Anyone have any interesting Ancestors?

A relative of mine was the town drunk in the book Cannery Row. I was sitting in a history class that, upon that revelation, another classmate said his grandfather was Stenbeck's psychiatrist.

Small world.

 

It's hard to know where to begin, because I'm of a very mixed heritage. So far, I only know for sure that I am of English, German, Spanish, Native American, Irish and Japanese descent. The only notable immediate relative that I'm aware of is that my late grandfather from my father's side was a Japanese-American writer in California. Which isn't anything all that special. :shrug: I do have two coat of arms from my mother's side. http://www.4crests.com/head-coat-of-arms.html http://www.houseofnames.com/bolles-coat-of-arms

 

My ancestors are African,but that applies to everyone.

 

Adam and Eve.

And Robert E. Lee on my mom's side... although through marriage. So yeah, not an ancestor.

 

You serious about adam and eve?

 

You serious about seriously questioning that?

Also, for me, Lincoln.

 

Yes I do.

 

I'm half Prussian 1/4 Irish and 1/4 welsh. I don't think I'm related to anyone significant lol.

 

My Grandfather on my mother’s side was head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service in the early 80s after spending 20 plus years as a foreign ambassador to various countries. In 1983 his career came to an end because of the "Sheraton Hotel Incident"
Below is from good old Wikipedia whole article here:”
On 30 November 1983, ASIS garnered unwanted negative attention when a training operation held at the Sheraton Hotel, now the Mercure (Spring Street), in Melbourne went disastrously wrong. The exercise was to be a mock surveillance and hostage rescue of foreign intelligence officers. It involved junior officers who had undergone three weeks prior training and who were given considerable leeway in planning and executing the operation.

The mock hostage rescue was staged on the 10th floor of the hotel without the permission of the hotel's owner or staff. When ASIS officers were refused entry into a hotel room, they broke down the door with sledgehammers. The hotel manager, Nick Rice, was notified of a disturbance on the 10th floor by a hotel guest. When he went to investigate, he was forced back into the lift by an ASIS officer who rode the lift down to the ground floor and forcibly ejected Rice into the lobby. Believing a robbery was in progress, Rice called the police. When the lift started returning to the ground floor, ASIS officers emerged wearing masks and openly brandishing 9mm Browning pistols and Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns, two of them with silencers. They forced their way through the lobby to the kitchen, where two getaway cars were waiting outside the kitchen door. Police stopped one of the cars and arrested the occupants, who refused to produce any form of identification."

I had no idea about any of this until much later in life (I was 1 at the time) and found out about this from Google when I was in my late twenties. I’m hoping one day to find out a bit more about it but most of the people involved are no longer around to ask.

 

From my iranian mother's side, there's a couple of upper class people: Generals, UN ambassador, King's special council and even a couple of prince and princesses.
But, well, all this was destroyed in 1979 so who really cares nowadays ? ^^

 

My Great Great Grandfather was an inventor. He didn't invent anything amazing, just some improvements to certain things. Something to do with ships' hulls and the Plimsoll Line, I think. Still, pretty cool. We have his old patents still in the family.

Cool, so 1960-1962, then. What was the band?

 

That is a freaking cool story!

On my American side, I am distantly related to Howard Hughes of "The Aviator" fame and have one Sioux ancestor apparently. On the Belgian side, nothing of note that I'm aware of bar my great-uncle making the national news for shooting a burglar in the 1970s (which is not that common an occurrence in those climes)