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My English ancestors were all agricultural labourers, but on my Belgian side, my Great-Grandfather was a musician and composer.

He has a street named after him, and plaques on the house where he was born, and the house he lived in with my grandfather!


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My English ancestors were all agricultural labourers, but on my Belgian side, my Great-Grandfather was a musician and composer.

He has a street named after him, and plaques on the house where he was born, and the house he lived in with my grandfather!

My family history is kind of crazy. It's so complicated that I probably wouldn't believe it if it weren't for me seeing documentation. I have 15 different ethnic backgrounds. I've descended from everything from Hawaiian kings, to Portuguese and Spanish ducal families, to English squires, to people who left Ireland in the potato famine, Jacobites, a Welsh sailor who was kidnapped by Hawaiians before becoming an adviser to he Hawaiian king, Mexican ranchers, Virginian plantation owners, Japanese who were plantation workers in Hawaii, Basque nationalists, Sephardic Jews (although I can't claim Jewish descent as it's not through an unbroken maternal line), North African Arabs, Captains in the British Navy, the first white baby born in Hawaii... I am pretty sure that I've covered everything. I know, it's not easy to believe, but I think if most people dig some digging, they'd find similarly unbelievable things. It's kind of cool though, there are places in England, the American South, Spain, Portugal, and Hawaii that have names from my ancestors and also some of them have wikipedia entries. Because a lot of my ancestors belonged to royal, noble, or wealthy families, there's a lot of documentation, and my Hawaiian genealogy is in chants and stuff, we know most of our European backgrounds to the Middle Ages, with a few gaps here and there. So it's nice to have all that information, and since I love history, I like to connect their births and deaths with what was occuring at the time. But the important thing to remember is that while it's great (and I think worthwhile) to know about our families' pasts, it's most important to be an outstanding person in your own life, rather than resting on the laurels of your ancestors.

im related to a clan of scottish highlanders. one of my distant relatives has a castle lol

I am descended from a syphllitic whore who was killed by jack the ripper.

my entire family has had at least one member in each generation in the military dating all the way back to ancient germany.


HOOAHH!

yeah.. my geneology, was from the royal family before the Dutch came and destroy our kingdom and it has been 7 generations passed...

too bad all the treasure was kept hidden.

I'm apparently related to the founder of Yellowstone National Park.

1st cousin 4 times removed, Henry Dainton, was hung for the murder of his wife in 1891.

One of my ancestors, Philip Mulkey, was a Baptist preacher that got excommunicated from the church because he was "guilty of a number of enormous crimes, such as adultery, perfidy and falsehood, which have been attended with very aggravating circumstances".

One of my ancestors was an indentured servant on the Mayflower, one was of Slavic origin and a mercenary in the Revolutionary War (family legend, no positive proof), and although not a direct line ancestor I am related to President Millard Fillmore. I have ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War (my father is from North Carolina, my mother from Ohio/Michigan). I have a great-great grandfather who supposedly suffered from amnesia, went to work one morning and never came back. My great grandfather dropped out of school at nine or ten to go to work and help support the family.

300 years or 10 generations ago, you had over 1000 grandparents.

600 years or just 20 generations ago you had over 1,000,000 grandparents.

You (as are the rest of us) are related to not only royalty, but virtually everyone.