You can't miss something like that. They saw. They heard. They weren't going to give up someone who killed a collaborator.

OOPS!

Please tell me you named YOUR son Edward as well. (If he has one. And yes, I know he can't see this.)

Wowie-Zowie! My paternal grandfather traced his family back to the 900s and found out that the family name (Jett) meant “keeper of the keys.” Since the city’s keys aren’t turned over to just anyone, this makes him minor nobility.

And how long after that was *he* fired?

I’m sooo jealous! I had a crush on Paul for probably 25-30 year...from my childhood well into my 20s.

Photos. I need photos.

Yowza! Check that out! I learned at my father’s funeral that he had been awarded three Bronze Stars for bravery during the Korean War. (My father was an alcoholic who spent all of his money at the bar, leaving my mother to scramble in order to feed me and my brother. When she found out she was pregnant with my sister, she left him, divorced him, and received sole custody of us from the court.)

Saying this as a German. I think it is wrong for people with Nazi ancestors to cry about it and feel bad and ashamed. This has nothing to do with you. You were not a part of it. It's not you who has to live with the guilt.

Woah....

Where's the rest of this story?!

I hate to be a party pooper, but the Cherokee Trail of Tears was from 1830 to 1850. You may have a very long lived grandmother, but that photo does not predate the Civil War.

My grandfather’s people settled in the Shenandoah Valley in the 1600s, which means they likely owned slaves. In my will I’m going to leave whatever money I still have in my various accounts to the NAACP as reparation for this ugly history.

My great grandmother (born in 1894) married Mr. Robinson, had my grandmother, and later divorced Mr. Robinson (I have no idea how she pulled that off back in the 1920s as a practicing Catholic), married Mr. Ness, had my great-aunt, left Mr. Ness and without divorcing Mr. Ness, shacked up with Mr. Robinson, carrying his name to her grave. It apparently caused quite the scandal in her small Oregon town.

Which country is it in?

How the hell could ANYBODY find that out?

Grace Sherwood, taken down a dirt lane now known as Witchduck Road and dunked.

Who in the family did the genealogy that revealed this?

I want to know more about the Jackson Pollack part!

The Sopwith Camel!

Le drame des pieds noirs....

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It is pretty common with family stories of people being decendants of bastard children of kings. They seem to get around and contraceptions or abortions was probably not a big thing until in the 1900's. My great grandfather was such a bastard to a king, but the most interesting ancestor is perhaps Joséphine de Beauharnais or Empress Joséphine of France who was also Napoleons first wife. Some of my ancestors (her relatives) got beheaded in the French revolution, but if memory serves me right she became Empress like 10~ years after the revolution

Unrelated but I like his username

Wow...D**k Clark! That’s so utterly cool.

One of the Reivers? Apparently that's where most of the Scotch Irish people in the US Appalachia areas have their origin, as well!

Happens more often than you'd think.

Was your dad private Ryan by any chance?

Watch yourself!