What is the most interesting or unique story you have about your ancestors?

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one of mine, in england, invented a torture device known as skevingtons daughter.

My ancestors fought in the Civil War on both sides. God, i hope i am from the Northern side.

um i have awesome sex heritage..... nz is the country which has the most sex, holland is 2nd and i'm half nz and half dutch

i'm a horny whore!

Well if you mean about long since gone family tree people i guess i could say my very very very very .............................. great uncle was Robert Burns (A famous Scottish poet) than he wrote a LOT of famous poems....

One side of my family tree were run out of Scotland because they were horse thieves. Then they got run out of Ireland, then the east coast of the U.S. They finally settled in Chicago and opened a famous department store chain. I guess they gave up stealing horses.

my ancestors are very rich. there is so much land in the city.
which is not there now,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

in the 1630s ( yes, sixteen thirties)
a young girl won a prize for raising
more chickens than anyone else
in town (in New England).
The prize was a blanket.

I don't know much about My parents. He is a Canadian from Estevan in Saskatchewan. (I spelled it all by Myself) She is/was English and now lives in L.A.

I heard that a female forefather (foremother?) was the last person to be executed for witchcraft at Lancaster Castle.

Also distantly related to a certain Paget who was one of the six to survive the 'Charge of the Light Brigade'. My theory is that he was so terrified, that he rode faster than the rest of the 600. Whatever, he is possibly the person named as 'Flashman' in the Flashman novels. A coward, seducer and all in all 'a bit of a lad'. Upper class of course - 'noblesse oblige'.

My grand father used to pray to a small copper plate which is about100yrs old and given to him by somebody.He was under the impression that the inscription on the plate is some religious thing. It happened for years, one fine morning my brother who was cleaning the praying items cleaned the plate and to our surprise it was nothing but a name written on it with some office address.we sold it to scrap dealer and got three rupees. such a foolish innocent people.(because of illiteracy)

Well my last name is an important word used today in many ways from Latin and in old it had an important meaning as well. We can not find the root of its origin.

Don Vito Corleone was actually born ... Vito Andolini "in" Corleone Sicily whose youngest son Micheal rose to obtain controlling shares of, Immobiliare and consequently the Vatican Bank.

Bet you didn't know God was"Connected" ... He's a "friend of ours". "no no no, not God per say, the Pope".

Mine is fairly dramatic. Two or three generations past my father's father. One of the men in my family ( the town reprobate ) was accused of rape and his brother ( a pillar of the community ) defended him. He was found innocent, only to have his brother shot in the back on Main Street after the trial. No one was ever arrested for his murder, and the entire family soon moved out of the state. How 'Old West' is that?

A fairly recent skeleton concerning my father, R.I.P.
He was ex Royal Navy and used to say, jokingly, I might seem pleasant, but I know can be a bit of a b@st@rd!
After he died, I started doing his Family Tree - had problems finding his Parent's Marriage Certificate, eventually, it turned up - they had married when Dad was 12 years old in 1918!
I started to dig a little deeper and found his father had married in 1888 and had a son, but had forgotten to get divorced. So it was a bigamous marriage - the happy couple had lied their socks off to the Registrar and my Dad really was "a bit of a b@st@rd"!
Wish I'd done it all a bit earlier - Dad would have loved it!!
And one for the grandchildren to boast about one day, that their Gramps had designed the electronics for the compaction machine which had enabled the production of Viagra!!

I could say that my sister, our mom, her mom were all school teachers, that my mom made her state's Who's Who, an uncle made the national Who's Who, that at least 3 of the passengers on the Mayflower were ancestors, that my grandfather rode with Red Cloud, that I am a descendant of Charlemagne, but I find it much more interesting that I have been able to trace my ancestors to all over Europe (including Greenland), Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Armenia and Morocco and Native Americans by paper trail. Through DNA, I have extended it to Jamaica, Mexico, South America, Polynesia, Japan, the Philippines, China, Australia and South Africa and other African countries.
So, my question is: how can people be so anti-whatever? I have no doubt that if everyone could trace their ancestry, they would be as mixed as I am; a regular mongrel (and Yes, my ancestors included Monguls). There were Catholic bishops, protestant reformers, Ashkenazi Jews; there were farmers, carpenters, shipbuilders, ship's captains, miners, printers; several died in war, including my mom's grandfather at Andersonville. One, a descendant of French royalty, died in France fighting for the English...against Joan of Arc!
Life is so interesting are varied! We are all brothers and sisters!

Two ancestors, father and son, on my maternal grandad's side fought on the American side at the Battle of Cowpens, a pivotal battle in the American Revolution. The son received a sword wound to the head that left his brain exposed. His father, a surgeon on the field who was attending both sides melted British silver coins and patched his skull with the silver. He survived to become a physician himself and of course have descendants.

That's just one story. I have a lot of intersting people and deeds in my family history.

My ancestors are so hard to trace because I'm not really sure what our last name is. While researching the name Cockrum (my fathers name) we ran into a dead end. I'm not really sure about it but the story goes that one of my ancestors name was really John Mills and that he came over from England from debtors prison. Once he arrived in the states, he killed a man. While on the run, he took up with a family as a hired hand and took their last name (Cockrum) to hide his identity. I don't really know if it's true or not so I'm really confused. The last name Cockrum is Welsh from Cockerham. We have traced the name to Wales but I'm not really sure if that's my name or not. My mom's maiden name is Spencer. It's Welsh and we are supposed to be distantly related to Princess Di (aka Diana Spencer)!