Things your family did...

[Duc Stamp]

My grandma always swore we were related to Elvis.  This was well before she lost her mind but we still never really believed her.

My dads second cousin or someone like that was the CEO of TGI Friday's and is credited with taking them nationwide.

[ducatiz]

i am a relative of Judah P. Benjamin, vice president of the Confederacy.  My great grandfather was his nephew.

my pop was in ww2 and in the korean war... AAC and then USAF intelligence.  silver star recipient.  all-around nice guy, RIP.

mom's family was a founding family for the jewish community in mississippi in the 1800s.  nothing notable beyond funding the community buildings in a small town.  fun to see your name in lights.

[Duck-Stew]

I'm the son of a Detroit assembly line worker and a nurse.  My grandfathers fought in WW I and WW II.

I won the 2005 Ducati Monster Challenge.

Yeah....that's it in a nut-shell.

[c_rex]

As far as I know my family has remained in the behind the scenes action throughout the course of history except for an unverified revolutionary war soldier who uncovered a British spy.  /shrug
My wife, however is a descendant of the well known "pirate" Captain Kidd.

[DesmoLu]

This is a cool thread so I want to "reactivate" it. My family history is kinda f'd up but pretty interesting:

My entire family resides in New Mexico and are all descendents of the Spanish families that colonized New Spain. That means there was some imbreeding. I've seen the family trees and yes, cousins married cousins all in the name of "preserving the Spanish blood" so if I seem retarded, that's probably why 

My mom's side, Archuleta, came to NM in 1598 to colonize New Mexico, establishing the first capital ever in what is now the US (yes, it was **not** in New England as popularly thought) in San Juan de los Caballeros which is where a lot of my family was born and still lives and where little me was baptized. The Archuleta side is interesting because they are responsible for the name of the famous "Ghost Ranch" because they used to steal people's cattle and murder them and eventually one killed the other for the ranch.  "Ghost Ranch" is famous for being the home of artist Georgie O'keefe and for being the film site of many movies (most recently 310 to Yuma). My Archuletas settled in a town near there called Abiqui which is where I grew up but they switched back and forth from there to another town due to frequent raids by the local Native Americans. My grandma used to tell me stories about her village getting raided by Native Americans.... in the 1930's! My great-great-great grandfather, Jesus Maria Archuleta, was actually captured by the Natives and rescued once. There is actually an entire book about the Archuletas and quite a few books about my hometown out there.

My dad's side, Borrego, is less exciting. My first ancestor, Don Diego Vasquez de Borrego, came to NM from Antequera in Andulucia, Spain (I've been there and it's a damn cool town) fleeing his wife and some kind of crime. Coolness on that side is that one of my cousins participated in a rebellion in the 1960's that attempted to restore New Mexico Spanish land grants by succeeding from the United States - linky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina

so ya, some pretty cool stories in my family. Unfortunately I missed out on a lot of them because I don't speak enough Spanish to really communicate with a lot of my older relatives that speak very little English. 

[wbeck257]

My great, great, great, granddad burned down the city I live in.

Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman...








And don't think we won't do it again.

[Grampa]

he's got that... "take the f'n picture already" look go'n on.

"don't make me burn down this studio"

[abby normal]

confederate general jubal early

confederate general robert e. Lee

the kid who was sent by the jamestown colonists to live with the local indians (can't remember his name right now)

a bunch of pennsylvania mountain hicks on my grandfathers side.

[ducatiz]

My great, great, great, granddad burned down the city I live in.

Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman...

And don't think we won't do it again.

we were raised to hate that make the beast with two backser. 

one night i pissed on the statue in NYC.. it's right at the south east corner of central park. 

it gives me some pleasure that he is wearing a toupee of pigeon shit.

can't see it here, plus they photoshopped the color. 



you can see the color better in this pic, plus a little "heap" on his head

[eyeboy]

we were raised to hate that make the beast with two backser. 

seriously? hate is a strong word. and make the beast with two backser... well...

[ducatiz]

seriously? hate is a strong word. and make the beast with two backser... well...

more or less.  certainly not to revere him. 

he wasn't very nice, either, which is why i call him a make the beast with two backser.

and hate is just the past tense of heat.

[eyeboy]

and hate is just the past tense of heat.

[c_rex]

My great, great, great, granddad burned down the city I live in.
....


And don't think we won't do it again.

[KnightofNi]

I am somehow related robert e lee on my mom's side

there is a vauge connection to daniel boone

my fave is the scottish part. Clan Graham.
they were from a group of clans known as reivers. one of the best stories involvesthe theft of some sheep.
in retaliation, as the story goes, the grahams went over to the offenders place and killed everything. all the sheep, horses, dogs, pigs, people, ect...

and they say i have a bad temper. HAHA
family motto is Ne Oublie (never forget)...we do tend to hold grudges too





maybe i'm just genetically predisposed to being an angry hooligan.

we were raised to hate that make the beast with two backser. 

one night i pissed on the statue in NYC.. it's right at the south east corner of central park. 

it gives me some pleasure that he is wearing a toupee of pigeon shit.

i grew up in the south and a lot of the old old timers had nothing good to ay about the blue bellies.
personally, i never quite understood why they held onto that until i got much older.

one day my mom, sister, and i were in an antique shop whent he owner started prattling on about why there are no good southern antiques. he was basically saying we are too stupid to keep things nice. we had enough and as we were leaving my sister turns to him and says "we might have some if you assholes hadn't burnt it all or stolen it!"
my mom smacked her for cursing, but was laughing the entire time.

[ducatiz]

my mom smacked her for cursing, but was laughing the entire time.

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