Things your family did...

[KnightofNi]

mom sounds like a classy Southern lady.  Kudos to her!

she is pretty classy. she could out burp any of my uncles as a kid and would show us up when we started having contests as kids.
but i was 26 years old before i heard her curse.

[Buckethead]

Let's see: My sister has been an editor at Cosmo, Maxim, and Fitness magazines, among others.

Both grandfathers helped out in WWII. Paternal was a flight surgeon in Europe.

Maternal was a malaria control agent at an airstrip in Indochina. He was also the first member of his family born in the US. His older sister was born in The Old Country.

Great grandparents on my dad's side made the Oklahoma land rush. Legitimately. We're not Sooners.

Had a great uncle or cousin or something or other on my dad's side named Jim James, a direct descendant of Jesse James of old west infamy.

The thing about my family's history I'm most proud of, tho, is that about 450 years ago all record of my dad's side disappears in France and we suddenly show up in England. To the best anyone can ascertain we got deported.

[Rev. Millertime]

Nothing.

My family is a bunch of losers.

I'm carrying on the family business!

[Bun-bun]

My youngest sister is a doctor of biochemistry, and ex-professor at Dartmouth College.
My father played AAA baseball for the NY Yankees farm team, then received a doctorate in Industrial Psychology. He then was drafted, and served as a medic in a MASH unit in Korea. Afterward, he went into civil service, and evenyually ended up as head of research psychology for the dept. of defense. He headed the team that produced the entry exam when the army decided to allow women to enlist. He served as president of the American Psychological association for two years in the eighties. He was on the 14th street bridge when it was hit by a commercial jet back in the seventies, and his office in the pentagon was demolished on 9/11. Fortunately, he was attending a meeting in Crystal City that morning. He lost 90% of his staff that day. He has now retired.

His father owned a clothing store in the Bronx.
My mothers father owned a moving business in Philadelphia, sold it, and eventually ended up as CEO of Hahneman hospital in Philly.
My Uncle Sam Podolsky was a member of the flying tigers squadron in WWII.
My mothers sister went to woodstock, travelled to California, joined a commune, and was arrested for growing pot, and selling acid in the seventies. She's now CFO of an insurance company in San Francisco.

[Big Troubled Bear]

My great great great grandfather was a convict on his way to Australia, but jumped ship at Cape Town and now I am stuck in this shithole called South Africa