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Poll: Ancestry.?

Do you have any interesting stories about your ancestry, say great grandparents and older?

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  • nancy
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    5 years ago
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    Well, my great grandmother killed her child. She lived in a village in Armenia, at the time of the genocide there. She was working in a field, with her toddler and newborn baby nearby, when a rider galloped by, shouting that there was a group of enemy Turks on the way. She picked up both children started to run into the hills to hide, but she couldn't go fast enough while carrying both children. Knowing that if she were caught, the Turks would probably kill both children and rape and torture her, she made the terrible decision to kill one of the children mercifully herself. So, she drowned the baby in a stream, hid the body under some branches, and ran to safety in the hills. She kept running---eventually she and the toddler worked their way across Europe. It took a number of years, but she eventually made it to England, where she died. But her son, now a teenager, made it to Boston, where he got a job working in the kitchen of a hotel and met an Irish immigrant girl who was working as a maid there. I am here today because my great grandmother chose to spare my grandfather and sacrifice the life of her other child. My grandfather would never speak about it, so I've never known what her name was, or whether the child who died was a boy or a girl.

  • I am descended from Welsh royalty and am related to Winston Churchill as well as being descended from several notable rabbis. Besides being Jewish I am also supposedly of Romany ancestry.

  • 5 years ago

    On my fathers side, my family were British nobility, who during the 19th century, during the peak of British Empire moved to the caribbean, where they owned a sugarcane plantation. They sold the business in the late 20th century and moved back to England shortly before the first world war.

    My mothers were originally from Sicily, some moved to New york and some to England and the ones in New York had some involvement in the mafia (thankfully no longer).

  • 5 years ago

    Well my grandfather was a typewriter on a ww2 battleship and someone related to me knew peyton and eli manning personally when they were children. Also my great great grandfather was a very famous person in the late 1800s

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  • james
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I don't know anything about my ancestry

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I'm related to William Brewster, who has 4 islands and a town in Massachusetts named after him. And there's an inn in Nantucket named after my great-grandfather. We went there with my grandparents, and got a tour, and one person running it mentioned to someone else, "That's Mr. (our last name).

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    On my mom's side I'm related to Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of president Abe Lincoln. I don't remember exactly how but she's one of my ancestors.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    We're of Italian Heritage

    Siamo Italiani! and I'm proud of that.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I'm sorry. You're not innocent enough. And I thought you were a real female. And that I don't like or support. So I cannot answer this question. Sorry.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    had a family member play Major league baseball back it the 1920s

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