ITT: Interesting family history

My family named the gastineau channel way back when, it's almost dryed up now
I have a cousin who played for the Jets in the 90's

>>3065255

I think I'm a descendant of this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_(surname)#William_Terrell_who_married_Susannah_Waters

my great g-ma's family had a large tobacco plantation in North Carolina and I tried to genealogy and went a few generations back on someone's mother's side along the way and got to the Terrells

also my great uncle was The Beatles pilot and then U2's pilot if that counts for anything

and my cousins' cousin is Chris Hadfield

oh and my great grandpa might have been chummy with Grace Kelly and Lucky Lucciano

John Paul II's helicopter flew over my uncle's house once

>>3065338
Do u live in Alaska?
>>3065355
>>3065365
Cool

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I'm Australian but for some reason I can trace my family back to very early Colonial Massachusetts

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peasants...peasants all the way back. i think my great grandpa was a rising star in the local chapter of the Yugoslav communist party before they kicked him out for speaking too candidly...either that or he left on his own when realized everybody was just using the party to steal anything that isn't bolted down I always forget the story...spent the rest of his life as a plumber

feels mediocre man

>>3065355

oh yeah the thing about the Terrells is that would make me a descendant of William the Conqueror

>>3065255
My family were blue veins and members of the J&Js who had more wealth than most white folks for the better part of 300 years.

Well one half, the other half were illiterate until two generations ago and farmers.

>>3065255
I'm only a quarter Jewish but i'm a descendant of this ancient Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder

He was most likely where Jesus got the golden rule from. Also my Grandpa, fought in Zionist militias alongside Menachem Begin.

>>3065255
My great-great-great grandma or some shit like that was the bastard daughter of one of the Grafs Kesselstadt, a (very) minor Rhenish noble.

>>3065676
You can trace your lineage to 110 BC?

>>3065255
>she has no reason to lie

>>3065389
what crime did they commit to get kicked out new england?

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>>3065255
I know jack shit about my family history pre-1700s and what I do know isn't very impressive

In general:
-Maternal grandfather's side were Swiss farmers who lived in Pennsylvania prior to moving to Ohio/staying there for 200 years
-Maternal grandmother's side mostly English-Scottish, lived in Virginia primarily, but also Maryland, DC, and New York, generally well-off
-Don't know anything about my paternal side (yet) other than that they were A. poor, B. almost entirely Irish, C. from Ohio

Also I'm 2-5% West Asian and I don't know where that's from

Pic related; my great great maternal grandfather I think (within one generation)

>>3065255
My family's claim to fame is that we're somehow related to the wife of Jesse James, but I dont know if its actually true.
We're also supposedly related to some people who were a big enough public nuisance that their whole town just gunned them down in the street one day.

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>tfw mestizo
>tfw known family history only goes back to great grandfathers

That being said, my paternal great grandfather and grandfather did some morally questionable things like turn on his people so his family could make it out alive. You see, communist in his country managed to convince the injuns that they were the best think since tortillas, unfortunately the Military took this as an excuse to waste any Injuns they saw.

So in order to avoid being genocided, Great Grandpa sought out the Army in his neck of the woods and made a deal. He tells and leads them were the commies are hanging out and him and his pueblo don't get removed, a bunch of dead communists and injuns later and his village didn't have that many neighbors anymore.

My dads side of the family has been staunchly anti-communist ever since, so here's the question guys, did my great grandpa dun goof?

>>3065676
No fucking way you can trace it that far

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>>3065255
Well my grandpa on my dad's side was in the 10th armored during the second world war. He would tell us about how he was surrounded in Bastogne with the 101st. Also he was a part of Task Force Baum which was the failed attempt to rescue Patton's son in law. I don't know how much of it is true or whatever, that's just what he told us before he died a few years back.

Also my Great Uncle on my mom's side died test flying a biplane in like 1919.

>rice farmers and charcoal salesmen on one side
>lutheran refugees on the other, with a dash of viking rapebaby
fug :-DD

>>3066107
>No fucking way you can trace it that far

I really can. Very very long line of prominent Rabbis, who meticulously preserved their lineages.

>>3065255
>Great great great grandfather on mom's was one of the original texas settlers
>Named after him

>great (x11) grand(uncle? I think) was on the Mayflower.
>was real young, moved back to England and then to the Bahamas
>dies of starvation with no kids
If there's any blood relation, it's extremely slim, but it's nice to imagine.

>>3066107
If he's Mizrahim, it's possible. According to Jewish tradition and law, NOTHING with Gods name on it can be burned, destroyed or disposed of.

>>3066204
So you're a Cohan/Cohen/Cohain is what you're telling /his/?

>>3066228
My last name is but i'm not considered one because my mother isn't Jewish. I have tons of pure Cohen cousins though, who are ultra-Zionist religious maniacs. Since they are Middle Eastern and have such a long history they are unapologetic about Israel being their homeland.

My Grandpapa fought the Japanese in the Red Army in 1939, later defected to the British and fought Rommel, Italians, and Vichy French in North Africa, fought the British as part of the Irgun post-war, Fought Arabs in the 1948/1956/1967/1973 Arab-Israeli Wars, and served as an adviser for the South Africans in Angola in the 1970s where he came into contact with Cubans.

He always joked about how he fought the Germans, Japanese, Italians, French, British, Arabs, Cubans, and Africans throughout his life.

>>3066242
>Since they are Middle Eastern and have such a long history they are unapologetic about Israel being their homeland.

how do they feel about the Palestinians?

I only know my family history of 2 or 3 generations...

fathers side:
>grandpa fought in ww2 as anti air support - no fighting
>his brother lost an arm during the war (don't know where)
>their father was a soldier in ww1 but it seems like he didn't see any action
>all of them and everyone before were farmers

mothers side:
>farmers or unimportant ppl
>house of my mothers grandparents got hit by a bomb in ww2, someone died (some relative)
>storys tell that hitler came by and shook hands - pictures where thrown away after the war because hitler was a bad guy

Wow now that I think about it my family's history is not that impressive and I can't trace it back that much but the former generations were a great family. Current 2 gens are meh...

>>3065255
>great grandpa who was a merchant had a brother who was a dentist
>got killed by partisans on accident, because "he looked like a german"
>fast forward a few years
>one night someone knocks on the door
>it's someone from the village
>he begs my great grandfather to pull out his rotten tooth because it hurts
>"listen, i'm not a dentist"
>"but your brother was a dentists, it must run in the family"
>"ok, but if something bad happens don't blame me"
>the lamp wasn't very powerful
>he took pliers
>and he started pulling
>he pulled out two healthy upper teeth and knocked out two lower ones in the process
>toldyouso.jpg

>>3066247
What's with goy always asking this on here?

I'm related to Abraham Lincoln on his mother's side. Ironically, I'm also related to John Wilkes Booth.

>>3065255
I am a son of God and will inherit the earth one day. I also inherited eternal life. Oh and my Father is adopting.

www.holytext.org/gospel

my kinsman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prek_Cali

>>3065255
Who else has nothing worth of mention here?
My ancestry is basically just a bunch of farmers, all from the same area, living there for hundreds of years probably.
At the same time, it is scary how quickly you can lose touch with your extended family. I stayed in South Africa for some time only to later find out that I had been living some 30 km away from some relatives of mine, who are descendants of my great-great-uncle who came there as a missionary.
Also got missionary relatives who went to Brazil and Suriname. And relatives in North America, of course, having living relatives in the USA is hardly avoidable.

So many descendants of adventurous relatives, I just stem from the branch that stayed-

I actually want to post few stuff but it is kinda dangerous for me lmao.

>>3065255
>grandfather survived a Jap POW camp and served under General Westerling as a special forces sniper
>opposed racism all his life, forgoing the family fortune for the sake of it and being declared persona non grata in South Africa

With all the shit he had seen and went through, nobody would have been surprised if he had become a bitter man. But even on his deathbed he was grateful for the life he had.

My other grandparents survived the Soviets and hopped the Iron Curtain, so that's nothing to sniff at, either. I've also got at least two old-timey sea captains among my ancestors. In general, my family has been pretty hardcore. Except for me.

>>3065355
Got any Beatles stories from your uncle?

>>3065778
You do what you have to do. I have no love for communists, though. They tried to kill my family a lot of times.

My grandfather once slapped the Christ-bothering side of the family hard. One of them was theory-crafting that if people had been "more Christian" during the war, shit would have been alright. Granddad told him to shut his big hole, and that if push came to shove and he had to feed his kids, he'd bash his neighbour's head in with a rock to do so. Because everyone would. That's human nature.

Given that granddad has actually been through the war, I trust his judgement.

So did he do the right thing? If you ask the commies, he probably didn't. But he survived, and they didn't, and that's the end of it.

>>3066549
this

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I've inherited a name all the way from a nobleman who led soldiers as a general in the 30 years war.

My ancestor game to America by prison barge after a Jacobite war.

Nothing really changed, most of my family are still drunks and criminals.

>Nobility in France
>French revolution happens
>Flee to the Netherlands
>Be me in the Dutch lowerclass
The nobility and their riches are still alive and well, but they never liked my grandmother (who was on the nobel side) so I got cucked in the long run.

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>>3065255
>>great (x5 or 6) grandfather was brothers with an Afghan king
>(x5 or 6)
you are idiot.

On my mothers side I am related to the scientist Andrew Cross, who did lots of experiments in the 19th century about electricity. He is also apparently the person that Mary Shelley based DR Frankenstein on in her novel.

On my dads side its butchers all the way back.

>>3065255
Inherited surname and name from Danish kangz

Can trace my family to a petty count who employed around a hundred people on his manor at the turn of 16th century Norway.

Wouldn't surprise me that my line is the result of him fucking maids and prostitutes.

I live in sweden but my great great something grandpa was apparently some prominent socialist in Denmark. I know no details but grandma is proud as fuck about it

>>3066837
>16 century
Generation - 25 years. 2017-1567 = 450. 450/25 = 18. 2^18 = 262144.
Do you know all your 252144 ancestors of 16 century?

>>3066955
No I don't. But I can still trace my surname specifically to that person through church ledgers and population census.

My great great grandmother was a village healer practising prechristian skills and beliefs,stuff like telling the future from dreams.

She decided not to teach her daughter how it's done and the skill died with her

>>3066683
It's more than you faggot

>>3067153
Where do you guys live now?

>>3067268
Well, not that shithole for sure. Maybe if it calms down in twenty or thirty years I'll visit kabul but not likely, might go somewhere safe like panjshir or herat even sooner idk

>>3065255
I'm related to these, they opened a bank in my town which later merged with Barclays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhouse%27s_Bank

Mostly a bunch of farmers and merchants. Most relevant guy was a great uncle who was in charge of the ESMA during the dirty war, not really someone I like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War?wprov=sfla1

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Blood relative of Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House back in the 20s. Probably still better known for being TR's son-in-law.

My great grandfather (father's side) fought in the battle of Guadalcanal and my great grandmothers parents were involved with the mob. My grandparents on my mom's side lived under Jap occupation. Ancestry.com also said that I'm related to Abe Lincoln, but I dunno about that.

>>3067153
There was a 10 feet giant, he was my (x5)grandfather. Or (x6). Not sure, i dont know about x2, x3, x4, but he was.
Can you understand pathetic stupidity of your sentence?

>It's Poland, 1968
>Be my mom, 12 yo girl scout
>Take part in a scout trip to southern frontier, Carpathia mountains
>Stay in a hostel next to a main road to Czechoslovakia
>Comfy.jpg
>It's evening, and suddently, you hear loud roars
>So loud, you can't sleep
>WhatTheFuckIsGoingOnISwearToGod.png
>The same, violent noise whole night
>Next morning, still same
>You finally go out to look what's happening
>You see a massive column of Soviet tanks and trucks, moving on the road to Czechoslovakia
>They've been moving whole night
>Find out from the radio, that there was a rebellion in Prauge, and big brother Soviet intervened, sending forces from whole Warsaw Pact to squash "nazi reactionists"

This guy was my maternal Grandpa's cousin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lucey
My Paternal Grandpa testified before Congress as a victim of some sort of Union scam.

>>3066225
>seemingly permissable

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>>3065255
My Grandfather was a draft dodger during WW1 who ran away to Ireland to escape having to join the war. In the end got caught and spent 6 months in prison though.

Thanks Granddad.

my grandfather worked for the communist party in the 1960's as an electrical engineer, my great-grandfather was a major ROC army during the chinese civil war.

>>3067712
No, fuck off

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Karl_von_Scheele
>German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Scheele
>Carl Wilhelm Scheele (9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist. Isaac Asimov called him "hard-luck Scheele" because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit. For example, Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine before Humphry Davy

Got a lot to live up to, but so far haven't amounted to anything.

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My greatgranduncle was the first commander of Red cavalry after the Bolshevik coup.

There is printed record of him going to meet Lenin - kitted out in full tsarist regalia, spurs and shiny medals and all, and Lenin telling him to keep wearing those, as he had earned them.

Dude was later a commander of an infantry division during the Civil war, the neighbouring division was commanded by Chapaev - which is a character anyone from the former Warsaw pact will know. Apparently Chapaev stole bacon from him one morning.

Pic related - him during the Civil war. Note the extremely silly early Red uniform.

>>3065255
You descend through the female line so you have about as much claim as the king's royal fucking donkey.

>>3069172
That's not true

My Dad did a fair bit of digging and found out that we're distantly related to Isaac Newton through marriage, I think it was his sister or cousin. It's really grasping at straws but it's the only claim to fame we have

>>3069152
Oh, and he also managed to not be purged - fought in WWII as well, and lived to 1983.

His nephew served in the SS, meanwhile. Life takes weird turns.

>>3065255
>Afghan "royalty"
>literally mountain pedophiles with a bigger stick than the other mountain pedophiles
>ME RULE YOU NOW!

I'm related to a military general currently fighting in Southern Sudan
He's my uncle, my dad's brother.

>>3066244
Polack?

>>3069326
http://nyamile.com/2017/02/18/lt-general-thomas-cirillos-resignation-exposes-the-tribal-regime-of-president-kiir
https://www.voanews.com/a/south-sudan-renegade-general-calls-for-overthrow-of-kiir/3752856.html
http://www.southsudannation.com/latest-breaking-news-lt-general-thomas-cirillos-heroically-resigns-from-kiirs-tribal-government-whats-next/

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>>3065255
PEASANTS ALL THE WAY BABY

>>3069326
>South Sudan
>any meaningful military ranks

>>3069370
Well, to be honest, military ranks have meant anything for a very short period of history.

Before that it was a case of "you're a respected member of whichever caste is now seen as respected - how about you command this unit, which you can call whatever you want, regardless of size?".

>>3065255
Ancestor was a Knight of Santiago, killing Muslims and shit.

Poor bastard apparently didn't mind fucking the shit out of their widows, 'cause I came out looking like one.

>Be Huemonkey

> Family comes from a long line of Yemenite jews in the arabian peninsula and surrounding regions.

>Most of them were travelling merchants (Yes, le stereotype), as there weren't much other occupations for jews back then.

>Can trace back family origins back to the middle ages.

>One of my ancient ancestors personally knew and worked as an advisor to Tamerlane, from what the records tell.

>A lot of others travelled the silk road into central asia and india, with one particular ancestor building quite a fortune on the indian spice trade.

>By the 19th century family has mostly settled on the region of Tyre, Lebanon.

>Years pass and WWI ensues.

>To escape the war and persecution, family flees to Brazil.

And that's about it, nothing really that interesting desu.

My great, great grandfather founded a family company that is now one of the largest in its kind, making our family one of the richest in our country, Im named after my grandfather who is named after him. my great grandparents were resistance fighters in ww2 and earned the yad vashem posthumously. I can trace my bloodline to charlamange (like evertone else in europe I reckon)

father's side
>great great (idk how many times great) grandfather was a knight from Malta
>the whole clan moved to Spain, had a town named after them
>move to South America cause civil war

mother's side
>great great grandpa was a famous spanish painter
>great grandma was the princes of an aboriginal tribe
>lol ilegitimate sons

>>3066288
lmao, that's a great one

>>3069314
this is /his/- history and humanities
you must be looking for /pol/- politically incorrect

I wish I could do more research to find out more, all I know is that my great grandpa was one of the leading generals in recruiting for ww2 in the east united states. At least thats what i've always been told, no idea how to find out if it's true lol

>>3069401
>implying you're not a cuck baby

>>3069532

You know, i agree with you that stormweenies are a problem, but constantly complaining about them won't fix shit, ignore them and they will fade away, it's not like anyone takes them seriously here.

By repeatedly complaining about them in every thread you just make them more of an issue and alienate people that possibly would be on your side, to them you just sound annoying, not some cool fighter of virtue.

Napoleon used to say "never stop an enemy while he's comitting a mistake", stormweenies can't win a discussion because facts are not on their side, they will fail if left by their own devices, the only reason they have a growing presence is because of people like you who create a legit excuse for them to pretend to be victims. (Ironically a tactic very similar to the "SJWs" they criticize.)

Unless of course i'm talking to a troll, then do whatever mate

I honestly don't know what my family history is past my great-grandparents. Is there any good way to research that stuff that's not paying shekels to some jewish website like Ancestry?

>>3065255
My ancestor was on the first fleet, the charlotte

I had a great grandfather who got shot in the leg in Central Park smuggling liquor during prohibition. My Grandfather Grandfather was on on one of the the first ships in Tokyo Harbor after WW2.

That's about it.

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X times great Grandfather came from Ireland and served under General Washington at Ft. Necessity

X times Great-Aunt married Edwin Booth

Adoptive family is from a pretty scottish clan famous for fighting alongside William Wallace

Thats about all I've got desu

>>3069532
not a /pol/fag, it's just ridiculous when people from backwards pedophile tribes huff and puff about being royalty. It doesn't mean anything. So yea, nah, cunts.

>>3065255
All i know is my great grandmother was indigenous but my grandma doesnt want to tell me what tribe they were despite telling her i want to preserve their language. I only roughly know they spoke otomi.
Ive been looking into DNA testing. I want to know if im italian or a spaniard.

>>3070821
>not a /pol/fag
yes you are
Afghanistan was as secular and improving as Iran before the revolutions of '78 and '79 respectively, if you actually gave a shit about history you'd know they weren't always backwards ass allah akbar kid fuckers
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Am%C4%81null%C4%81h_Kh%C4%81n_and_civil_war
They had a fucking air force in 1921. Dumbass.

>>3070821
>>3071777
>The political and judicial reforms Amānullāh proposed were equally radical for the time and included the creation of Afghanistan's first constitution (in 1923), the guarantee of civil rights (first by decree and later constitutionally), national registration and identity cards for the citizenry, the establishment of a legislative assembly, a court system to enforce new secular penal, civil, and commercial codes, prohibition of blood money, and abolition of subsidies and privileges for tribal chiefs and the royal family.

>>3066171
Is that your grandpa? He looks like a cool dude.

peasants, my dads family has been peasants in ireland since time immemorial.
and ill have nothing exciting to tell my grand children about my life either...

>>3072401
Go out and grab life by the balls anon

My great great grandpa died at Pearl Harbor. He was off duty but ran back to join the defense when the attack began. He was a good guy from what I heard.

[spoiler]My dad made Bill Murray laugh[/spoiler]

>>3072419
And my legacy will be fucking up a spoiler, apparently.

>>3065778
No, he did good. Only good gommie is a dead gommie.

>>3072401
Fuck that is rough, if I had Irish blood in me I'd be pretty depressed. It isn't much better but my Father's side is Scottish and his mum was related to the Scottish royal family.

But happily my Mum's side is English for the most part with a few migrants from Europe

>>3072415
ive fought in two wars, traveled around the world, really tried to forge an identity for myself, but thats it I still feel ive wasted my life

>>3065778
In this case, I'd say he did what was right because it kept his family alive. And now his great-grandkid gets to tell his story on a Laotian cartoon board.

>>3072465
That's nothing to shake a shillelagh at, you fucking mick. Everything seems less interesting once you've been there or done that. Make sure your stories get passed down so you can inspire your grandkids to make their own.

>>3065255
Poor fucking Irish people who gave up on potatoes during the Famine, then moved to America to farm pumpkins.. I think I'm /very/ distantly related to someone who was in the IRA, and then the PIRA (I'm talking the great great great grandchildren of the cousin of a great great great grandparent)

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>>3072487

>>3071777
>everything I don't like is /pol/!!!
>le Buzzfeed 1960s photos maymay
Every country has urban elites, Abdullah. You can't be on /his/ and be this stupid to think a dozen cherry-picked promo brochure photos proves Afghanistan was practically

An air force in 1921!! Oh my, you sure showed me. That just says everything, case closed.

And I'm sure the boy fucking just came out of nowhere in the 1980s though, right?

>>3072502
Lots of people were in the IRA, so that's not really that remarkable, Plastic Paddy #13296782.

My grandmother's father was a Catholic in Northern Ireland. He left because his family was apparently one of just 4 Catholic families in the village he was living in, the family house had been vandalized repeatedly, broken windows, gates and walls broken, garbage thrown at the house, sheep stolen, police did nothing, shit like that. Right before WW1 (already in his late 20s by then), he left to take a job building railroads in Canada. He married an Anglican English woman he met (my great-grandmother who died when I was 10, lived to two weeks past her 100th bday). He consented to be paid in bottles of booze from time to time instead of cash, which tells you enough about him. At some point, he became a semi-pro boxer (for betting rings, kinda like cock fighting, except with dumb alcoholic micks), and was apparently well known in the scene with a good record. Needless to say, he was a drunk and a wife-beater, who when not boxing would luckily disappear for long periods of itinerant manual labour around Canada. Died in his early 50s in some shitty mining town in far northern Ontario and was buried there. At the time, no one bothered to track down some drunk bums family, so it was several months before they got notice.

My gran tells a story about how when she was in her 40s, an older guy comes up to her in a restaurant and says, excuse me, but aren't you So-and-Sos daughter? She says yes, and he reminisces about the old days.

Guy was apparently a boxer, the highest ranked in his weight class back in Canada in his time (in the early 40s, forget who right now, I'm sure I could look it up). He knew her dad, but went pro instead of becoming a drunk.

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>>3072960
K, my family was part of that urban elite you mention, so your "goat fucking" shit doesn't apply to me cave beast..
My fucking dad owns his own business, my grandpa was a UN diplomat and professor for 35+ years, and his father was a prominent figure in Afghan politics and best friends with Afghanistan's most secular king since the fucking Persians. So fuck off outta my thread shitstain.

Great x6 nephew of Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox.

Nothing else comes close to that level of awesomeness.

>>3073039
>plastic paddy
It's the closest thing I have to a notable relative and I wholly admit it's not very notable; chill your dick syrup boy.

I have a few interesting ancestors, but something that's a bit closer to me personally that I find interesting is that I got my last name from someone I'm not biologically related to, who in also got that last name from someone they weren't related to. There isn't even any adopting or cucking involved! Although there is remarriage and homosex in the story...

>>3073071
>my family was part of that urban elite
lol. No wonder you're so butthurt. Sure your ass hasn't been rented out a few times too many?

All that shit says nothing about YOU, bragging about trivial nonsense and getting severely ass-pained on 4chan. Loser.

Afghanistan is full of rapey pedos and superstitious dumbasses LARPing medieval times. And then you have out-of-touch corrupt 'elites' who seem to genuinely think the whole country was some secular modern paradise, and that this was not confined to a few dozen backyard pools in Kabul.

>secular
>king
pick one.

>>3073586
Are you an atheist by any chance?

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>Great grandpa was a farmer who moved from Minnesota to Washington
>Farm was just miles away from the Hanford Site, a nuclear production complex that was part of the Manhattan project, and helped develop the first ever nuclear bomb and that Fat Man bomb which was dropped on Japan
>After the Cold War 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste were left at the site, an additional 25 million cubic feet of solid radioactive waste, and 200 square miles of contaminated groundwater beneath the site.
>At the end of my great grandpa's life he gets cancer and dies
>All of his relatives claimed that the cancer was caused by nuclear radiation from the site
>These claims were never investigated, never confirmed or denied

>be 3x great-granpa
>come to america from sweden
>become a lumberjack
>have tree fall on you
>die
at least i now know even my ancestors were failures

Grandpa drove Rommel around in North Afrika

>>3073586
not him but you're just a cunt

>>3065255
My Dad's great great uncle was sitting bull's half brother, or something like that.

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>>3065255
King David is my 103rd great-grandfather. My surname is Shaltiel, one of the most ancient Sephardic Jewish families.

There is possibility that my great * 1/2 grandfather from mother side, was a Jew, because my mother have a bit Jew-y last name.

>be my grandma in 1945 Northern Italy
>Last stages of ww2
>Whatever remained of the german forces is leaving the country to go back to Germany or Austria and the Allies are arriving from the south
>One day in town it gets spread the word that the Americans are arriving
>People gathers in the main streat to see and welcome them
>Two tanks approach the town, everybody cheering them, tosaing flowers, excetera
>something_looks_wrong.jpeg
>Someone whispers "It's written Wehrmacht on those tanks?"
>Oh fuck they're germans
>Then one of the german soldiers asks the crowd: "why are you celebrating?"
>Promptly a girl in the crowd answers: "because you too are going back home"

And after that the tanks continued in their way and my town dodged being destroyed at the end of ww2

>>3066642
my name is Abraham, Im a direct relative of Abraham Lincoln.

That's what you sound like btw

>>3074126
How does it feel knowing your kids could be the Mashiach?

>>3074126

just figured I'd make 1 too

guys does this mean I can marry a prince?

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>>3074458

FUCK I FORGOT THE PICTURE OMG now harry will never like me ;_;

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I'm bumping this because I love your guy's stories. (however true they may be)

Wow people actually have interesting family histories? fuck
I got to the late 19th century (leads dried up) and nothing. Not even anyone in world war 2. I have on great grand uncle who died in the Somme but thats it.
Only thing of note is that they were all English and came from similar areas.
No other cultural connections or interesting people.

>>3065255
>grandfather on dad's side grew up on a farm in Indiana, learned to shoot to feed himself
>literally earn the reputation as the best shot in the county (there are newspaper articles)
>enlisted into WWII at 16, lied about his age
>quickly becomes a platoon sergeant, teaches his comrades to shoot
>became army golden glove boxer
>killed a fuckton of Japs
>came home, married my grandmother, and started working at a Ford Plant in his town
>5 years later he's the foreman of the plant

>grandfather on mother's side grew up in the slums of Chicago
>dropped out of college after his father died to take care of his family and run the oil transportation company his dad had started
>started out with a single truck, driving oil out to construction sites himself
>worked everyday for 40 years, makes it into a multi-million dollar company that employs +100 people

before them it really just farmers and a dude that taught Latin and Ancient Greek at the University of Minnesota

>>3066387
Unironically kill yourself.

>>3065255
Grandfathers grandmother was from Austria.
I look and talk like Hitler.
I wonder if... Nah that would be unlikely.

>>3073680
Nope. Keep pulling straws.

>>3074026
A stunning rebuttal. Talk shit, get hit.

>>3073846
My grandfather came from Sweden. Actually his single-mother mom did, brought him when he was 14 or so (left behind an older simpleton brother in Sweden, and an infant daughter with a family friend to raise as their own). She never married, but had three kids from (not proven, but strongly believed) the same father. This guy, whose last name my family has, eventually abandoned her and married another woman and had more kids. It's not a very common last name, so many with it are related somehow. My great-grandma later had a fourth child from some richfag, but it was given away for adoption right away. Relatives in Sweden have tracked down a few dozen people (including me) all tracing back to this generation described above. Some are in the US, too.

Great-grandma worked in hotels and mansions as a maid. Eventually she went back to Sweden and opened a small hotel there with money she made, which she did till she died.

My grandpa started working right away on steamships, which led to him becoming a ship's electrician. For about 15-20 years, he worked on merchant ships between New England/Canada and the Caribbean. Lots of old photos of him at port in Cuba, Venezuela, Guyana, Mexico, Jamaica, etc. He was based in NYC, but met a woman at a movie theatre in Halifax, Canada (port city and all) and later they married in 1938. Basically got stuck in Halifax because of the war, in early 30s by then and didn't want to risk being sunk with a young family (my dad's the youngest of 5 boys), so they stayed put. Later worked for various canal companies in Canada. Lived to be 85, smoking unfiltered handrolled cigs for literally over 70 years up until the end. I was young when he died, but I remember he liked watching baseball and wrestling, lol. He was apparently somewhat stern and strict as a father, probably 'cause the shitty life he had growing up. It worked since all his sons (incl. my dad) studied a lot, and became engineers and managers and shit.

>>3065255
Great grandma used to be a landlord, managed to dodge the worst of the Chinese cultural revolution by virtue of having been nice to tenants and asking them not to report her as being part of the bourgeoisie.

Later, due to good teachers having been sent to rural areas, my dad found a teacher that liked him. He got basically free tutoring from him and managed to land a spot in a good college, eventually getting a job and moving to the US.

>>3074147
Could be... but if it's in Polish/Slav or German, a lot of poorfag peasants had simple last names explaining their profession. Gentile and Jew alike, so not all are necessarily Jewish.

>>3075260
And just to add, one of my uncles in Sweden I talk with now and then did a DNA test recently. Found that his mDNA (maternally inherited, so came via his mother and her mother -- i.e. MY great-grandmother) is a group that is mostly found in Finns, apparently pre-neoltihic farmer, or in other words from the indigenous snow-mongols always native to the area. There was indeed a population of several thousand so-called 'Forest Finns' in central Sweden, right from the area she was born in, who were invited over to settle the area and keep perfidious Norwegians away. All from the time when Finland was part of the Swedish empire, so my great-grandma had Finnish blood.

Traced my family back far enough to see I'm related to Saint Dennis. The first patron saint of Paris

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Not much to my family history; literally every stereotypical Italian-American immigrant story rolled into one. Came to the States between 1894-1923 from poor areas in Sicily, worked a ton of menial labor jobs, had a ton of kids etc. etc. Unfortunately, it's practically impossible to trace my history farther than my great-great grandparents thanks to a tsunami as a result of the 1908 Messina earthquake that wiped out a lot of church and civil records.

Pic related, my great grandparents on my mother's side. Don't know when that photo was taken, maybe 1930s?

Fun fact: My family shares a surname with a semi-famous Mafia guy. As far as I know there's no relation.

Traced back to Jean Rapp who saced Napoléons life twice lads
Also had great grandfathers fighting on both the german and french army during ww1 because Elsass.

My mom's side of the family is directly related to this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sevier

>>3065255
My great-grandfather's father was an NCO in the German Unification Wars and was himself a trench-fighter for the AEF in WWI wheras my great-grandfather was a paratrooper at Guadalcanal only to be put on garrison duty in Chicago, in command of security at the Destroyer assembly dock there.
He got the lung cancer from the asbestos there, my grandfather and great-great-grandfather outlived him. Kinda sad I met neither, being born 2 years after his death.

Family legend is that we are related to John Dillinger's girlfriend

Although frankly I'm probably related to anyone in North America with her surname, I think we all come from one dude who moved to Montreal a long ass time ago

Great great grandmother was chef for austrohungarian emperor on the royal flagship some shit like that

>>3065389
I've heard that Australians consider it a mark of honour to be a descendant of one of the exported convicts, if that's true then good on you mate.

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>my pompuous grandmother who was from low extraction and maried my rich grandfather always claimed he was from the descent of a noble Venitian doge
>too bad for her, my other grandmother was specialist in italian history and told me this particular doge was famous for dying without any offspring and ending his lignage
>mfw everybody in the family knows it but nobody has the balls to confront my matriacal grandmother
>grandfather told us the fortune he inherited was from the work of his granfather who built the railway and hostels/casinos in Mexico in the 19th

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>Great great grandfather was the Minister for War during WW1 in Australia
>The family's considerable wealth, which luckily ends at my father's generation in any sort of meaningful way, was obtained through my direct ancestor, who struck Gold in Queensland somewhere after fleeing Scotland
>Our family motto, according to a family member who wrote an extensive book on our lineage, is 'Deeds, not Words'
>Evidently this dates from England when Charles II was fleeing through England on horseback and came across our woodcutting family, to which the family patriarch bundled the young pretender off his horse, donned the King's cloak, and rode like the wind through the woods to help him evade his captors
>I have a coat of arms somewhere in my Grandmother's house
>My cousin, who is also of my last surname, takes very seriously the heritage and had it (for better or worse) tattooed on his heart
>I care for all the above like I care for a bout of the shits

>>3077095
Modern days, yes. My extended family are from Adelaide, a free settlement as opposed to a penal colony, and since settlement to pre-ww2 absolutely none of them are from other states, presumably because FILTHY CONVICTS or possibly due to lack of movement of labour in those days

My family comes from some burghers on The danish isle of bornholm. They later moved and married people from all over Norway. Mainly northern Norway and western norway

How many generations back can you trace your families?

I'm only looking for records of my great-grandparents and I have to scour websites written in Dutch and Russian, neither of which do I speak.

>>3065338
ayyy the jets
mah man

>>3069152
>>3069200
This is awesome man.

>>3069152
What is his name!

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Well lets see on my moms side we have
>dirt farmers
and on my dads side we have
>more dirt farmers

>>3073071
T. Assblasted shwarma eater
You gonna eat roast goat with your hands you fucking Paki

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I'm a descendant of guy named William Earl Dodrill who was allegedly in the army Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown and later became a good friend to Daniel Boone.

Old noble family, we have precise records up to the 11th century. If you look into the history of my country, my family name will pop up once in a while in primary sources, though we were rarely protagonists. We served the local duke for a while, then the king directly. As diplomats, in the army, in local administration, etc.

There's tons of stories, here's one: in the early 19th century, one of my ancestor was tasked with fighting British influence in Persia, obtain favorable trade deals, and generally test the waters, basically. He then published an account of his trip. It's full of great descriptions of the region and of the local cultures, which is already very interesting, but it also reads like an adventure novel at times. He arrived in Ottoman territory with an armed escort and a few artists/archaeologists, where he was relatively badly treated. He had to cross the Armenian mountains tailed by bandits, in the middle of winter, having to sleep in abandoned barns, eating basically nothing (in great dinnerware, though). But when he finally arrived in Persian territory, he was treated like a king. When he arrived in Isfahan, though, he refused to go through the relatively humiliating protocol to meet the Shah, as he thought it was beneath a representative of our country. This went on for a bit, the Persian were basically begging him to just do it. It's crazy he wasn't kicked out on the spot, but they were kinda desperate for allies. Ended up doing it, met the Shah a lot, got along well with him, observed the diplomatic game, He didn't get trade deals but agreed to a military mission, obtained the end of the persecution of Christians, and for our country to be recognised their protector. Came back through Irak and Syria, which was only slightly less dangerous than the way he came. It's a very fun read.

>>3078792
hey shwarma is pretty good, leave it out of this

>>3078942
This
>>3078792
Fuck you nigger
Fuck Pakis

I'm a descendant of Charlemagne, Confucius and Nefertiti.

AMA

>>3078786
Same.

>>3065255
My great grandfather was best friends with this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kasparek

>Maternal Great-grandfather served in Italian Navy during WWII
>Maternal grandfather fled Yugoslavia
>Maternal grandmother's ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch
>my Dad's ancestors were poo in loos brought to Guyana by the brits as slaves basically


My family history's boring. My only comfort is that most of you claiming to be royals are probably larping

>>3079413
>My only comfort is that most of you claiming to be royals are probably larping
While they are probably larping, its probably not in the way you are thinking. Its not that they aren't descended from royalty, but rather that pretty much every white person and their mother can trace themselves back to royalty if they can go back far enough.

>>3079434
>>3079413
The only person claiming to be royalty here is a Afghan, tho.

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>>3079467
>he didn't see the "muh charlemagne confucius and nefertiti" just a few posts above his

Related to a signer of the declaration of independence by blood.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hart_(New_Jersey_politician)

Had some great uncle that was a cartographer in the navy so has places in the puget sound, Tahiti and the antarctic named after himself. He died in a raid on the coast of confederate florida.

Related to the gambino crime family by marriage.

Prob a lot more.

>Grandma's family was fleeing from the war in Eastern Prussia
>They missed the Wilhelm Gustloff by two hours

>Grandpa lost his family in the war
>Got picked up by soldiers from the Red Army and was taken to Berlin in a fucking tank
>They took care of him and he was raised by the family of the gunner well beyond the end of the war

Only interesting part of family history that I know of.

My grandmother was the first female danish immigrant to the USA to be in an official police force.

>>3079584

Actually, I think maybe just the first in NYC.

Family goes back all the way to 1150-1330

My great-grandmother moved from England to Canada. She came over via a cattle-class berth on the Lusitania, on one of its earlier voyages. A few years later it was torpedoed.

My dad was a tracker fkr the selous scouts.

>be dad
>be 14
>parents beat the shit outta you ebery day, mum is a fuckin drunk
>FUCK YOU MUM N DAD IMMA JOIN THE ARMY WHAT NOW
>ill be fine unless war were declared
>ooga bpoga whitey our land now
>war were declared

Killed his first man at 17.

>>3079505
But that's obviously an attempt at a joke, you autist.

One of my ancestors got scalped in Kentucky in 1840

1st cousin, 15 times removed from Lady Anne, Countess of Pembroke. You may know her as Anne Boleyn.

My 10th Great Grandfather, Sir Thomas Rush was also knighted at her coronation.
We Tudor now.

>>3079535
Fellow signer relative here.
Dr. Benjamin Rush is my second cousin, seven times removed.

My great gramps was the equivalent of Grand Dragon/Klorero for Alabama for a third klan group.

>>3065687
not that anon, but yeah, some Jewish families can.

>>3066549
Hi Prince Harry, always knew you were on 4chan ;-)

>>3066806
perfect combination then.

>>3066955
>has never heard of the endogamic index

>>3079467

I am a descendant of William the Conqueror/Edward Longshanks pls see above. My great-grandmother on my father's side grew up on a big ol' tobacco plantation in the south and I guess her and her fore-bearers' $$$ come from being nobles in England

all that $$$ is dried up now, sadly, at least as far as I have benefited from it. Don't know if I'd want to be rich off of slaves anyway

>>3074885
I'm telling you, Anon John Bull, one day, very soon, that will have been a notable family fact in itself: that your ancestors were all the one people living in the same place. That enough will be deemed "interesting" in years to come, due to the rising tide of colour and general mongrelisation.

Be glad of their uninterestingness for now.

>>3075466
he wasn't that saintly then, was he, if he was porking widows after confession?

>>3077774
ask your genealogically-minded grandmother about Evola's noble credentials and report back, grazie.

>>3078938
this isn't de Gobineau, is it?

My great uncle was Adm. Nimitz's driver (or one of them).

My great uncle's (dunno if same one, had like 3 great uncles in the pacific theater) fiancee got killed at Pearl Harbor.

My dad trained RWDS's in Honduras in the 80's.

My grandma's uncle ( german) was on a train in the eastern front and it got blown up.

My grandma saw some drunk Ukrainian soldiers fight and one dude got stabbed in the head. Her sister robbed his corpse and they weren't hungry for a few weeks.

>>3079376
WE

>>3065255
I had family in ww1 and ww2, grandad was a paratrooper not sure which wars he served but he was also a math genius and a programmer, I had family on my other side who served in the sri lankan wars

>>3075565
Amazing how even during the poorest of times men and women still dressed to impress.

>>3082270
>spotted the pleb
That's just how people dressed back then, and that is hardly 'dressing up'. Only mechanics and coal shovelers wore denim and t-shirts.

great granpa was a nazi boss

x great grandpa tricked a bear

x Great grandpa tricked a guy

grand uncle was sunken in ww2 by submarine

grampas boat was attacked by octopus

dad lost his finger once

i have nothing to tell