I thought this would be a pretty good topic since I haven't seen any remotely similar to it (aside from the state your famous relatives thread ) so I'll go first. |
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Things are not as they seem
^How relevant. This isn't senseless banter Mystery...please post serious information...I'm genuinely intrigued as to where you all come from. |
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Things are not as they seem
My grandfathers grandfather was a full-blooded Jew living in Germany when Hitler rose up. During the time when his people were oppressed and Jew's were encouraged to leave the country, (encouraged being a very light word for it,) he changed his name to a non-Jewish one and feld to America. (Jewish people weren't really wanted in America at the time.) |
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Paul is Dead
Fathers side. |
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I've never really studied up on my family history, some family members have but I've never asked them about anything really. I do know dating back to the Civil War times though I was kin to a guy that lived around here that appearently was really mean while he lived during the war and after, and even after he was dead people were afraid to mention his name. A real life Voldemort! I'll try to look more into my history and edit the post later. |
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Now that's some interesting history Spockman! Yours as well Sandy. And I'm looking forward to hearing about yours nitusJ . Keep it coming guys. |
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Things are not as they seem
Well I don't know much about my mom's side. Her dad owned a liquor company and was pretty much a entreprenuer that made his fortune in the stock market and with other investments. She's mixed Welsh, Black Irish, German and English |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
On my mothers side we have General Custard |
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i don't know much about my family history because no one ever bothered to write stuff down. sorry. |
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Father's side... |
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my grandma was a child while she was fleeing germany, my great grandpa had been smart enough to keep moving through the citys because it took only a day after they left each city for it to be bombed. she fleed from the carpathen mountains al the way to the coast. to were they got on a boat and sailed to america. |
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22 DILD's
4 WBTB's
Total= 26!
There's so much that I don't know about my family but I recently found out that my dad's father's father (I state it this way for the obvious reason) served in WWI. I was able to locate his enlistment slip through public military records. He was 19. I wish there was more I knew about him because he's the reason why there's land being passed around in the family (no one wants to pay the land taxes, LOL). A bit of history about the land; it's in Jasper and Magnolia Springs, TX and is allegedly either a tract of Seminole or Caddo land. I'm light-skinned so I assume there's been some "race-mixing" in my family (I'm Black) but there's is nothing that I know for sure about who and when. One thing I've always fantasized about was being a descendent of Black Seminoles. It would be cool to be kin to an historic figure. Sadly, if I am actually a descendent, it's almost impossible to know because there are so few Black Seminole descendents left. Guess I'd better get that genealogy DNA test everybody's doing nowadays. |
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Last edited by Brainchild; 10-28-2008 at 04:16 AM.
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