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#1 Fox The Cat

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 06:49 PM

I am just here to know a little more about you guys I guess. Just tell me anything interesting about your family's past or present or both! I'll break the ice with 3 things about my family!

 

1. My great grandfather was a Nazi in World war II. He didn't like Hitler's beliefs so he was sent to the Russian wilderness! There he got shot 7 times in the back because the Germans had fashion and just had to where trench coats he got caught on a fence trying to get away and was sent to a Russian Prison for 7 years. They only fed men there 1 serving of potatoe skins a day. This whole time his family thinks he is dead. So after 7 years he gets out and comes home. The End!

 

2. I live on a big hill that looks out to the city of San Diego Callifornia. I lie at the top and my cousins who are Triplettes live at the bottom. They used to live on Long Island, NY, but they moved. My Uncle has over 10k followers on instagram.

 

3. My great aunt was rich and her husband died so she sold the house to go live with relatives for a while because of her depression. She asked to live with my Nana but she said no because she was raising three kids including one of them being my mom. So she went to one of my other great aunts that was in a wheelchair. So the crippled Great Aunt decided to take all her money and sent her to a insane asylum. There she spent the restof her days until she died. The END!

 

Hoped you liked my storis I hope you have good family stories like mine I could read about! ^-^


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#2 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 07:17 PM

My great grandpa was a moonshiner.

He had 7 wives.

There's a patch of trees where his still was with opposing bullet holes, and shell casings where he had a shoot out with revenuers. 

 

My uncle once shot a guinea fowl for laughing at him.

He also set a boat on fire because he caught illegal fish and got fined.

 

There will be more. >.>


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#3 No-Danico

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 08:20 PM

My mother’s side was accused of witchcraft back in the day, but the inquisition squad (The term my grandmother used) was chased out of town because the witches were so damn lovable. (And I imagine the corn crops were great that year) On the other side is the story of a rapist who had a thing for Native American women. Eventually, the rapist and witches met up, they formed the Matthews.

 

One ancestor of mine was killed in the pursuit of John Dillager. One of his kin was the sheriff of a small town in Tennessee. He met his wife through one of the prisoners, a moonshiner and runner. She was the daughter of said prisoner.

 

The Matthews side is officially banned from the state of Tennessee. Apparently they didn’t take kindly to my great grandfather standing up in the middle of church and disclosing all of the little secrets of everyone there. (The preacher was banging all of the widows, apparently) So after they were kicked out of the state they settled on the edge of the Georgia-Tennessee border to spit at them or something, I dunno.

 

The Stones are pretty bad too. My grandfather once killed some of his friends over a card game, cowboy style. No one did anything because he was so damn lovable. The family is filled with felons and cops.


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#4 Fox The Cat

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 09:30 PM

Thoughs are both really cool to me!

Is that weird?

>.>

<.<


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#5 SIlhouette

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 11:17 PM

All my family that left Poland pre WWII survived, all that stayed died.

Sir Ernest Giles (The English explorer lead 5 expeditions to central australia) is an ancestor of ours.

John Lennon (The Beatles) is a relative.

I am half Irish on my fathers side, half Polish on my mothers side, Born in Australia, 1/32 aboriginal blood, 1/4 Israeli, 1/4 English.

 

My grandfather could speak fluent Polish, German, Dutch, English and French and because of this his job in WWII was to intercept German broadcasts from a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and then reply back in German broadcasting false British movements. He was a Warrant Officer in the RAAF. He was apart of Mission Cellophane which was a mission to drop cellophane over german radar towers to make germans think that it blocked radar, as such the germans started investing research, development and resources in dropping cellophane on british radars. He was crucial in that he spoke in german and stated that (pretending to be a german squad commander) he could not track the british movements.

 

There are many more things but I will save them for other days.



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Posted 11 March 2013 - 11:45 PM

Ummm

Related to Ned Kelly's best friend.
Grandfather was mechanic in WWII

That's it really, not overly interesting I suppose

My family isn't really related to anyone interesting or done anything interesting.
My immediate family has done some weird things, I can tell you about those...
Nothing like what anyone else has talked about though.


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#7 SushiKitten

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Posted 12 March 2013 - 05:02 AM

My mother’s side was accused of witchcraft back in the day, but the inquisition squad (The term my grandmother used) was chased out of town because the witches were so damn lovable. (And I imagine the corn crops were great that year) On the other side is the story of a rapist who had a thing for Native American women. Eventually, the rapist and witches met up, they formed the Matthews.

 

One ancestor of mine was killed in the pursuit of John Dillager. One of his kin was the sheriff of a small town in Tennessee. He met his wife through one of the prisoners, a moonshiner and runner. She was the daughter of said prisoner.

 

The Matthews side is officially banned from the state of Tennessee. Apparently they didn’t take kindly to my great grandfather standing up in the middle of church and disclosing all of the little secrets of everyone there. (The preacher was banging all of the widows, apparently) So after they were kicked out of the state they settled on the edge of the Georgia-Tennessee border to spit at them or something, I dunno.

 

The Stones are pretty bad too. My grandfather once killed some of his friends over a card game, cowboy style. No one did anything because he was so damn lovable. The family is filled with felons and cops.

That sounds badass.

 

The coolest thing about my family is that I can't find any information on them. I've asked my parents, my grandparents, my great grandmother on one side. Nobody seems to know any family tree stories.

 

My dad owned a licensed radio station that he ran himself. That was pretty cool. All my friends knew him because they'd listen to his station. He stopped a few years ago though.



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Posted 12 March 2013 - 05:42 AM

One ancestor of mine was in the SAS during WWII, but was executed for looting while in France.

My mother's side, my great grandfather was a bare knuckle boxer and a member of the IRA.

My uncle wrote a book of horror stories when he was 15 and tried to get it published. But they refused him because they were too gory for a teenager to be writing. Another uncle wrote a few episodes of Shameless when he was the script editor.

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Posted 12 March 2013 - 06:17 AM

My grandfather was in World War II and won 1 or 2 awards, and when I asked about his time after WWII he always joked, "I was the reason there was no war."

My other grandfather grew up in a homeless family, worked insanely hard and eventually became owner of a bank , called TCF bank. He was frugal to the extreme.

My brother's father (my dad is still in our family but my brother had a different father) is the owner of a private photography company, which my brother works for, and my stepfather doesn't know that.

My mother has a degree in audiology, and my father's a powder chemist at Sherwin Williams.


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#10 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 12 March 2013 - 06:21 AM

More from the spleen.

 

My grandpa was drafted to the army twice, and once he served with Elvis.

 

My dad survived a magnesium explosion that knocked out the concrete walls of the building he was in.

 

My grandpa, same as up top, was a rodeo clown and one of his signature moves was running across the back of a bull that charged him.


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Posted 12 March 2013 - 07:54 AM

Man, you guys always make me feel so normal.

 

My grandfather moved here from Missouri to work at John Deere. Back then the foremans used to ride around on bikes in the factory because it was so large - one of them was a real asshole so he and some of his co-workers dipped the guys bike in a giant vat of signature john deere green paint.



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Posted 12 March 2013 - 07:57 AM

:lol:

I would have loved to see that.


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Posted 12 March 2013 - 09:55 AM

My great great great (great?) grandmother killed a colonel and some fusiliers by barricading herself in her house and pouring boiling gruel onto their heads. She played a prominent role in the Bodyke Evictions and renewed the Land War against the British invaders. Basically, the British landlords who had been wrongly given Irish land tried to force the tenants to pay extortionate rent, some police turned up to evict 26 residents and killed one of them outright by crashing a rifle butt onto his face.

 

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My great granddad was in the IRA and I believe he blew up a police station, they rebuilt it so he went and blew that one up too. Basically until my granddad left the country, we have a history of being a pain in the arse for the English.

 

Hmm, well actually to be fair my Granddad fought for Britain in World War II, served in Monte Casino and El Alamein in the Desert Rats, I think he was a rear gunner too. My uncle fought in the Royal Marines and served in the Falklands. If I'm lucky, I'll be the first family member for generations who isn't a war hero.

 

e: Oh and not directly related to family but my Granddad was friends with the first guy to get injured in the Normandy landings...the bloke shot himself up the arse by mistake and had to stay on the ship. xD


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Posted 21 March 2013 - 10:34 AM

My mom's a troll. I'm not even kidding.

 

My dad's side of the family was in the church, and they were actually decent people, so...


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Posted 21 March 2013 - 02:49 PM

A friend of mine who I have known since we were wee lads is a descendant of the Black Donnellys.

 

If you don't know who they are google it up, they were a family that had every member murdered and their house burned down (with children inside) by the whole town back in the late 1800's. They are quite renown in Canada, and the whole thing went down not far from where I live.

 

Also, my buddy befriended a guy when he went to college that was descended from the main family that started the attack on the Donnellys.

Bam, history.


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Posted 21 March 2013 - 03:59 PM

Crikey, what a lovely way to go. =/


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