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doubleT wrote:I find it somewhat amusing that all the people that have great historical figures in their bloodline share one common interest: wargaming - and they all joined dakka once ...
(or they just think they're related ...)
Luco wrote:No one special that I am currently aware of, just a boatload of infantrymen having fought everywhere from Ireland to Okinawa.
That's the only thing I know about my great grandfather and my grandfather (from my father's side). My great grandfather fought in WW1 and my grandfather fought in WW2 and I have a lot of details about him. My grandfather, my gread grandfather, his father and some more from my mothers side were allways engine drivers ...
Anyway, my grandfather was a machine gunner in WW2, saw the outskirts of Moskow, was sent home before gak happened in the east and was a board gunner on one flight on Rommel's plane.
I'd love to know my family history before WW1, though. :/
Same here with the Austrian side of my family. Moved to the U.S. in 1902 then his son hit France in 1917. Three of his sons were apart of the invasion force at Utah Beach while the other fought in the Pacific campaign. Their kids were sent to Korea and Vietnam as infantry. I have an uncle that was apart of the shelling during the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Gulf War and another that was killed in Afghanistan.
The Irish side of my family fought pretty much everywhere. My mother's side fought under Washington in the Revolution, in the Mexican-American War. My father's Irish side arrived later and was pressed into service as a Union infantryman and fought against my mother's ancestors who was a Confederate infantryman.
My family lives up to our name, meaning 'red warrior'.
Supposedly (this is a big "supposedly") my mother's side of the family has ties to George Washington. In reality, I'm more proud of my family's military service over the last three or four generations.
Apparently my family is related in some way to Sir Alfred Munnings. Not sure how legitimate the claim is but it's a nice story and my family isn't prone to exaggerations or anything. Will have to get on the phone to an aunt of mine who follows this stuff a lot more closely than I do.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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I'm related to Wyatt Earp, as long as you count one of my relatives changing his name to Wyatt Earp.
Other than that I'm supposed to be related to that French guy who banged Sacagawea before going with Lewis and Clark. Not sure about it, but I also had a distant relative who was on a mortar team in the Wehrmacht during WW2. I had a great grandfather who was also on an antitank halftrack during WW2 for the good ole U.S of A. I wonder if they ever met somethimes.
I found out I come from a long and illustrious line of refugees
Trying to get to the bottom of my weird Sir name I traced my earliest recorded English ancestor, a French Protestant chap by the name of Antoine. He was married in Newcastle in 1647 and was most likely a Huguenot refugee from the 30 years war, escaping one war to land right in the middle of the English civil war must have been fun. He Anglicized pretty quick having two sons and calling them both Anthony rather than Antoine.
The Scottish side of the family are Murphys which is to common a name in this part of the world to trace. Obviously of Irish origins though.
Oh the shame of being the descendant of a Frenchman
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One of my far distant ancestors was a private (IIRC) in the American Revolution. My wife has been doing some family background recently, so maybe I'll ask her to check out my side as well.
Also, I am told that my parents were 4th or 5th cousins.
8th great grandfather. He came over on the Mayflower to America as an indentured servant to Shephen Hopkins. He was involved in the first (recorded) duel in what is now the US with another pilgrim (over a woman). He and the man he dueled with were sentenced to be shackled to each other for 24 hours as punishment, but they were "pardoned" after about an hour.
Speaking of colonists I have a relative that was in the Revolutionary War, somewhere in Maryland the registration says. I also have a relative buried in the same cemetary as Benjamin Franklin.
No-one famous in my bloodline I'm related to a Romani Gypsy however no one knows the name, my great grandfather on my dads side was a Sergeant Major/ Quartermaster in north africa during WW2, my great grandad on my mothers side was in the somme during WW1 and I have his webbing belt (due to loving dressing up as a soldier when I was younger anyway).
My dad is also related to some poets or artists in Cumbria (Im not dutch just here on holiday).
One of my Mum's cousin's was taken away by the British Red Berets during the troubles in Ireland but came back alive albeit bloody and bruised. And her other cousins were caught in the middle of a firefight between the IRA and a British sniper in Derry (Londonderry if you want it's "Correct" name)
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I am a man,
Prone to weakness,
But I am a Guardsman,
Where weakness is death,
I will crush my weakness,
With the weight of my pride.
My dad was Hungarian, with a Czech father, Hungarian mother.
That's all I can find out - the records no longer exist (we have a copy of his birth certificate, with parent's details) but the records hall was apparently bombed to bits during WW2 and what was left didn't survive the Russian occupation.
My mum has an early Australian Colonial explorer in her family tree (Thomas Huxley, who explored around the Sydney Basin) but is otherwise from a mix of English and Scots.
She keeps the family tree stuff. I have no interest.
My wife is related (distantly) by blood to the American Kennedy clan. Long lost cousins or something.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
My ancestry is filled to the brim with finn fishermen and soldiers and moon mad hessian nobles. Sadly, my gramps come from a crazy inbred noble family à lá Habsburg and his wife was of noble russian blood. I think I have already told the great story of my two gramps somewhere else in this forum, so I'll leave it at that...
There's a post office notice in the hills of Kentucky indicating that my great grandfather owes someone a goat.
Also, apparently I share a common ancestor with Ronald Reagan.
Another pair of ancestors were part of the Trail of Tears. Evidently my female ancestor was taken to Kentucky by a deserting solider (the male ancestor).
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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