My ancestor thought of The Enlightenment. What has yours done?

Answer 1

he wrote this down?

Mine probably went
hahahahaha
to yours and kept on farmin'.

Answer 2

I have a dichotomy in mine. My mother had a French Huguenot ancestor and is direct descendant of a first cousin of Martin Luther.
My father's Irish ancestors some were green and some orange. My grandmother corresponded with a relative in Ireland for many years and one of the family's marriages was to direct descendant of Pope Paul III, ahem a contemporary of Martin Luther.

Answer 3

Well half of my ancestors took over the world and the other half were decapitated for trying. I had one ancestor that protested taxes naked on horseback. Several queens and kings. One queen had three full breast I guess that explains why I have a third nipple and a fused kidney. If the true aristocracy was restored I would be Queen of all of Europe.(That's a scary thought.) I have two U.S. presidents and one major revolutionary traitor to our country. One painter that painted the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I just hope this sort of thing is not genetic, because I am in big trouble if it is. My ancestors got around a lot just be thankful yours was relatively normal.

Answer 4

One of mine was Queen of France and England, and another was Holy Roman Emperor. Add in great-granddad's cousin who was an author who is credited with the fall of Napoleon III, the creation of the Third Empire and democracy in France. When he died, he had a state funeral under the Arc d'Triomphe and is buried under the Pantheon.

But that's just on my mom's side.

Dad's side had a bunch of mid-level Prussian soldiers, servants to Napoleon during the winter he spent in Poland, and an uncle with a good imagination who spun all that into stories of disinherited debutantes and deposed princes who fought in the American Revolution. I was glad he died before I found the truth.

Answer 5

Well, my ancestor thougth to come down from the trees and walk upright in the East African savannah. I'd say humanity owes me some kind of pension or something.

Answer 6

Hey Platobeenz,

My Ancestors did everything there has been to do good and bad. So have yours, you just have not learned that yet. This is really true, and I don't have to know you to say that. The massive quantity of people that contribute to who you are, there had to be wars, murder, theft, adultry, etc. There also had to be beauty, art, music, temperance, tolerance and betterment of man.

Answer 7

One of my ancestors was public hangman in an African country during the halcyon days of Empire.

Answer 8

My ancestor was the 52nd generation to Queen Elizabeth until she was shunned for marring outside the "box".

Answer 9

Most of mine were Jewish peasant farmers and draft dodgers in Czarist Russia. We do have one line that traces back to bastard Danish royalty, though. Charming group of ancestors I have.

Answer 10

That's nothing to be proud of. The Enlightenment was the opposite of enlightened

Answer 11

My ancestors were surgeons to Robert the Bruce, so neh!!