Ancestral Anecdotes

[asulf]

One of my ancestors was a giant, of colossal strength only capable of lifting a car, with his arms and take off the wheel all-wheel .....

under Napoleon, it was mounted policeman favorite technique of his arrest was that it ...
He grasped in each hand Spoilsport loosen the soil was up to his face and smashed them .... the one against the other, let them fall to the ground, and with a tone heavy with menacing promises saying this If ever the one of you tries to escape .. I kill me using the other as a weapon of .....
the way he has never lost a single rogue

[Electronic God-Man]

A Walloon ancestor of mine in Nieuw Amsterdam:

"...it has been said of Adrienne Cuvellier that when one of her sons-in-law returned from the massacre of the Pavonia Indians in February, 1643, with thirty prisoners and also heads of several of the defunct enemy, she, 'forgetful of those finer feelings that do honor to her sex, amused herself in kicking about the heads of the dead men which had been brought in as bloody trophies of the midnight slaughter.'" For the most part, New Amsterdammers had opposed this conflict with the Indians. Many who witnessed her behavior saw it as disgusting....and also directly blamed her family for the war. ["Cuvellier-Cuvilje" Herbert F. Seversmith, 21 May 1947]

Keepin' it real.

[Liffrea]

Originally Posted by Vojvoda
Most men in my family were just gamblers, alcoholics, womanizers and murderers, nothing magnificent.

Like most men then.

Some people have an unfortunate urge to see the past with rose tinted spectacles.

[Cato]

When he was a boy, my grandfather (mom's side) got his nose broken for calling a black kid a nigger.

[Bard]

Nothing incredible about my ancestry but my granddad (father's one) was very rich, he owned like half of the town where I actually live but he was too uhm... soft hearted? So lending money to friends and other people who needed it he ended up broken because people didn't return him the money.
edit: and I forgot to mention that my mother's uncle was into building business but he failed (he was broken I think) so he suicided by drowning into the canal in front of my mom's house, and a cousin of him died when he was 18 because he was working on some electric stuff and someone turned on the electricity.
Pretty sad and macabre anecdotes I suppos

[Graham]

My great granny Jessie Henderson had an affair with an ex Italian POW, ended up fucking off to Argentina with him, just after ww2

those untrustworthy eye-ties grrrrrrr