Something Interesting About You/Your Family

[tbo41fan]

Mention something about you or your family that is interesting/embarrassing/whatever...

Lets have some fun with this!

 

[derosabomb]

tbo's family <3's teh hostess snacks

 

[HighJump31]

interesting-
Dad's side- Horse racing family. I have a great uncle that is in the Guiness Book of World Records for horse racing.

Mom side- My grandpa was Dwight D. Eisenhower's jeep driver in WW2. He always talked about the conversations he overheard between Eisenhower and George S. Patton.

embarrassing- Way back on my dads side, a great great great grandpa or something was a leader of the KKK somewhere. I think Indiana.

 

[tbo41fan]

interesting:

My Grand-Father who is Serbian is buried in Libertyville, Illinois...the same cemetary where the only European monarch to be buried on US soil is also...

The town where my Grandfather was born was one of the hardest hit areas during the Yugoslav wars in the 90's...he had rebuilt the church he attended as a boy in 1990, and that same church was the first thing bombed by the Croatians at the onset of the war


My Great-Grandfather (Grand-Mother's side) was a sailor in Hitler's navy---he was a minesweeper






I also went to the same high school that Alice Cooper graduated from. lmao

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

Me:
-I started getting gray hair while still in high school.

-I went to grade school with the niece of George Wendt (Norm from "Cheers")

Dad's side:
-Dad and my Uncle Jim were shipmates in the Navy in Korea

-Alzheimer's is very prevalent in his family (my grandma and Uncle Chuck had it and my Uncle Jim and Aunt Miriam have it)

-Grandpa at one point played semipro baseball

Mom's side:
-Was raised on a farm

-My maternal grandma, who was the only grandparent my sister and I ever knew (Mom's dad died when she was in high school and Dad's parents died when we were kids), died just a few days shy of her 99th birthday

-Mom began her teaching career in a one room schoolhouse in Iowa

-After getting her teaching certificate, Mom spent a few years as a civilian employee of the military, teaching Army brats in Berlin in the 60s

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

Most of my relatives on my mom's side are bigots.

 

[bobferg]

I'll play.

Dad's side.

The first born male on my dad's side is always shorter then the second born male. Hence my little brother being 6'4 and me being 5'10.

Dad's side was from Minnesota, but never enjoyed hunting. Only fishing.

50/50 mix of German and Norwegian, pretty standard for being from Minnesota.

Both of my grandpas were flyboys in the Air Force during the same time. They were just never stationed together.

Mom's side

My Grandma grew up in Wellsburg West Virginia where her family owned and operated a mountain top hotel. They also basically owned slaves, so my grandma is still kind of racist.

When they moved to the Chicago area (Oak Park) they moved into a house that was once owned by Ernest Hemingway.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Dad's side-

grandpa was an english professor, irish and german, great great great grandparents(something like that) came to america during the potato famine in ireland

grandma is italian/sicilian

my great grandfather immigrated here from sicily near the turn of the 20th century

i believe his great grandfather was a duke of sicily and owned a castle..but then they got kicked out lulz

both grandparents grew up in new york

Mom's side

grandfather is french,grew up in louisiana area...family is mostly french with some french-german roots(alace loraine)...1700s i think some of my grandfather's ancestors got a loan from king louis(dont ask which one cuz i have no clue)

my grandmother is the most interesting...she is pretty much every united kingdom country...she grew up in west virginia and tracing her family back..she had an ancestor(rather two ancestors) that were governors of virginia...and one signed the declaration of independence...but no we're not done here... one of the governor's blood line(not sure if it was paige or nelson, nelson was the one who signed the declaration of the independence) can be traced back to the plantaganets, the royal family of england in the middle ages, so i'm related to some king edwards and also king john(king richard the lion heart is my super great uncle) and then going even more back i think i'm related somehow to charlemagne...and eventually i get to mark antony(direct bloodline) and caesar(weren't they related?)

 

[Scoot26]

My family is pretty boring for the most part, other than a few family history tidbits, can't really think of much that would be that interesting.

My dads side: My last name, has been in America since the 1600s. They landed in New York before migrating to the Kentucky in the 1700s. Furthest west they went was Missouri, which they fled back to Illinois when the Civil War broke out.

My dads mother, they're Irish and came to America in the early 1800s. Several of them fought in the Civil War. My Great-great-great Grandfather was captured by Confederate soldiers but he and a few others escaped a prison camp and managed to find a way back to Illinois

My moms side; her fathers side is from Germany, they came here in the 1850's and have lived in southern Illinois pretty much the entire time. Her mothers side if from England and Sweden.

Don't seem to be related to anyone famous, atleast I have yet to find anyone.

 

[tbo41fan]

forgot to add...my grandfather (fought for Yugoslavia) was held in a Concentration camp during wwII

 

[Jysen]

Interesting: Im the only person on facebook with my name... I really dont know much in history. On my Fathers side, there are descendants that came by the Mayflower. His mother was pure Irish, father pure polish. Mothers side, which is pure Polish, isnt far here. In fact, I might be just the 4th or 5th at the latest gen. I wouldve liked to have known more with my name and history, but whatever lol

 

[bobferg]

I'll play.

Dad's side.

The first born male on my dad's side is always shorter then the second born male. Hence my little brother being 6'4 and me being 5'10.

Dad's side was from Minnesota, but never enjoyed hunting. Only fishing.

50/50 mix of German and Norwegian, pretty standard for being from Minnesota.

Both of my grandpas were flyboys in the Air Force during the same time. They were just never stationed together.

Mom's side

My Grandma grew up in Wellsburg West Virginia where her family owned and operated a mountain top hotel. They also basically owned slaves, so my grandma is still kind of racist.

When they moved to the Chicago area (Oak Park) they moved into a house that was once owned by Ernest Hemingway.

I forgot to say, my fake uncle on my mom's side (Grandma's sister's husband) traced my dad's side all the way back to Leif Erickson..... But who knows how much he can be believed, he put a bullet through his brain in his full Navy dress whites a week after his wife died.

 

[Uman85]

My dad went to college with Tony Esposito.

 

[Iwritecode]

The day I was born I had 4 grandmas and 3 grandpas. Four were related to me by blood and 3 by marriage. My mom's dad and my dad's dad had gotten divorced and remarried. My dad's mom had also remarried. One died when I was really young so I don't remember him at all but the others were alive all through my childhood and into my teenage years. Only 1 is still alive today.

I also had a great-grandpa when I was born. He died when I was about 5 or 6. It was 2 days after his 100th b-day.

My dad was adopted by his step-father when he was 13 and took his last name.

My dad had a son when when was 17 who was eventually adopted by my grandma. So technically he's my half-brother but legally he's my uncle. Maybe he's my bruncle?

My grandpa had my dad when he was 16. 32 years later he had another son (my uncle). I was born 2 days before my uncle's 1st b-day. We ended up graduating high school together. Hardly anyone knew we were related though because we have different last names.

If my dad wouldn't have taken his step-dad's last name my first, middle and last name all would've had 4 letters each.

The first letters of my kids, my wife and my first names are JKLMN. We didn't even realize this until we were trying to come up with a name for our 3rd kid. She's the L.

As far as family history or being related to anyone famous? No clue. I've traced some of my family history to the early 1800's and into a few surrounding states like Iowa or Indiana and even over the Pennsylvania. I haven't been able to determine when any of my ancestors actually came into the country though.