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Cheeky chicken 1 year ago

And while Ravis life ended tragically and directly because despicable people exist the love and light of who he was as a person echoed down the generations and changed the world the ops family lived in. While I hate that a person had to go through what Ravi endured (and not actually that long ago) he has truly left a legacy. Fly high and free Ravi and know your name lives on x

25points

similarly 1 year ago

This is such a sad and beautiful story. Yes, Rest in Peace, Ravi.

5points

Nene Miu Miu 1 year ago

God bless you and your wonderful family and may Ravi rest in peace.

25points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

The love these women felt for their gay friend made your family supportive.

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MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 year ago

This brought me to tears.

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Francine Oglethorpe 1 year ago

Omg this is beautiful.....so glad you found so much support

18points

Isabela Cincu 1 year ago

That s to send to all homophobes around the world

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Weim Central 1 year ago

Nice reminder of humanity.

17points

Porribix 1 year ago

Thats such a wholesome story

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Valaun 1 year ago

I just wish that conservatives would be able to be decent to people without the need for a personal experience with someone they love being persecuted. What is wrong with just adopting a "if you aren't hurting others, do as you wish" view on the world. It's really ironic given they all follow religions whose main guy basically says "be cool, don't judge" yet use that very religion as a foundation for their hate.

12points

Tetelestai 1 year ago

Someone’s sweatshirt at my musical theater today: “Leave The Judgin’ To Jesus”

7points

LH25 1 year ago

Wow, reading this brought tears. What an amazing family and way to turn a tragedy into something so positive.

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

Utterly beautiful

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Tim Nicebutdim 1 year ago

As a male in large Irish family you never cross the matriachs, your life will be lived as if you had a hornets nest in your underpants.

7points

Princess Mar-li Cathryn 1 year ago

This is also true in a Caribbean family. These women will not kill you, rather they will make you wish you were dead.

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Nay Wilson 1 year ago

Good old grandma 🙂

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Susie Elle 1 year ago

Devils advocate; if your mother was threatened to respect you, does she then really respect you? (Perhaps she does, I truly hope so but I can't really make that out from the story)

7points

im under ur bed hon 1 year ago

god bless your beautiful family! and may ravi rest in heaven 💕

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glowworm2 1 year ago

Awesome and supportive grandmother and her sisters.

6points

Rostit . 1 year ago (edited)

Im as straight as a country road and this brought a tear to my eye.

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JuniorCJ82 1 year ago

OMG!!! There's no unnecessary bleeping in this story!!! My eyes!!! My virginal eyes!!! Let me go grab my pearls so that I may clutch them!!!

5points

Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

This made me cry. I am so glad your family is so accepting.

5points

ShayXie 1 year ago

jfc that was so incredibly sad and sweet

5points

g90814 1 year ago

I hope you gave them all great big hugs. What a crew!

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BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago

This made my heart full and broke it at the same time

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The Deez 1 year ago

Oh, this is the BEST story!!!!

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Jackson McGuire 1 year ago

Comment early if you’re here rn

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ADHD 1 year ago (edited)

RIP Ravi.

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ℕ𝕚𝕔𝕠 (WiggleJiggle) They/them 1 year ago

This made me cry. Suicide is so horrible and parents are the cause a lot of the time. It breaks my heart and I cannot say in words how much it devastates me. RIP Ravi 😔

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Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago

the ONLY good thing is that Ravi did not die in vain... others learned and are continuing to learn from a very bad mistake. I hope his parents rot in the hell they created for themselves

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Marvin HoG 1 year ago

I really was not expecting to cry right before bed. I just can't fathom how anyone could do to their own child what Ravi's parents did to him. I'm the parent of an LGBTQ+ child. They came out a few years ago and I basically just said "does your partner make you happy? Cool! Thank you for trusting me, I love you." That should be everyone's reaction. FYI young LGBTQ+ people: if you need an adult in your life to love & support you as you are please know that I am here for you and I respect you, you are an amazing person.

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Jay Son 1 year ago (edited)

Stories like this make me think of my father. He's from 1919 whereas i was born in the late 70s, so a huge age gap. When i was in my 20s and hadn't had a gf for a few years, he suddenly asked me if I was gay, and that if I was, i wouldn't have to worry and that it would be perfectly fine and that they'd still love me and such. I wasn't/am not gay (I'm just a shy guy irl), but I thought it was pretty cool of him to say something like that while he was in his 70s/80s. He was religious but also very open minded and accepting.

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Deppression 1 year ago

RIP Ravi :(

1point

Michał Osiecki 1 year ago

And that is how religion is evil pretending to be good

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LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago

Ravi, we are so terribly sorry that you suffered and hope you are at peace. But we want you to know that it actually meant something, that what you went through did make a difference to an entire family and to one more child. You did save his life.

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Sally Close 1 year ago

Saddest and most beautiful story.

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Rebecca McManus 1 year ago

This brought tears to my eyes, Ravi and those fierce women, I have no words

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Pretty Pink Sky Photography 1 year ago

And I’m crying. Heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.

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FloralDangerNoodle 1 year ago

Damn...heartbreaking and uplifting...crying so hard right now.

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Dana Ondráčková 1 year ago

Ravi paved the walkeay for you. I hope he rests calmly knowing he did made a positive impact on world

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Jen S 1 year ago

Love this!

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SCamp 1 year ago

That is one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. Thank you so much for sharing. Strong women are the backbone of humanity.

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Mimi M 1 year ago

Omilord, the onions are multiplying

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Rae Ramirez 1 year ago

This is beautiful

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Lee Banks 1 year ago

Good buddy just came out, but not super public.He tells me every week how much his Nan just wants him to be happy. This is beautiful.

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Joe Reaves 1 year ago

RIP Ravi. I'm glad things have improved in some places even though we have a long way to go.

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Persephone 1 year ago

Omg this made me cry on so many levels. Thank you everyone who teaches empathy and support

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Strontium Dog 1 year ago

Absolute b******t. These women hate homophobes... and still managed to raise all their children to be homophobes? Or they didn't care that all their children hated gay people until one of their grandchildren came out? And we are supposed celebrate these people? "Oh hey look at these incredible people, they decided not to lynch their gay grandson. Quick, drop to your knees and worship them!"

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“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great grandfather was from a wealthy family back in Greece / Albania in the 1890s. He had a tryst with a peasant girl who got pregnant. Rather than marry the peasant girl the family arranged for my great grandfather to be sent to America. Not to be outdone, the peasant girl and her family saved up enough money and sent her to America after him. She found him in New York, and they got married there.

Ughim50 , Vitor Monthay Report

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

Such a roller coaster this one lol

82points

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History Dutch here. My maternal grandfather was part of a group of people that hid Jews and Allies in a hidden village (underground house) made in the woods during WO II. They where later discovered by the SS but they still managed to save a lot of people. To this day you can visit the remains of the hidden village to see what it was like.

LJVDH , ishetnogver.n Report

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294points

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Stary_cat 1 year ago (edited)

My great grand father was Dutch he was a tailor, he smuggled Jewish out of the country and made them all new suits to hide their valuables. Then when the Americans came along he made them suits for payment , stolen painting antique silver wear ect. After a long long of accident after accident, he got married had kids and moved to Australia he even became David jones personal tailor. He even has a plaque in Denmark for his work. I feel a lot of the Dutch were amazing people, just a side note my grand parents and parents ate off the antique silver wear and dinner sets that were payment!

74points

Foundation_Wrong , Andrea Piacquadio Report

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My Grandfather was posted as missing in action, believed killed (WWI). My grandmother was expecting their first child. That usually meant they were actually killed so Grandmother was certain that she would never see him again. Then there was a knock at the door and Grandfather was standing there in the hospital blue uniform soldiers wore to show they were receiving treatment. He had been knocked unconscious by the explosion everyone thought killed him and sent to a hospital close to his home, without being identified. When he came around and was otherwise unhurt they gave leave to go home before being sent back to the front. Grandmother went into slightly early labour caused by the shock! Grandad survived the war, my grandmother and the baby were both ok and all lived quite long and healthy lives.

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

Wow that's incredible! So happy for all of em

46points

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandfather during WW2. He was born in 1908 so lived through both WW, and since we live in Moselle (north east of France), he lived in occupied territory from the beginning every time, and spoke perfect german.

He was a mechanic so when Germany invaded the second time he was put to work fixing vehicules. Except he pretended to not understand a single word of german. The soldiers always took so long explaining him what needed to be done, he would mess up, whatever could be an honest mistake without being in too much danger. The commander hated him for all of this but needed the skills since he was good.

At the end of the war, when they received the orders to retreat, my grandfather gave them a farewell speech in the best, most well spoken german possible, basically saying "F**k you, good bye". The 2nd in command was so furious about being made a fool all this time, reached for his gun but was stopped by his chief because it was not worth it and they were running out of time.

VoodooGWA , cottonbro studio Report

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261points

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

OMG ICONIC!!! Bless his soul

69points

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandfather's grandfather was found wandering naked in a forest. He was estimated to be around 8 or 9 years old. He didn't speak but understood when spoken to. After a few years he started talking but was never able to recall anything about his life before he was found by the family that took him in; my great-great-great grandparents. They raised him as their own and all the stories say he turned out pretty normal.

CouldBeBatman , Huy Phan Report

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213points

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

I would love to know his story

67points

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My Great-Grandmother had two suitors - a man in America and a man in Manchester, UK. The guy in America bought her a ticket to to cross the Atlantic and be with him, and she was set to go, but at the last minute the guy in England proclaimed his love and won her over. And that’s how my great-grandparents got together, as opposed to my great-grandmother dying on The Titanic.

BigRagu79 , wikipedia.org Report

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206points

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Tuna Beach 1 year ago

75% of the women on the titanic lived. Mostly due to not sharing their door.... 81% of the men died.

127points

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great great** grandmother was Winston Churchill’s parlour maid. When she left service to get married, he begged her to stay as he was fond of her, and when she said no, he gifted her a table and chair from his own parlour as a wedding gift. My parents have the chair in my mum’s office, and the table is currently in storage.

unneuf , wikipedia.org Report

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199points

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

Well, MY great grandmother was actually Winston Churchill

100points

Healthy_Chipmunk_990 Report

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History One of my great-grandmother’s grandma was an aristocrat. She fell in love with a peasant boy working on their lands.
Her father told her he would disown her if she wanted to be with that boy.
So one dark night the boy got my grandma escaped from their home and they ran away.
Needless to say she was disowned.

And that’s the story of why I have to work now, instead of just seeing my monthly allowance to show up on my bank account.

Omnia vincit amor.

Final score:

191points

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Verinder of the Valley 1 year ago

My great great grandmother has a similar story!!!! If not for her falling in love with my great great grandfather, there is every chance I could be some sort of lady by now. Im glad though. She chose love over money. It makes for a interesting conversation.

51points

#10

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandmother’s grandmother walked the trail of tears. Her parents did no make the walk (assumed dead). When she reached Oklahoma she was adopted by a white couple. She was put down as half Cherokee, half white on the roll because of this.

anaid_098 , zsreport Report

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178points

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Widdershins66 1 year ago (edited)

The US Federal Government's Ethnic Ceansing (genocide?) of 1830-50 of "five civilised tribes" Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations. Their lands were acquired for the whites (cotton) and the Georgia Gold Rush... Estimated death of more than 16,500 peoples during the Trail of Tears. Disgraceful.

126points

#11

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandfather (born in 1889) grew up on a farm. One day he and his brother were digging out a tree stump using mattocks, each one swinging alternately from the opposite side. His brother mistimed a downswing and clocked my grandfather on the head. His father put some kind of liniment on the wound and put him to bed.

When my grandfather woke up the next morning, he was blind. His father thought he was faking it to get out of doing his chores and told him to get to work. My grandfather felt his way out to the barn and fed the sheep, and by then his father realized he was telling the truth.

His sight returned in a few days. My grandfather went on to become a doctor and realized that the blow from the mattock had damaged the optic nerve -- fortunately, not permanently.

He served as an Army doctor in France during World War I, when he also had to deal with the great flu pandemic of 1918.

BSB8728 , samer daboul Report

Final score:

177points

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Delta Dawn 1 year ago

Born in 1889??? wow

1point

#12

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History Maternal grandmother's parents met in a train wreck.

G.Grandpa was traveling second class, with a window seat. G.grandma was traveling Coach. Something was on the tracks causing a derailment and many injuries. G.Grandma, being seated further back, was fine and pitched in to help those in need. G.Grandpa had hit the window and his ear was cut very badly, almost sliced off his head (almost). She was tearing off strips of her petticoat the use as bandages (ooh la la!). Until he died he teased that his left ear was lower than his right because 'she put it on wrong'.

penlowe , Pixabay Report

Final score:

173points

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Francine Oglethorpe 1 year ago

Is it in poor taste ..,🎶Do Your ears hang low???? 🎶

60points

#13

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History Great-great-great-great-great-great grandpa Andrew threw rocks through his landlord's windows in Cork, jumped onto the next ship to Canada, started a farm on the Ottawa River, changed his surname to MacDonald so people would think he was Scottish, and imprisoned the tax collector in his cellar when they came to demand land taxes from him.

ImperialistDog Report

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166points

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Hyrule26 1 year ago (edited)

Well that sounds chaotic

71points

#14

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great great etc grandfather was the first convict sent to Australia to be freed after serving his time. He went on to develop the wheat that we grow here. (European wheat died. )

MelJay0204 , Min An Report

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162points

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Elita One 1 year ago

My ancestors on my mum's side were convicts on the first fleet.

41points

#15

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandfather was born in Poland. He was around 16 when the wars broke out, and because he was a fit, healthy, blonde haired, blue eyed farmer boy, he was sent to work in German farms. Before that though, he was put into a concentration camp while they figured out where to send all their new slaves.

During this time, his older brother actually escaped. My grandfather says he stole a gun climbed the fence, tanked the cuts from the barbed wire, and just ran. He made the escape with a few other people, but all but two of them were killed. My grandfather was supposed to join them, but he said he just froze and chickened out. His brother later joined some battallion, where he later died fighting nazis.

My grandfather was eventually moved to a small town in Germany, and was housed with landowners who grew some sort of crop. He was set to work.

This small town was actually secretly against the war though, and the family he stayed with used their house as a safehouse to smuggle Jews. They had the whole "hidden room under the floorboards" thing. Luckily, they were never discovered. They, and a few other families in the town, wanted my grandfather to marry their daughters and stay in Germany. He did stay in Germany for a few months, he said he also joined the peace corps. Once he had his full of that, he simply jumped on the first boat out of there with nothing but his tool belt and the clothes on his back. That boat went to Australia, which is where he met my grandmother, and yada yada yada, I was born.

He had such a fascinating, terrifying life, full of turmoil and danger. But one thing never left him: his passion for plants. Right up until the week he passed away at age 86, he was still climbing ladders to trim his trees, hand pollinating all his bean plants with a feather, and shooting Indian Mynas out of the tree with his slingshot to let the native birds have the nest.

celaeya , Dom Gould Report

Final score:

158points

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Betsy Ray 1 year ago

Some incredible heritage!

24points

#16

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History Its not really a story, but once at a family gathering (I was around 14-15) we were talking about the church (not neccessarily in a good way) and my cousin (who was ~12 at the time.) asked us to switch topics cuz its boring, my grandmothers answer (80 at the time, and have only left her village a few times and never the country) was: “Listen to everything my child, if you like it, keep it, if you dont, just let it go, thats how you grow.” And that for me at the time, coming from her, was life changing for me, it opened up things I never thought I’d like. The sentence itself, made me grow, the consequences, I can not even describe. Life changing.

bende99 , June O Report

Final score:

155points

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Weim Central 1 year ago

I love nuggets of wisdom that last a lifetime.

46points

CicciaBomba11 , Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez Report

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“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My dad's aunt was living in Messina, Italy in the early 1900. In 1908 there was a huge earthquake that destroyed half the city and she was stuck under the rubble for 3 whole days right next to the bodies of her parents and 3 brothers without being able to move an inch. When she was found she didn't even have a broken bone and went on to have 10 children of her own and die at 97 years old.

Final score:

153points

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GoGoPDX 1 year ago (edited)

I am not a big believer in fate or that the universe chooses who it takes or saves, and I am an atheist. But every once in a while I hear a story, like this one or have had a patient where I question if there is something else at play. One such time was when i was a teen, a bunch of earthquakes hit our southern Oregon town. The biggest one was 6.2, and the rest ranged from 4 to 5.8. My dad was a firefighter paramedic, and of course he got called in (they did an All Call, when every available firefighter and medic come in) a couple days later when he got home, he told my mom and me about a call he went on. A couple were driving into town and we're about 12 miles out. They were in a highway that in next to a lake, and then has steep rocky walls on the other. One of the bigger aftershocks hot, and a huge boulder fell onto their car and killed the driver. The passenger was fine. But the weirdest thing was the passenger told them that her and her husband travel through our town, on their way to Reno, every year, and they always time their trip to go through our town, on this road, on the same day and time every year for luck. They had been doing it for 14 years. Unfortunately, that was the year that they were not very lucky. The timing, the chances, all of it still blows my mind .

25points

#18

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great grandfather lost one of his arm during WW1, right after the war he decided to ask my great grandmother to marry him. To show her how much he loved her, he decided to give her a really nice pair of shoes from a good shoemaker but lived in the countryside and cars where not that common at the time

He took his bike, rode 70km (43miles) to the closest big city to get her a really nice pair of shoes rode 70km back with the box on his lap to give it to her. WITH ONLY ONE ARM

Pretty romantic, but that's not the end of the story. The shoemaker f****d up big time and gave him 2 left shoes by accident, so great grandpa took his bike the next day, did the 70km back and forth to exchange one of the shoes. And they lived happily married ever after

Every time I tell the story to someone married, they look at their husband with disdain which I found pretty funny (never told the story to any of my girlfriends tho)

Albescents , Paul Stollery Report

Final score:

152points

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MellonCollie 1 year ago

Yes LOL I'm not sure how many dudes in love today would go through these great lengths!

37points

#19

Great grandfather was a samurai. He moved to America because samurai were becoming obsolete.

FecusTPeekusberg Report

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144points

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AffenpinscherMom 1 year ago

Well that is pretty freaking cool

48points

#20

My grandfather on my mother's side landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, combat medic who was pulled off the first landing craft because "they would need him later in the day". There's a newspaper article from the Times Picayune about him and 2 or 3 other guys, all from different perspectives. He then proceeded to work his way through France. Ended up meeting General Patton when he and another soldier accidently stumbled into the Officers mess tent. (There's a whole other story about that)

He ended up losing his leg just above the knee dragging another guy out of a mine field at the Battle of the Buldge. Made his way home. Taught my mom how to ride horses, drive a standard all the normal things. Had a farm and was also the Tax Assessor in the parish they were living in.

During the Civil Rights movement he was responsible for registering African Americans to vote and ended up having two FBI agents in his office for protection. The local Klansmen who naturally went to the same church as him, southern baptists go figure, threatened to horse whip him in the street.

The story goes that he was "summoned" and basically called them all out for being hypocrites. Told them that they can try and shake his hand in church every Sunday but he knew who every single one of the bastards was under those hoods. Then he produced a pistol from his pocket and told them that if any of em were feeling froggy then jump.

I've got more stories from my Ukrainian grandmother (dad's side) who passed away last year if anyone wants more.

Edit: spelling some words. I'm on mobile forgive me.

ScaryTerrysBitch Report

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138points

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Weim Central 1 year ago

Forgiven!

24points

#21

The only famous relative I have was barred by an act of Parliament from ever again being the warden of a prison due to massive corruption. So you have any idea how corrupt you would have to be to be specifically called out for corruption in 18th century Britain? It's kind of impressive in its own way

WttNCFrep Report

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131points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

Damn. I wonder what he did that was that bad.

33points

#22

Grandpa was shot in the head on the russian front (he was german).

He was declared dead and put on a pile of dead bodies. A friend of him (who grew up in the same village as my grandpa) went to the pile to give him the last goodbye. And he saw my grandpa was shaking a little bit. He yelled at the doctors "this man is not dead!".
And yea, the doctors got him out of the pile and actually rescued him. But they couldn't remove the bullet in his head. It was too dangerous.

So my grandpa lived with this bullet in his head his whole life.

He was not able to make a driver's license due to the risk of epileptic shocks.
He named his son (my father) after the man who rescued him.

sert_li Report

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124points

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Jake B 1 year ago

Amazing thing to live through.

18points

jakehosnerf , Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas Report

#23

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great grandfather grew up super poor in Italy. He had an infection of some sort in his arm that would kill him if untreated, and because he was poor, it was left untreated. So one day, at age 14, he and a few friends found a bottle of liquor, a tree stump, and an axe. The only pictures I've seen of him, he only has one arm

Final score:

122points

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Thee8thsense 1 year ago

Early example of DIY.

70points

#24

My great great great grandfather was part of the first generation of black people to be free in my state

edit: my great great grandfather* I added an extra great on accident

Rare302 Report

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121points

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

because he was awesome

58points

#25

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandfather owned a hardware store in downtown Bogotá when the April 9th 1948 riots.

People burned and looted places.

He had to lay down among dead bodies simulating being dead to survive and not being killed.

RealMartyMcFly , Gabriela Mendes Report

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102points

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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago

Must be terrifying

28points

#26

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History During the Partition of India in 1947, my grandmother and her family (Sikh) lived in a village with Hindus, Sikhs and 1 Muslim family.

During the brutality of it all, people in the village wanted to attack the Muslim family but my great grandfather intervened and stopped them from being hurt. He then helped them leave the village to make their way to Pakistan from the Indian side of the Punjab where my grandmother’s village was. We still do not know to this day what happened to the Muslim family and whether they survived.

CricketMan1 , Nobel127 Report

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96points

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Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago

The biggest tragedy to be inflicted on Indian souls...

29points

#27

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great grandfather came home early from work one day to find his wife in bed with the milk man(or mail man. I can’t remember). Either way, there was a scuffle and the milk/mail man went out the bedroom window and died 2 days later in the hospital. This happened in the same house that I grew up in because the house was in my family for a very long time.

I tried looking up news articles and such on the incident but was never able to find anything. This was a common discussion at parties with my family and I always tried to learn more about my great grandfather. Turns out he was an undertaker. Go figure.

Yowz3rs87 , cottonbro studio Report

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93points

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Tee Rat 1 year ago

Was grandpa having a slow work week?

33points

#28

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History Great grandad was a jewish shop owner in Italy in the1930s. One day a fascist March turns into a lynch mob chasing a communist. The communist slips away, finds my family's shop, and begs for shelter because jews are known commie sympathizers. But a gun welding fascist comes to the store looking for him, because he knew it was owned by jews and jews are known commie sympathizers. My great grand dad denies hiding the commie, but the fascist says if they don't bring him out immediately he'll shoot my great grand dad. So great grand dad snatches the gun and kills the fascist on the spot. He got acquitted for self defense but they had to escape Italy 24 hrs after the acquittal, the fascist party graciously sent a notice allowing them 24 hrs to leave before they killed all the men of the family.

icqchic , Taylor Brandon Report

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MellonCollie 1 year ago

Very kind of the fascists to give them time to save themselves.

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#29

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History I have two that are somehow connected

My great grandfather, during WW2, lived through some wild s**t. He was sent to gulag and escaped from the transport somewhere in today's Belarus. He then returned home on foot, to the middle of northern Poland where we live today (if you want more exact location, google where my town, Tczew, is). After few years, in middle of which my grandpa was born, he was taken to serve in German army. He was based somewhere in Norway and escaped once again, but not before he blew up the warehouse with weapons he was kinda in charge off.

On a lighter, funny af note. He was one of 13 children. His mother (my great great grandmother) named her second child Stanisław and named her last child... Stanisław. She had so many children that she forgot she already used that name lol. The second Stanisław sadly didn't live through infancy

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Jake B 1 year ago

What a family!

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#30

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandma (mother's side) was abandoned in an orphanage by my great grandmother because she wanted to run off and marry another man, and he would not take her children. So my great grandfather, who was in the army during WW1, came to see them and promised to come back after the next battle. It was the somme, he died.

The same grandmother did not know how old she was, by the time she obtained a copy of her birth certificate later in life, she found out she was a year older than she thought she was.

My Dad's Grandfather was an advertising artist, semi famous at the time, there is an original of his passed down in our family, it is with my dad's oldest brother now. It is of a boy running down a famous road in my northern city past a famous theatre still being used to this day.

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Toxic 1 year ago

I don't like people who'd chose a significant other over their kid(s)

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Although she's not an ancestor, I have a couple of stories about Miss Ada, the woman who helped raise my mom.

She came from a very poor Black family in North Carolina. Her father had been a slave. They lived in a cabin with a packed-dirt floor. She still lived there when we visited her in the early '60s, and thinking back, I believe it might have once been a slave cabin.

When Miss Ada was a little girl, one Christmas Eve she peeked through a crack in the plaster between the rooms of the cabin and saw her parents setting out a doll that was to be her present from Santa. But her parents caught her peeking, and on Christmas Day she got nothing but sticks and ashes in her stocking, as a punishment for spying. This story broke my heart when I was little, but Mom said they finally gave her the doll on New Year's Day.

Another time she was walking along the railroad tracks to school when somebody told her the circus was in town. She wanted to see the elephant, so she stashed her spelling book by the tracks and ran off. When she came back, the book was gone, and she got a licking when she went home.

When she got pregnant at the age of 16, her father took all her clothes and threw them out into the road. I'm not sure what happened immediately after that, but her mother raised the baby until Miss Ada was older. Censuses show that after her father died, Miss Ada was living with her mother and son.

Not long after her son was born, she went to work for my grandparents. My grandfather was a doctor and was often away, and they had five kids. Then my grandmother died and Miss Ada continued to watch over the kids. She told me that every morning before my mom and aunts and uncles went to school, they lined up to kiss her goodbye.

I have a tape recording I made of her in the 1970s when we visited her in the hospital. She was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

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Francine Oglethorpe 1 year ago

What a beautiful story of Ms. Ada

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#32

My grandfather was doing construction work in the midwest US in the early 60s. One day on a job site, he found a small tin box buried in the ground. He stuffed it in his coat or shirt, out of sight, and told no one until he got home, where he told my grandmother. For fear it had been a stash belonging to a nefarious character that might come looking, they decided to “keep it secret. Keep it safe.” (Gandalf the Grey)

They encased it in a closed cement cinderblock and left it in a corner of the garage. They never even told their daughter (my mother) what was inside the tin secreted away in the cinderblock in the corner of the garage.

Years later, in the late 60s, my grandfather passed away when my mother was 17 or 18. The cinderblock was forgotten, and sat for decades in the corner of the garage.

Now, skip forward to the early 2010’s. My mother, now married to my father for almost 40 years still did not know about the stash. My grandmother, now in her 90s, had a decline in health and had to sell her home and move into a senior living facility. Because of her poor health, she was not able to be present at her home for moving-day. She told my dad several times, in no unclear terms, “Make sure you take the cinderblock in the corner of the garage. It’s very valuable.” So of course, my dad very nearly forgets about it and/or shrugs it off as the ravings of an unwell 90-year-old woman.

At the last second, as we’re shutting the U-haul door, he remembers the block and his mother-in-law’s words. He sighs, opens the truck, and sets the block inside. The cinderblock eventually ends up, you guessed it, in the corner of my parents’ garage. Forgotten again.

Several years pass, and in September of ‘12 or ‘13, so does my grandmother. Thanksgiving comes around (late November) and my parents and all their kids are home. My dad tells us he has a surprise for us and takes us into the garage where there’s a cinderblock sitting on the floor with a hammer, chisel, a sledgehammer, and a few other miscellaneous tools.

The cement was old and pretty brittle and just a few taps in the right spot cracked it open. Inside? A dirty old rotted cloth, wrapped loosely around the dingy tin my grandfather found over five decades prior.

We opened the tin and what we discovered… it was completely full of gold coins. My brother-in-law was a bit of a coin collector and identified a few right then, saying they had some significant value. I don’t know how much it really added up to—my parents kept financial information to themselves and it was their property—but just on the weight of the gold alone, we estimated their value around $250,000. It would be more if any of the coins had any value for collectors.

I guess my grandma actually had this story left to my mom and dad in a letter when she passed and that’s how we learned the full details of how it happened when the cinderblock had seemed forgotten for so long.

Hope you enjoyed!

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

And I was so sure it would turn out to be a singing frog! https://youtu.be/6OCzxCHMrpU

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#33

My grandfather escaped Residential school (Canada) on horseback

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Good for him!

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“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History Che Guevara taught my grandfather to play chess.

His father used to get into bar fights with Pancho Villa.

And my family’s last name exists because two Scottish brothers got drunk, stole a cannon from the local militia armory, and accidentally shot the steeple off the local church. While hauling a*s out of Scotland, they told their kids “if anyone asks who you are, just say you’re German and pretend you don’t know English” they didn’t know German either.

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Linden 1 year ago

These are the people who make genealogical research so difficult! 😂

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“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My grandpa beat Rod Laver in a tennis match when he was a teenager and was going to be sponsored by Dunlop but his parents were wealthy and thought tennis was silly with little money at the time so he didn’t pursue it… now there’s a stadium named after rod laver :(

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MellonCollie 1 year ago

Yikes, that's ironic.

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#36

Mountain goat pushed my great great uncle off a cliff

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

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#37

My paternal grandparents each had an interesting story about WW2 (note, I'm German).

My grandfather worked as a junior communications officer on an U-Boat rescue frigate, one day a fellow seaman asked him to switch shifts/tasks, and as he was leaving the comms room an enemy shell landed pretty much right where he'd sat just moments before, killing everyone in the comms room, he had shrapnel from the explosion all over his back until the day he died.

My grandma was born in East Germany, after the war ended and East Germany was pretty much swarming with Russian soldiers with payback on their mind, her mom decided to pack up what was left of her family (dad was missing/dead), abandon their home and move to one of the Western Allies' Zones. According to my grandma, her mom spent a lot of money and family heirlooms to get cigarettes to trade for safe passage, and one time on their flight they were caught in the woods by a squad of Russian soldiers. To paraphrase grandma, her mother went away with them to give them cigarettes so they'd let her family pass (Which is... possibly what happened, but, you know, the Russian troops occupying Germany after the war certainly had a... reputation), at any rate, they were indeed let go and safely made it to south Germany.

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Isa Bella 1 year ago

Russian soldiers were pigs. I am sorry that the great grandmother had to endure r a p e.

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#38

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History One of my great-grandmother climbed on top of mount Blanc in 1942, during the German occupation of France.
On top of that, she did it while wearing a dress. We have pictures of it in my family

Edit because people ask for pictures: my grandparents have it in paper format and I don't have access to it easily, so I can't share it with you for now.
If one day I can obtain it in a numerical format, I promise that I will put it here (if I haven't forgotten)

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Jake B 1 year ago

Dresses if the right kind are underrated. Cool Great Grandma.

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#39

My Grandfather came from a small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and had rarely left the state when he volunteered to fight in WW2.

Pretty soon he was on a plane to Midway from Pearl. He’s sitting next to a man he doesn’t know for an hour before the copilot comes back and asks the man next to him, “Admiral Lindbergh would you like to fly the plane?”.

At that time Charles Lindbergh was possibly the most famous man on earth. It is on brand for my Grandpa to be fairly unimpressed by him.

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panther 1 year ago

Considering some of his beliefs I'm not impressed with him either.

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My family lived in Deerfield Massachusetts in 1704 when the town was attacked by Indians who were allied with the French. My many-times-great-grandfather’s wife was killed, his toddler daughter was killed, and his remaining children (along with about 100 others) were captured and marched to Canada where they were held captive for several years until their father and other members of the community ransomed them.

When they returned, they were often visited by Indians with whom they’d become close, and the town eventually awarded the son I’m descended from and his sister plots of land in appreciation for the goodwill that bought.

One daughter was 17 when captured and had been on the verge of marrying a young man from the town who wasn’t captured. Believing her dead, he married someone else. She eventually married and had a family.

But many years later, when they were both in their 70s, they both found themselves widowed and they married each other.

I’ve always loved that story.

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Tuna Beach 1 year ago

Indigenous.

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#41

My great grandmother was reportedly the oldest woman to ever live in Lebanon. Depending on who you ask she was anywhere between 112-118 years old. She’s commemorated on a stamp, so I guess the government acknowledged that the claim was true. Interestingly enough she was a short morbidly obese woman almost her entire life.

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Francine Oglethorpe 1 year ago

Well hey now, short people rule.e

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#42

My grandad was an engineer for the British army in Egypt during world war 2.

He and a buddy got drunk one time and slept in this small town, when they awoke they discovered the Germans had taken over the town. So they evaded capture and discovered an old plane that required matainence, the two ended up repairing the plane and flew it over German lines and into Allied territory.

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Olive Harper 1 year ago

That's a cool story.

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#43

My great grandfather hunted down and killed 3 men who were responsible for killing his brother.

My family on my grandmothers side comes from somewhere in Italy. Well way back in the day, my great grandfather and his brother owned a renovation and restoration business. The were hired to do some work in the Sistine chapel along with a second team that was meant to set up the equipment they would be using; scaffolding and stuff like that. Well at one point they had gotten in an argument and the other contractors chose to roll back some of their safety features on their scaffolding and when my great uncle was working the scaffolding gave out and he fell and died on the floor of the Sistine chapel.

The 3 men on the other crew fled before the accident prompting my great grandfather to hunt them down across Italy and kill them off one by one. When he finally returned home several days later and confessed everything to his mother, she ordered him to flee to the United States so he wouldn't get arrested. And he did.

That's how that part of my family came to America.

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Jake B 1 year ago

Love a great immigrant story!

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#44

My great-nan's surname was Bligh, and she was descended from William Bligh who was in command of HMS Bounty during the mutiny, and later a Governor of New South Wales.

I can't remember exactly, but my family has ancestral ties to Jonathan Swift who wrote Gulivers Travels.

When we were cleaning out my grandfather's house after he died we found schematics, parts and a thank you letter for the car that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was based on. Turns out his dad was an engineer who built it for the Lord who raced it.

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AffenpinscherMom 1 year ago

Just reminded me of that movie I used to watch as a kid.

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#45

I had an ancestor who was a witch and people used to come see her to treat their ills

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Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago

She was a medicine woman i assume. back then, women with knowledge were deemed witches

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#46

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History My great Gramdpa once got his hands on 10kg of tobacco because a smuggler threw it away while being chased by the border guards

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One of many 1 year ago

now THATS a lot of tobacco

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#47

My grandpa almost died from an infection when he was 8 and only survived because the owners of the house he worked in (my grandpa would run errands for them) payed for his medicine (which was A LOT of money). My grandpa would visit them every weekend until they died.

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PandaGoPanda 1 year ago

That's such nice story.

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#48

I recently did an Ancestry DNA test. I highly recommend to everyone. Very interesting. My grandmother’s side traces back mid 1600’s to the very first colonists of Canada. Turns out I’m part Native American too. I’m a descendant of a few people who have their own Wikipedia pages: chief great buffalo, Francois Dauphinais and Marie-Claude Chamois.

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Amy Taylor 1 year ago

Mine was split right down the middle.. Italian and Polish.. my dad, however, found out at age 77 that his father was his family friend, and not the main who raised him. Since his parents had both already passed, he asked his aunt about it and she was dumbfounded that he never knew.

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#49

The woman who adopted my mother is part of the Vavasour family .. An ancient Norman family dating back to the time of William the conqueror..

Also found out my great grandfather on my mothers side was a serial bigamist (The more you know)

My Great uncle on my fathers side took a grenade to the face during the World War (Horrific Injury) and ended up homeless on the streets, Funnily enough the same streets i was homeless on a few years back but i didn't know at the time.

My life is very unusual, maybe i should write a book

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Jake B 1 year ago

Write the book.

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#50

I'm 34 but my paternal grandfather was born in 1895. He got shot through both knees sideways in Belgium during World War I then had to limp miles to safety... Sounds impossible but I have a newspaper article about it! His brother also survived WWI, only to die in the Spanish flu pandemic. Sadly my grandfather died quite a while before I was born.

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Debby Keir 1 year ago

I'm in my 70's. Paternal grandfather born in 1880 (I remember him) Father born 1918 - eldest child). Maternal grandmother born 1875 (remmember her) - mother born 1919 - youngest child. My youngest was 30 last week....

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#51

My great great great great grandfather was abducted my pirates as a boy and raised as one… in Canada. They were river brigands. My mom has a book on him. Her parents were from czechoslovakian and germany though so I’m not sure how that happened. I always told people I was part pirate though.

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Chewie Baron 1 year ago

Y’arrr!

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#52

My grandfather was was taken in by the Nazis to fight the US on the western front in WWII when he was 17 years old. His commanding officer was given the order to fight to the last man (or child) but refused and told his men to surrender.

So my grandfather was put in a POW camp where he became chess master of the camp and escaped during a transfer by rolling of the back of a truck. He tried walking back home to Germany but was caught on the border and put back in prison until he was 21 and then finally released.

He then proceeded to *walk* home where everybody lost their s**t because they thought he was dead.

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#53

I’ll put one of mine on here too. My great grand uncle had Down syndrome, so his mother asked one of his brothers to look after him and in return she would give him the house in her will. When their mother died, he pretty much immediately sent him to a care home and did not bother looking after him at all. Funnily enough, this turned out to suit both of them very well as at the care home my great grand uncle ended up getting on very well with another woman with Down syndrome, and his brother got the house to himself. All’s well that ends well I guess.

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Olive Harper 1 year ago

Sad that the one brother just sent the other away, but glad it turned out well.

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#54

A great uncle lied about his age (too young) too join WW1. He again lied about his age (too old) to fight in WW2

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PandaGoPanda 1 year ago

My great-grandfather signed up aged 12 (said he was 16, but he was only 4'11" on enlistment so they must surely have realised).

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#55

My 11th. great grandfather, on my paternal ancestry line, was a sheriff and a blacksmith in a small town east of Norway. In the middle of the 1600s there was a witch trial where around a dosen people were accused of witchcraft. He had to arrest and hurry to make shackles for all of them. All of the accused was aquitted.

Another branch of my paternal ancestry can also likely be traced to a norwegian noble who was executed for rebelling against the danish king some time during the 1500s.

Also, on my maturnal ancestry side, several of my forfathers were executioners. One of last executions i Norway, was performed by my 7th. great grandfather, and it was the beheading of one of the countrys most notorious serial killer. It took for axe chops and sawing to get the killers head removed, because the executioner was old and likely had Parkinsons. This particular execution sparked a lot of controversy and was one of the catalysts for later abolishing public executions in Norway. After that my 6th. great grandfather took over as executioner.

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

This is wild

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#56

“My Great Grandfather Found His Wife In Bed With The Milkman”: People Share 30 Of The Coolest And Funniest Facts From Their Family History If you trace my family line back far enough you get to Norwegian royalty. Second son of a third son, kind of thing.

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MellonCollie 1 year ago

If you trace my family line far enough back, you get to Charlemagne. But I suppose many people's family lines can be traced back to him.

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#57

One of my ancestors was Curly Bill Brocious, the leader of the infamous Cowboys gang which fought against the Earps in and around Tombstone Arizona in the 1870s/80s. He was killed by Wyatt Earp himself by a shotgun blast that reportedly tore him in two.

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Earp had a pistol, the shotgun was Doc Holliday's.

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#58

My mom and and my stepdad share an ancestor about four generations back.

Also somewhere in this range my great[x?]-grandma received a letter from her brother that had left Austria. He said "Come to America. If not for your sake, then for your children's sake." She talked her husband into it, they moved to the Midwest, and several generations later I was born.

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#59

I have an ancestor who, in Victorian England, spent time in an asylum for the criminally insane for having stolen diamond jewelry from his employer.

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Sunny Day 1 year ago

Bedlam?

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#60

My grandfather went for Hajj (pilgrimage) to Saudi.

It is a religious requirement for men to get balded for pilgrimage.

The barbers were too expensive.

A random stranger outside the barber's shop offered to cut his hair for cheap.

The stranger took him to an alley.

He was balded from one side when a police constable yelled at him.

The stranger ran and grandpa had to run around the city balded only from one side.

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Debby Keir 1 year ago

Is it illegal to cut hair without a shop/licence?????

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#61

great grandpa's father was a soldier during WWI. As they were often out of resources (that includes ammo), due to Russian Empire's failure to meet logistic needs, they'd hide under small wooden bridges and wait for germans to patrol over it, then stab their feet through the gaps on the wood with their bayonets. The soldier obviously would fall to the ground, then to be quickly killed.

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#62

I don’t know the date’s exactly off the top of my head but they’re written down at home.

My Great Grandfather (Grandmas dad) was born in the Black Hills Germany. He allegedly killed a german officer and went on the lam to the United States. He worked as a ranch hand for Theodore Roosevelt for a some years before he married my Great Grandma. He was gifted a buffalo rifle from Roosevelt which was taken by one of grandmas brothers after their dad died.

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#63

My great grandfather killed my great grandmother's suitor and kidnapped her a night before her wedding.

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Tuna Beach 1 year ago

Uhmmmmmm

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My grandparents lived in cologne in the end of war. During an attack my grandfather went back to the house, and was hit. Seems the wound caused an infection. Shortly afterwards the Americans took over cologne, and someone talked to them and told them that he had been against the Nazis, and had even lost his job because of that, and they gave him the medicine (penicillin) that probably saved him. I wish they hadn't, not being a Nazi was his only redeeming quality and he had a very negative impact on many lives.

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Arte the Kitty 1 year ago

so you wanted your grandfather to die? correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems very confusing to me

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#65

Not sure what his title would be (great great uncle? Great great great grandpa?) but my family went through a whole genetic testing/heritage phase a few years back and everyone was getting tests and looking into our families history.

Well apparently on my dads side of the family if I go back far enough I’m related to some kind of high ranking officer in the Russian military from before communism took power. We found *some* travel papers showing his path west and some more from US immigrations where he pledged his allegiance to the US and renounced his old loyalty to Tsar Nicholas.

I think his name got changed too I forget, I have some copies of those papers and a copy of a old picture showing the boat he used to get across the Atlantic

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#66

My family hasn't found out the direct connection just yet, but I'm related to the dude who played the king in Abbott and Costello's version of *Jack and the Beanstalk*

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#67

My Grandmother on my Father's side recounted how she and her Sisters would scout for supplies way back during WW2. Apparently they had to survive on bread crusts alone for weeks... And I think she was a nurse on the field for a little while? I can't remember it well, and while she never objected to telling those stories, I don't think she's in a state where reminding her of that would do her health much good.

And I think my other Grandma's Brother (Uncle Grandpa?? I just call him Grandpa Sasha) ate way too much ice cream way back when, got horribly sick, and it messed up his voice, or something. Last we spoke, he did sound pretty raspy, too. Though it could be something he and Grandma made up as a bit to warn little me against eating too much ice cream...

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Svelk929 1 year ago (edited)

Idk if it’s interesting but great great grandfather had a stadium in Ecuador named after him and has his own Wikipedia page

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Interesting to me! My family is largely very, very boring, though a couple towns are named after some. Not a big deal in the US, since they were named that because, well, nobody else lived there, LOL.

3points

Elita One 1 year ago (edited)

My several times great grandfather, a filthy rich man, owned a very successful brickworks near the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney (only a few of the original kilns remain preserved in a small park where the building once stood) One day the Sydney council decided to reclaim the land (which he rightfully owned) to build railways for the new steam trains. He wasn't compensated and the factory was torn down with only the few kilns left and he was left to gamble away his vast fortune in sorrow. Or so my family always said. While cleaning out some stuff in my grandparents house after my grandmother died my parents found some quite old letters stashed away in a junk filled cupboard. They turned out to be from his great granddaughter who remembered him and brickworks as a child and the truth of what happend to him. He took the Sydney council to court over the reclamation but lost then took the case to the High Court of Australia but lost again.

6points

Elita One 1 year ago

In a last ditch attempt to save it, he sailed to England and took the case to the Supreme Court of The United Kingdom, but sadly lost. He never lost his money from gambling, he was trying to save his business.

5points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago

I don't know which is cooler: that I'm descended from the House of Rohan, or that there actually is a House of Rohan.

5points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago

BONUS: It was founded by Meriadoc, so I'm part Brandybuck, too!

1point

Shane S 1 year ago

My grandfather was a blue collar worker in the southern oil fields and he told stories of having Native American colleagues. After work, he and the boys would go to the town liquor store only there would be a sign in the window that said “No Indians”. This was because there’s a common myth that native Americans are predisposed to alcoholism and can’t handle their liquor. So the native Americans would wait outside and try to coerce white workers to buy for them. The sadly ironic part of this is that my grandfather was a very serious alcoholic. My grandparents slept separately and after he passed away, we found all kinds of liquor bottles stashed and hidden around the house. The liquor store was selling to the wrong person.

4points

Rachel Reynolds 1 year ago

I knew my mother did time in Federal prison in the 60s for sneaking people across the border to avoid the draft. It wasn't until David Crosby and Stephen Stills showed up the her funeral that I learned she used their tour van to do it.

3points

Jennifer Clark 1 year ago

My uncle had a crazy roommate in college at OSU. He was moody, irrational, and drank constantly. He once ripped the top off of a roommate's dresser to steal money from the locked top drawer. Years later my uncle found out that the guy had been arrested for killing and eating several people. The roommate was Jeffrey Dahmer.

3points

The Doom Song 1 year ago

Okay that's so messed up but also cool

1point

Lara Verne 1 year ago

My grandfather was born in 1920s in Czechoslovakia. As WWII started, Nazis taken a lot of young men to Germany and Austria, where they were forced to work in factories. My grandfather was one of them. He managed to escape in 1944, and returned to his home town, where he was hiding in friend's house until the end of the war. After WWII ended, people, who were forced to work in german factories, got financial compensation. Grandfather got nothing, because he escaped.

3points

Bryan Hamilton 1 year ago

My grandfather was left on somebody's front porch who ended up raising him and the whole family were bank robbers. My grandfather drove the get-away car on the jobs until they were caught. He spent 12 years in prison before being released and becoming a barber for the military in trade for his release.

2points

Tiny Dancer 1 year ago

My father was adopted and never wanted to look into his background at all, which always kind of frustrated me, an only child as well. Turns out, local scuttlebutt says he was the product of a local big-wig's "affair" with the maid.

2points

Ella M 1 year ago

My grandma grew up on a dairy farm in Oregon. There's a road near the Tillamook Cheese Factory that was named after her family (so it had her maiden name) when I was younger, because their farm was the only thing on it. The sign has been taken down now, so she says it technically isn't called that anymore. Also, the Tillamook Cheese Factory has a public museumish area that you can visit, and on a wall there is a quote from one of my ancestors (maybe my great-great-grandfather?).

2points

Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago

Not my story (my sister's ex) but I always find it interesting: poor family living in Amsterdam during WWII. They were low on money, had no food, and finally decided that they needed to kill an abandoned horse that had been tied up nearby. The father and sons went in the night time with only a kitchen knife. Unfortunately, they thought they could do it quick and easily but the horse fought back. Eventually they were able to do the deed and took home a good supply of meat. Unfortunately, that same week, two German soldiers came in to check their home. They noticed the plate of meat on the counter, asked the mother how they afforded it. She told them she had sold her wedding ring for it. They confiscated it. Not a cheery tale but interesting.

2points

Misfit 1 year ago

My 4th great grandfather was shot and then cut up with a corn knife and then thrown down a well.

2points

Fabian Bernard 1 year ago

Mine is less prestigious: my Polish great aunt ended up eaten by her own dog on her lost in the woods cabin, where she lived miserabily, while his son ( great cousin) was an influent member of the Polish communist politic police. He was jailed at the fall of dictatorship in the 90's for what he did

2points

Amy Taylor 1 year ago

This was my great uncle. He was my paternal grandmother’s brother and I adored him. I had no idea about the criminal part of the story until I was an adult.. https://cms335blog.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/war-hero-or-criminal-the-life-of-pasquale-patsy-passero/

2points

A Tired Panda 1 year ago

My great great grandfather was a child going through Ellis island and had measles (or some other things that gives you spots) and used make up to cover it up and he actually got through either him or my great grandfather also jumped off a building during the great depression but survived so that's cool

2points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Huh. All my great grandparents were just farmers.

1point

Nezuko_Chan 1 year ago

I’ve got one my great great great (I think) grandfather owned the first taxi service in harpersville and I’m pretty sure the first taxi too

1point

Steven de Jong 1 year ago

"My grandfather was believed to be [ended]?" What the actual f**k is wrong with people. Let's not say anything that might shock anyone and the problem goes away?

1point

Shane S 1 year ago

I think people are afraid of BP flagging their post because the algorithm doesn’t like language that can be seen as threatening. They aren’t doing it to be politically correct but to avoid the censor.

3points

Ingrid Jeffers 1 year ago

My great-great-great-great (idk how many greats) uncle was William Clark, from the Luis and Clark expedition.

0points

Cala Wolf 1 year ago

My great great grandfather came from Italy, stabbed a man who was attacking him, hid in a water tower for 3 days, was found, was released, went insane, returned to Italy, and was beaten to death by the mafia.

0points

Jennifer Brown 1 year ago

My grandfather was in the navy when WWII broke out. He came down with the flu and was hospitalized in November of 1941. The rest of his crew was deployed to Honolulu, HI. The entire crew died on December 7, 1941. My grandfather suffered from survivor's guilt his entire life.

0points

Ronnie Beaton 1 year ago

My late father served in the British Merchant Navy during WWII. During one voyage, the ship he was on was torpedoed by a u-boat. After some time in the Atlantic, dad and the other survivors were rescued and taken back to the nearest friendly port - which happened to be dad's home town. After being checked out by doctors, dad was allowed to go home on leave - however, he didn't have any clean clothes, was still wearing the what he had on when his ship had sunk, and the bus driver wouldn't let him on the nice clean bus. Dad walked home, and got to his street just as the telegram say he was MIA was handed to his mother.

0points

Arachnid 1 year ago

My great grandpa worked as an engineer on the saturn IV rocket, and well as worked on the B2 spirit

0points

similarly 1 year ago

One of my favorite stories is that after my Grandma passed away, my Dad was going through her things and found a WWII military driver's license, certifying her to drive 2 1/2 ton (Deuce and a Half) trucks. Nobody in the family had ever known that she had secretly been driving trucks for the Army during the War. Of course, this would have to have been "stateside" and not overseas, but I often wonder what work she was doing during the war that would have had her driving trucks. Still, she was a strong, adventurous woman, and I can just imagine her having a ball driving those big trucks.

0points

SofiaB 1 year ago

My grandfather was a street boxer in the 1920s in Milwaukee Wisconsin! He lived to be 98 years old and was very strong and hard-working up until he had a stroke at 90 years old. He even built a house for him & my grandma to retire in all by himself when he was in his early 80s. I had always admired my grandpa when when he told me stories about his life as a street fighter in his youth, I thought he was the coolest!

0points

Julie 1 year ago

Cornplanter is my grandfather.

0points

Ella M 1 year ago (edited)

Also, one of my friends is related to Aaron Burr, and another one of my friends is related to Queen Elizabeth I.

0points

Shane S 1 year ago

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Svelk929 1 year ago (edited)

Idk if it’s interesting but great great grandfather had a stadium in Ecuador named after him and has his own Wikipedia page

8points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

3points

Elita One 1 year ago (edited)

6points

Elita One 1 year ago

5points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago

I don't know which is cooler: that I'm descended from the House of Rohan, or that there actually is a House of Rohan.

5points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago

BONUS: It was founded by Meriadoc, so I'm part Brandybuck, too!

1point

Shane S 1 year ago

4points

Rachel Reynolds 1 year ago

3points

Jennifer Clark 1 year ago

3points

The Doom Song 1 year ago

Okay that's so messed up but also cool

1point

Lara Verne 1 year ago

3points

Bryan Hamilton 1 year ago

2points

Tiny Dancer 1 year ago

2points

Ella M 1 year ago

2points

Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago

2points

Misfit 1 year ago

My 4th great grandfather was shot and then cut up with a corn knife and then thrown down a well.

2points

Fabian Bernard 1 year ago

2points

Amy Taylor 1 year ago

2points

A Tired Panda 1 year ago

2points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Huh. All my great grandparents were just farmers.

1point

Nezuko_Chan 1 year ago

I’ve got one my great great great (I think) grandfather owned the first taxi service in harpersville and I’m pretty sure the first taxi too

1point

Steven de Jong 1 year ago

"My grandfather was believed to be [ended]?" What the actual f**k is wrong with people. Let's not say anything that might shock anyone and the problem goes away?

1point

Shane S 1 year ago

3points