Jules Ashbach: Here is an interesting one. When I married my husband, no one had researched his genealogy. In fact, neither his mom nor his dad could tell me ANYTHING about their family. I asked my father in law if his parents had any siblings and he said that his mom was one of about 10 children and that his dad only had one brother.Anyway, I started ordering death certificates and obituaries for my husbands grandparents and when I received the obituary for my father in law's father, it mentioned 4 half-siblings. I questioned my father in law and he said that he didn't know about them. I thought that this was peculiar since my father in law was an adult when his father died. Anyway, I tried to track down these half siblings knowing that they were up there in years. I finally got a hold of one of the half sisters in Michigan. (My father in law is from Texas) We started talking and she asked where I was and I told her that I lived near Fort Worth, Texas. She tol! d me that one of her sons lived near Fort Worth and worked in a machine shop. I immediately mentioned that my father in law and him had a lot in common because he too worked in a machine shop. It turned out that my father in law and her son worked in the SAME machine shop for twenty years and never knew that they were half first cousins. They had the same GRANDFATHER! The half sister told me that she spent several years trying to track down "Jaspers boys" but was never able to locate them. She said that my phone call was an answer to a prayer. She is going to be 89 this year. How often does that happen? Now they are at all of our family functions! Yes, pursuing ones genealogy can yield lots of suprises. It sure keeps life interesting!!...Show more
Bryant Pillitteri: My ancestors have been between the Acadians that the British deported whilst they broke up families of French farmers because of the fact they feared they have been turning out to be too multipl! e and rich and can become a possibility to the British adminis! tration. This handed off in Canada, 18th century i believe. The (fictional) tale of the ordeal for between the couples is advised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, "Evangeline: tale of Acadie." printed in 1847...Show more
Chet Nozick: One of my ancestors, way back around 1693 was a boy living in Scotland. He and his friends found an earthen pot that held some cash. One of his friends' fathers told my ancestor Charles to fetch his own father, so they could divvy up the loot. On his way home, Charles ran into a man on a horse, and after hearing the story, the man offered him a lift home. Instead of making it back home, the man kidnapped Charles and put him on a boat headed to Philadelphia, and he subsequently lived in the American colonies his whole life and never knew what the kidnapper's reasoning had been. That's a story I read that was written by a gggreat uncle of mine (Charles' great great grandson) in the 1800s. I figure the story was passed down to him.! .. Good thing he wrote it down!...Show more
Lawanna Livsey: LAST NAME PINSONNEAULTwell, im doing a fr. canadian history course right now...and after reading some of my text i decided to read into my family history...so i opened up my massive family hisotry book thingthe first Pinsonneault came to Canada in 1665 with Jean Talon as an engages and would later decide to stay in canadaMostly all pinsonneault's in Canada (mostly southern ontario, manitoba, quebec) and the US (mostly New Orleans, chicago and New England) Come from this pinsonneault1665,...thats a long time...it will be exactly 350 yrs as of 2015 that he first arrived here...Show more
Samatha Nicar: No not really just that my really posh mum in law had a g/g/grandad who was incarcerated at her Majesty's pleasure, and his brother was a road sweeper and a scavenger by profession. The look on her face was priceless when I gave her, her Christmas present a copy of her family tree going back to 1730, with! these two darlings amongst them. Best research I have ever done, and t! he best by far information uncovered.
Vita Moodie: Would you mind TELLING me?
Clare Hoard: I found my great aunt by searching online. She told me about my grandfather that left town after 11 days of marriage. He was 21. Grandmother was 13.
Rosalyn Olivera: (Granny, tell us a stooooory!)I have. Many more than one but one's all you're getting.Take the first generation lad born here of a Scotch-Irish immigrant da (yes they talked funny and that IS how they said it when they came over). Seems he volunteered up for the Revolution but took offense at an officer who called him a dog before witnesses (this fact and the rest of the story is all documented in court and other historical records over time). He took his sword (no I don't know how big the sword was or what became of it) and poked it into said officer's coat collar and caused said officer to sort of dangle because the officer was still inside the coat. In a while, things were busy then and courts not eas! y to come by during the business of wartime, the officer had Complained. Witnesses testified that the officer did make that nasty comment. Apparently that dinna matter since he was the officer. When it was all over my ancestor was fined for his offense, the poking and dangling thing.My ancestor refused to pay and was jailed. He appealed to the court that he had a wife, 3 children, a farm and livestock that needed his attention. The next part I haven't found the exact court records but apparently he was put onto some kind of work-release program. My stubborn Scot (well, half-Scot, his mother was of Palatine German stock) ancestor died 40-some years later in that county jail. He refused for the rest of his life to pay in US Dollars that fine that was assessed in Brit Pounds. When he died he had 13 living children - 10 more than the original 3. And that's a True Story. (Part of our infant nation's history is that for a while during & after the Revolution this new nation had no! money of its own. Some States issued their own money & various other w! ays. That even had part to do with Shay's Rebellion.)Should I ever get a Time Machine that's one old coot I want to meet and have a good laugh with! Oh mmm and maybe ask where that sword got to. I also thought to get there for real some time to find out if anyone ever paid his fine and pay it if it's not been forgiven. No I will not! He died there to make his point.Time for my little pot of tea....Show more
Ezekiel Kadner: Well, I was going through a book about records in North Carolina. I saw where one man was caught stealing from the Royal Governor's beehive. Probably it was humiliating to his family at the time but his descendants today looking at it, would, no doubt, find it funny.
Cody Petrulis: William Balfour (My Great Grandfather x 8)was authorized 20 pounds by a Treasury of England, in order to go to Virginia as a minister on January 29, 1738.In this year 1745 the Rev. Mr. Balfour (my Great Grandfather x 8) is arraigned by the vestry for drunkness, ! swearing, and other vices.I also found records he spent time in the stocks....Show more
Norine Lomonte: I have a couple. My son was in Scouts when he was younger (now out as an Eagle scout). He met a guy in Scouts, and they became friends. One day, the friend was over at our place, and I was sitting working on our family tree. His friend is an inquisitive sort of guy, so he wanted to know what I was doing. When I told him, he said, "Oh, my aunt does that; we had lots of people who came from Virginia." Since my line also comes from Virginia, I asked him his last name (he and my son hadn't known each other for long); when he told me, it rang a bell. I started looking in my database, and sure enough, there were people with the same surname. Once I started looking, it didn't take long at all to find that this young fellow and my son (and I as well, of course) are cousins! We lived in Colorado at the time; I and my son were both born in Texas, and my son's friend ! was born in yet another state, and yet by complete chance, we all met. ! Truly, it's a smaller world than you think!!...Show more
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