whats the most interesting thing you' ve found about your family in doing Genealogy.?

Answer 1

The most interesting thing I've discovered thus far...

Hmmm...

That would have to be the fact that my 9th-great-grandfather, John Poyer, mayor of Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1648, defended the castle against Oliver Cromwell during Wales' 2nd Civil War. He lost. Shot by firing squad. Oh, well. :)

Answer 2

Verified--An ancestor, John Macquarrie, who was born in Eigg, Scotland (one of the Inner Hebrides) fought at the Battle of Cullodeen and was subsequently tried and sentenced to transportation aboard a prison ship, the Pamela. He ended up in Reddies River, Wilkes, North Carolina.

Unverified most interesting bit--I'm a descendant of the Stuart kings of Scotland along with Robert the Bruce on both my mother and dad's side of the family. If I go back far enough, I also find the same ancestors on both sides of the family.

Answer 3

I've been amazed at what I found about my family just by Googling every name I've found. What's really weird is my maternal grandmother's family has been waring with my maternal grandfather's family for over 700 years (different branches, different names). One side actually ordered the beheading of the other. It's weird how eventually these people who have hated each other for hundreds of years, actually came together and merged into one family. Family is still always fighting amongst themselves, but what the heck... we're taking baby steps.

And my most favorite place in the Caribbean, Bathsheba Barbados, was actually owned by an ancestor of mine. He was accused of murdering his lovers husband and then marrying her though. I didn't find this out until after I fell in love with the place. I could see why he loved it so much.

Answer 4

My G-father was a Police Officer in 1920. He was murdered in his own kitchen by my G-mothers Lover. The entire thing was published in the Leominster, Ma. newspaper. I've got the whole thing, down to the clothing he had on, the weather that day ect. It reads like an old B&W movie.
So then the guy gets life, and 13 yrs later the Gov. of Ma. PARDONS him. I'm still tryin' to find out why. I think he got PAYOLA!!! Ha!
I still have an Uncle who is living, HE WILL NOT TALK ABOUT IT!!!
What a HOOT this is. I love it!!!!

Answer 5

When I was a wee girl in elementary school my grandmother told me, oral history, of our family generation by generation back to colonial times. She told me were were nobody important, just farmers. Sure, sometimes a farmer had to take up weapons for a while. Everyone did back then.

More than 50 years later when I "took up genealogy" I finally got past recent brick walls, at last remembered all she told me. And sure enough, she was exactly correct in all names and places, all farmers, nobody important.

She had also pointed out that famous painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, said it was just a painting, but that an ancestor was there to get him across. He sure was, he and his brother were both among Washington's bodyguards, and knew the river well. So I have an ancestor depicted on every US "New Jersey quarter".

(And that's just one story of many.)

Answer 6

I have discovered that my great great grandfather is a very hard man to find. My grandmother gave me his name many times over the years, but we can find absolutely no records of him to this date. This includes military, paper, internet.... nothing. Its a puzzle I am having fun figuring out.

The other neat thing... her family is where the town of Vance in AL got its name.

Heh and all were very prolific... the families that had more than 7 kids are just as numerous as those that had 3 or less.

Answer 7

That my great great great grandfather was imprisoned in Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane for hitting his wife on the head with a scythe, nearly killing her. My great great grandfather was a magician and ventriloquist (i'd love to know what happened to his dummy) who comitted suicide by drowning. And that I am the 5th cousin of film star Julian Mcmahon.
How about you?

Answer 8

I have a murderer and horse thief in my family tree - a bent branch one might say.

Answer 9

Nothing as interesting as Jaymikal ? just g/grandparents were BIGAMISTS, they married each other first, then grandad married twice more and gran once more without divorce.