2007-09-26 15:41:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Lebanon
Wow! I love all of these stories!
There are a few things that I find fascinating in my family's history. My maternal grandfather can trace his ancestry to King Edward I of England (and of course, back from him...).
Then my maternal great grandmother was half native Mohawk...my grandmother has great stories about her Mohawk grandmother travelling from the New England part of the country to the Midwest...I just find that stuff so interesting...
2007-09-27 07:12:47 · update #1
Yes, my grandfather as a young man used to run numbers for a local "family" man. He said that one day, Al Capones boys picked him, rode him around the block and told him if he didn't stop running numbers for this guy, next time he got in this car would be his last. He got a new job the next day. Also, one of my cousins was in the "Chicago 8".
Remember, I know people and I got my eye on youse guys.
2007-09-26 16:22:21 · answer #1 · answered by Marty 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes,.. for me is fascinating, that a young 18 years old mother travelling in a ship during 2 months, with her 4 years old son, to arrive to an unknown country, without knowing the language, scaping from the otomans ( turkish, the same that Aussie says ), that have invaded her country (Lebanon), was able to build a new life for her and her son, created a new family, and died surrounded and loved for a big family.
More, that in Marseille, France, when the ship made a stop, they had several hours to see the city, and she decided to take her son to visit the Zoo. Another girl from the same village that was in the same ship went with them, but in some moment they lost the kid. They needed help from the authorities to look for the boy b4 the ship leave the port.
He has been all the times looking the monkeys, bcoz as he never had seen one b4, was fascinated with them.
As you can guess.....the lady in the story was my granny, and the boy, my dad, in their trip to South America.
2007-09-27 01:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by حلاَمبرا hallambra 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes there is scandal with my heratige,
I seems as thought my grandfather either had an affair or was married before marrying my grand mother and he MAY have had my father out of wedlock , but my grandmother raised my father as her own, nobody want to talk about it. they are very tight lipped. Who was this woman? Is this why my dad alsways felt like the black sheep? Also My aunt my not be my aunt she is also a mystery relative noone will answerwhere she "came from"
2007-09-26 15:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by rxing 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lets see.....
Frank and Jessie James are my, i believe, 4th cousins. We actually have family photos of them.
My dad's side of the family are Cherokee Indians. Yes just like the "cowboys and Indians". If anyone is familiar with American history. The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their homes and walk to another area several hundred miles away. Most died during the walk due to the bitter cold. Today its known as "the trail of tear". My grandfather, when he was alive, would tell us story's that were passed down to him about the Cherokee Indians.
2007-09-27 02:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by Hayz's Peach - أماندا & حسن 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes , how nice of you to ask....
My grandmother was the only one of her immediate family to survive the Armenian massacres that occurred in Turkey early last century ...you know the ones that the Turkish Government say never happened !
She was eventually repatriated to the UK where she completed her education , Nursing training & eventually joined her Uncle & his family in Lebanon.
What is also interesting is that she was a committed Christian , worked in a Presbyterian Mission Hospital in el Mina ,Tripoli & married a Muslim !
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction !
edit...Gh ...I don't think so !
2007-09-26 16:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have heard on several occasions that my great, great,great, granfather invented the windmill in his homeland of holland, but I have not ever had that proven to me, although I can remember my grandmother when I was a young child talking about it, so that is kinda fascinating to me.
2007-09-26 15:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by doc 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My late father was a genealogist , and found one of my ancestors to be Pocahontas, daughter of Emperor Powhatan.
She lived 1595 – 1617. I am 1/3 American Indian.
2007-09-26 16:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by DagNaggit limpuladerfy II 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
My great great grandfather founded Swinney Switch. I'm rather proud of that.
I'm also completely mesmerized by my Czechoslovakian blood. I absolutely love that part of my heritage.
2007-09-26 15:52:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My grand father was a diplomat and brought my grand mother here from Spain.
And my grand mother's family has an oil or wine ( can't remember which) business there in Spain. I think they sold it though. it was Gonzales Bias (not sure on spelling)
2007-09-26 15:51:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
well on my grandmaws side my family was vikings and they were so mean that france kicked them out the country so they went to nova scotia and they didnt want them either so they made a small piece of land that they were allowed to stay on no where else.. they were just mean ppl i guess this was back in like 1700 i guess :)
2007-09-26 16:05:42 · answer #10 · answered by Halawa 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋