conquerer where my ancestor was close and important enough to become an Earl of his. And yeah, Abraham is certainly my ancestor. So thanks for it. Really appreciate it.

But yeah, outside of my great uncle and his children and grandchildren, never met another person with the last name of Doolittle. Will put it on my calendar to try to make the 2033 Doolittle Family Reunion.

I went by the Pentagon a few hours after 911, we were in college and went to help (I don't think we knew how we would help but we heard that the bridges were closed to NYC).
We didn't actually get to volunteer for anything but we saw the side from the highway.

A woman told me she’d rather be stuck alone in the woods with a grizzly bear than sit by me at a movie.

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theyd get banned pretty quickly

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I have the three of his batons. Six shooter .38, brass knuckles, belt, holster, and the badge.

My grandpa’s brother was in D-Day (my grandpa served in the pacific, the other brother in England - was a bookmaker for a 1star general)

I can trace Irish Ancestors to the Fenian uprising of 1798

My grandfather was on the boat that rescued JFK after he and his shipmates were located after PT-109 shipwrecked.

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What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?

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My first relative that arrived in this country on my mom's side. George Washington put him in charge of leading a group to collect the boats that would cross the Delaware River.