In 1940, my aunt and her bf poisened and killed her husband(my uncle) and hid his body in a grain silo. People started asking where he was. After a few days, my aunt's bf took the dead body from the grain silo and placed it in the pasture, thats when my aunt called the police. They never suspected murder. The police report says he died of over exertion and my aunt and her bf lived happily ever after. They both died in 1985. I found out about this from family tree research and read my uncles obituary in the news paper from 1940. So, I am related to a woman who was cheating on her husband and murdered him and got away with it. Great.........
2007-01-14 17:42:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Christina Pryharski- my mothers family came over to America in one of the first of 6 ships to dock in Mass. Habour! We COULD be related!
I have many awesome relatives; I could never live up to their accomplishments...
My Great Uncle was in "Who's Who in America" for Education in the 1960's and same side of family (Finnish side) my Great Aunt's Brother, Albin Kaasinen was a very famous Artist (Wooden Carvings) and is Featured in The Finnish Museum of Art, his carvings are very valuable and my family possess many of them, I have two that I treasure.
On my mother’s side, my Grandmother was the Genealogist for the Mormon Church (I am not Mormon) she traced our family directly back to first cousin of Queen Elizabeth of England.
My own father invented the wire Granulation System- which he sold the patent in the '70's. He also was a pioneer in encouraging the general public to save and collect Aluminum soda cans in the mid '70's when they stopped making them out of steel, he was a metallurgical engineer and had an aluminum smelting plant in which his sole buyer was RJ Reynolds Tobacco, his aluminum was used for Reynolds Wrap Foil though, not smokes.
My Uncle by marriage developed a vehicle called the Xeno car in the early 70's that ran on a Gyro, however the big motor companies (Ford, Chevy, etc) threatened him and my father if they ever brought it to market (because it got 60 miles per gallon). My father purchased the patent for sole ownership to develop. He, with my oldest (Genius) son were just starting to build a prototype and bring in investors when the proposed business plan was released. However, my father died from a brain tumor 3 months after diagnosis (in 2002 @ age 59) and never got to realize his dream- He and my son would have been very famous. I am still proud though.
2007-01-14 18:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by Mt ~^^~~^^~ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing too unusual in my immediate ancestry. I was born in and live in England. My father is English and my mother is Scottish-American. My great-great-grandfather was the illegitimate son of a girl who was about sixteen or seventeen when she gave birth. I haven't yet found out who the father of this relationship was.
On my mother's American side, I'm related to George Bush (he's my tenth cousin once removed) and Abraham Lincoln through several lines. The Lincoln family lived in the same village as my ancestors during early American history, and the villagers inbred a lot so I have a lot of Lincoln connections. George Bush, believe it or not, is not a Texan. His family comes from New England, like my mother's family. Since most New Englanders are descended from the early inhabitants somehow or other, I'm distantly connected with most people who live in that part of the United States.
If you go back far enough, I have some interesting ancestors. The latest English monarch I'm descended from is Edward III and the latest Scottish monarch, William I "the Lion". I'm also descended from the Prophet Muhammad through the medieval Spanish royal family, through a princess who married into the English royal family. For more details on these ancestors, see my web page:
http://klausjames.tripod.com/royal.html
Interestingly enough though, since many of these medieval royal families had bizarre claims of lines of descent going back to Adam and Eve, or to Woden, or Zeus or other mythical descents, I too can incorporate these into my family tree. After all, I didn't invent them. These lines are the creation of medieval genealogists. If you take it with a pinch of salt, such mythical lines of descent are fun and make genealogy interesting.
2007-01-14 22:27:29 · answer #2 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't feel bad, my family has Mafia ties all the way back to Palermo, and they weren't ever here until the 1900s. Plus, if you think about it, Australia was settled by convicts that England sent away. So I guess that means that every true Aussie has ancestors with a criminal history, if that history is indeed true. I get a lotta crap for my last name because apparently it's "gangsta," and I'm not, so don't sweat it. You know there are a lot of German descendants living here whose great uncles were Nazis, etc. That's the great thing about the U.S.A.--it's the cultural melting pot and nobody really cares unless you're some kind of ignoramus skinhead who is living back 2 centuries ago and trying to apply it to 2007. That sucks, but just change your last name to Falangi. Hahahaha!
2007-01-14 20:57:08 · answer #3 · answered by babyshark2005 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My family's claim to fame is my great-great-grandfather was
on a team that won the world Tug-a-war championship. My great-great-grandfather was the oldest man on the team, being 60 years old. The team was a group of farmers who were big burly strong men. They were the last group of people ever to win this.
My family is trying to track down what ever happened to the
trophy, which we believe end up somewhere in the U.S.A.
The other claim to frame, is my family is related to the Black
Donnell's, which was a family of murders I have been told they are cousins or cousins twice removed or something to that effect, but I don't know much more about them then what I have been told by my father....(if this is true, nice to thing to be associated with, eh?!!!)
I'm sure there is more to my family, but Its been very hard to
research since no one ever knows where we all came from !
Its nice to hear about other peoples familys, good question to put out there !
2007-01-14 23:32:30 · answer #4 · answered by renton_scotsgirl 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes! My grandpa was in the navy and was put on watch of a certain room. He began talking to the man and found out that the man that they had to keep special watch on was Ira Hayes, the Native American who was the man who raised the first flag. At that same post he met Shirley temple. Also, my uncle is Phillip T Barnum, the nephew of P.T Barmun or Barnum and Bailey Circus. And I have a spoon that was actually used on the Mayflower and my family came over on the Third ship after that.
2007-01-14 18:28:52 · answer #5 · answered by beachbabe140 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The outlaw Jesse James is my great great great uncle. His sister Susan James is my great great great grandmother. There are pictures passed through the generations, but a lot of older kin didn't ever discuss the connection to Jesse James...it was very taboo! I was talking to a friend once about my GGG Uncle and I found out he was related to him as well! Small world!!
2007-01-15 06:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by Lilyisbeautiful 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Errr, on my mother's side, my grandmother was the first Miss Puerto Rico, who ran off and eloped with my grandfather, a very well-known singer/composer, Bobby Capo(Was known in entire Latin America and even the US [The scene in Nacho Libre when they are at the party and Jack Black sings a song with the mariachis, that song was made famous by my grandfather]). On my father's side, My great great grandfather, Luis Munoz Rivera, was one of the politicians that collaborated in the process of separation of Puerto Rico from Spain and his son, Luis Munoz Marin, was the first elected governor of this island and made Puert Rico a commonwealth. Both have schools, streets, avenues, and parks named after them. My paternal grandmother was a well-known dramatist and her father was a prestigious lawyer from Corsica.
As you can see, people expect a lot out of the younger generations in my family. :S
2007-01-14 19:59:34 · answer #7 · answered by Alula 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My great great grandpa William Bretz founded a town in southern Indiana called Bretzville.
2007-01-14 17:50:48 · answer #8 · answered by Fisher 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-20 00:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by chowning 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My great-grandma cheated on her husband in Louisiana and then took off to Arizona with her son and daughter. My great-grandpa couldn't handle it and was put in an asylum. We just found out about it last year when my parents went to visit long lost relatives in Louisiana......skeletons in our closet
2007-01-14 17:47:59 · answer #10 · answered by jabbergirl 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋