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Family Tree Story

uniquely-ironic posted on May 24, 2007 | views: 297 | Tags: family, trouble, notorious, Indian, Gypsy, STRANGE, uncle
I just read an online article that says that ancestry.com has free access to it's databases until June 6 (D-day). 
 
For kicks and giggles I did a few look ups.  I had heard rumors that my grampa was in the Marines during WWI and it turns out that that is right.  Unfortunately he got booted out as undesireable due to that pesky civil conviction for robbery.  It seems they had to send his discharge papers to San Quentin.  Somehow he managed to go AWOL from Quantico and end up in jail in California.  Way to go grampa!  But, he's family and you gotta love them anyways.
 
I always knew he came from "wild" breeding stock, but this is really funny.  Who is the most notorious person in your family?


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  • silverwhisper said on May 25, 2007....
    um...i honestly don't know that i have anyone notorious in my family, i'm afraid.

    ed
  • uniquely-ironic said on May 25, 2007....
    SW - Really?  Seems that if you dig deep enough you should run across someone.
  • mommyof2 said on May 26, 2007....
    In my family tree books there's a pic of an indian woman, story is she was kidnapped and made to marry and bare the children of some rich ass in our tree.
  • kingcobra said on May 27, 2007....
    I am to scared to look!!!!!..............but I will and report back here....
  • uniquely-ironic said on May 27, 2007....
    mommy - that's so sad, but at the same time you have to know that she was quite a woman to survive an ordeal like that.
     
    king - have fun looking.
  • mommyof2 said on May 29, 2007....
    Yes uni we all proudly add indian to our heritage when asked.
  • tamareesperes12 said on May 31, 2007....
    My father.......my real father. He spent 7 years in state pen for embezzlement. He had fake diamond mines in Africa but they never caught him so they waited and waited. Finally he robbed several banks and got turned in on one job by a shady friend looking for a way out of doing extra time. He had millions and traveled to Amsterdam and all of Eastern Europe. Hungarians have that Gypsy blood I suppose :) Yea, my life is very strange.......I should write a book. 
  • uniquely-ironic said on May 31, 2007....
    tamaree - that is interesting.  It's good to have at least one black sheep in the family.  It takes the pressure off big time.  Yes, your book would be interesting, since truth is often stranger than fiction.
  • Nowteam said on Jun 12, 2007....
    I had an uncle who married several different women in different states without divorcing anyone of them. They did not know about each other. He also had several children by women he was not married to. Unbelievable huh?

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