Is any of your relatives a famous/known/notorious person?

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lustindarkness

#75
October 20, 2015, 04:13:26 PM
What happened to the car?
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MadImmortalMan

#76
October 20, 2015, 04:15:59 PM
I really wish I knew.

I'm sure it's rust or bolts now.
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lustindarkness

#77
October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.
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Malthus

#78
October 20, 2015, 04:19:19 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.

Comming to you on the next edition of "Antiques Roadshow".  ;)
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MadImmortalMan

#79
October 20, 2015, 04:22:26 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.

Oh my god, my grandma would have had a stroke or something. It's probably buried very deep in some coal mine, waiting for the sun to expand.
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MadImmortalMan

#80
October 20, 2015, 04:27:10 PM
My grandpa took me to Devil Anse Hatfield's grave. Not as a tourist thing. As a honoring our ancestors thing.
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lustindarkness

#81
October 20, 2015, 04:29:38 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 20, 2015, 04:22:26 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.

Oh my god, my grandma would have had a stroke or something. It's probably buried very deep in some coal mine, waiting for the sun to expand.

:(

I understand your grandma been ashamed, but history is cool, simple as that. And any physical connection to history would be awesome to have.

BTW, you did not give us much about the other well notorious family member. I hope we mean the one that rode horses and not the one that rides motorcycles?
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Eddie Teach

#82
October 20, 2015, 04:34:49 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:29:38 PM
BTW, you did not give us much about the other well notorious family member. I hope we mean the one that rode horses and not the one that rode Sandra Bullock.

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Hansmeister

#83
October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia.  She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht.  The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.

Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.

Razgovory

#84
October 20, 2015, 08:21:04 PM
Goddamn it I knew it!  I thought your accent was Sudentan German.
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Valmy

#85
October 20, 2015, 08:54:56 PM
Quote from: Hansmeister on October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia.  She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht.  The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.

Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.

I am reminded of a moment in Middle School where we reached the Normandy invasion and the teacher asked if any of us had grandparents who participated in the battle. Two kids raised their hands and she asked one of them what unit his grandfather was in. The kid answered 'the 21st Panzer Division'

That was awkward :lol:
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DGuller

#86
October 20, 2015, 09:04:09 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 20, 2015, 08:54:56 PM
Quote from: Hansmeister on October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia.  She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht.  The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.

Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.

I am reminded of a moment in Middle School where we reached the Normandy invasion and the teacher asked if any of us had grandparents who participated in the battle. Two kids raised their hands and she asked one of them what unit his grandfather was in. The kid answered 'the 21st Panzer Division'

That was awkward :lol:
:lol:

MadImmortalMan

#87
October 21, 2015, 03:00:08 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 20, 2015, 04:34:49 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:29:38 PM
BTW, you did not give us much about the other well notorious family member. I hope we mean the one that rode horses and not the one that rode Sandra Bullock.

:sleep:

Yeah. Frank James is my 3xgreat grandpa. Grandma's dad was the highest-ranking klansman in WV, and her great grandfather was part of the James gang. Wonderful people my gramps married into.
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The Brain

#88
October 21, 2015, 12:17:29 PM
Quote from: Hansmeister on October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia.  She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht.  The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.

Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.

Who wouldn't? :wub:
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Scipio

#89
October 22, 2015, 08:19:46 AM
I am thankfully not related to the Canadian douchecanoe Michael Ignatieff or his family. I am also not related to famed Australian painter Alexander Ignatiev. My ex-wife is Conway Twitty's sixth cousin.
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