Have you looked into you Ancestry and found anything really interesting?

Question

please tell more cause Im nosey

Answer 1

Tons of stuff I am related to Ulysses Grant (US President), the hope diamond belonged to a distant cousin, and I am related to the King of Spain centuries ago... (Philip)...my grandma went way way far back into our genealogy as you can tell!

Answer 2

yeah

I have Aztec blood

Answer 3

Yeah! Contrary to general belief i`m not a b@sterd! And i`m a very distant relative of the ex-princess diana.

Answer 4

I found that some people publish family trees that are plain wrong or guesswork, but these are taken as gospel by other people who don't check the research.

When I linked in with the LDS "one world tree" I was apparently related to loads of US presidents and famous Americans mainly because someone "assumed" that Mary Knight, my ancestor from England MUST BE the same person as Mary Knights who lived in the US at the same time.

Having said that I have found stuff about my family that no one knew - like where they lived and what they were employed as. I have then visited these places (some of them). It makes you feel really close to them. Some of their lives were awful - by our standards. Desperate poverty and squalor, early death for infants and other children and yet they made a go of it. One of my relatives I found out last week emigrated with his whole family to Canada in 1902 when he and his wife were 50. They set up new homes and lived into their 90's in Victoria B.C. Inspiring stuff! I don't know if I'd dare do that.

Answer 5

Yes, i'm of royalty....so my history tells me! Mostl likely one of the kings mistresses ofspring!! HA!!!!

Answer 6

my moms dad is italian

Answer 7

I found out that my ancestor was one of the king's tutors in the Ryukyujou of Okinawa, the Ryukyu age. My ancestors also came from a distant land, which made my last name, "Mouth that Traveled Over", mouth meaning language. My father is Okinawan and my mother is from Nagasaki, I found that on my mothers side, my ancestor was a very highly respected samurai that was one of the guards of a shogun. Also on my mothers side, her ancestors used to protect Christians that came over. I found all this while I lived in Japan, so that is my only "proof". I'm sorry if my English is bad. I'm still learning. :(

Answer 8

Yep they all died!

I'm gonna try to avoid that at all costs!

Answer 9

I've found quite a few things, and believe if you keep looking, you'll find plenty. Just as you may have a great story, some of those who came before you have great stories.

1) My husband and sons are the direct descendants of many kings and queens.

2) My husband and sons are the direct descendants of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower

3) I am the 9th cousin of my husband ... even though we were born states apart, and our names are not similar.

4) My maternal gr-gr grandparents came over from England on an open boat that was 30 days on the water.

5) One of my maternal gr-gr grandmother's sister's died in "White Slavery"

6) My husband and sons are the direct descendants of a family of royal musicians

7) My husband's direct ancestors lived in a tree (large!) while building there home

8) My paternal gr-gr grandparents came over with the shirts on their backs, though my gr-gr grandfather was once a Slovakian/Hungarian messenger to the government. The family worked in the mines of La Salle County, Illinois until they saved enough to buy a farm/apple orchard in Jackson Co, MN.

Etc, etc. Keep digging  ... you will find gold! ;) :p

Answer 10

Yes and no.

Answer 11

Suicides, gold diggers, rum runners, but mostly farmers. I like history so I love to find my ancestors, therefore my personal history.

I would be furious to find out I came from a royal family and someone lost the ball to the point where I'm barely middle class. How stupid could they be. Slaves come to America as other people's property and came out better than middle class. That's something to be proud of.

LDS information is basically worthless.

Answer 12

I have learned that we modern people are generally spoiled brats.

Answer 13

My 1st great-grandfather was born in 1861, during the American Civil War and his father, my 2nd great-grandfather, died in 1863, during the American Civil War.

Not all that interesting.

But, that fact that my 2nd great-grandmother had 3 more children (born in 1865, 1867, & 1870) after her husband died and gave all of them his last name, certainly is, considering she did not remarry!

My guess is, she found a way to supplement the family income, after her husband died.

Answer 14

On my fathers side i am an Assyrian, we have a 600 year old family tree written in Aramaic, the language of the Assyrians.

The Assyrians descend from the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians.

My great uncle fought the Turks in WW1, leading our clan. He was a bit of a psychotic unfortunately...he killed many Turks, Arabs and Kurds in WW1(Assyrians, as Christians were fighting alongside the Brits, and for independence), but also killed his wife and daughters becase his wife was cheating, and was found half dead next to a bear by Turkish soldiers, which he had killed with a knife! We have old newspaper cuttings of it.

My mothers side, nothing so dramatic....Welsh, Irish and English blood, but tracking the English side right back, i have discovered it was actually Danish/Viking, and not English at all.!

Answer 15

I discovered I am related to Amelia Earhart (or however you spell it), one of the first female aviators.

Answer 16

one grandad was Swedish,grandmother Scottish of Irish parents.

cant find other grandmother till the 1911 census comes out in 2012.did find out my father was illegitimate