...about that family of yours...?
 

Do you have any dirt to share with us about your family members? It can be interesting or embarrasing, I don't care.

When she was a little girl my aunt Regina was kidnapped for 4 days by the "Black Hand." This was in Detroit in the 1930's and it was all over the news. She was returned to her family unharmed but the ransom was never paid.
I am Italian and Native American. We were always on the fringes of this kind of shit.

One of my 2nd cousins is Sammy Terry:

My grandparents lived in Paris in the 40's, and they never killed any nazis.(not that I know)

atsonicpark, this may explain alot of the unanswered questions about you.

I have a great-uncle (maybe great-great) that was a midget wrestler.

My dad was dirt poor before coming to the states, my mom is an indian from Oaxaca.

Cool! I have several pieces of Oaxacan sculpture

She knows how to do mole from scratch, yum. And she hasn't forgotten her dialect. Wish I knew how to speak it.

my great great great uncle keeled him a heap o' messkins, 'fore bein' keeled himself by them there messkins.

my grandmother had several fruit-bearing affairs that were so well hidden that my mother had no idea that she had another brother, until after my grandmother died.

my mother's kind of stupid. I find that rather embarassing.

For the longest time no one knew where my great-grandfather was for the 20 years right after he came to US....turns out there's a complete other family that he just left. Those Polish are tricky.

Re: floatslo, I'll see if I can find a picture. I think he's still alive, but in his late 80s by now. I can't remember if I've ever met him...but if memory serves, the picture I've seen he's wearing an olive green suit and derby.

My whole family is crazy or driven crazy by other family members.

Nothing all that embarrassing about my family. A cousin on my mom's side is kind of a trailer trash mother but I'm cool with that. Another cousin in Ohio is an earthmother organic hippie but she's awesome.

Really nothing I'm personally embarrassed by, except perhaps sometimes by my mother's enthusiastic socializing skills but that is a me-as-teenager complaint.

sounds like most everyones family.

My father's side history include numerous lawyers, a judge, and a priest.

They're all pretty sane. Almost boring so.

My mother was friends with one of the ladies who, along with several other Puerto Ricans, went to Congress and started shooting back in 54

Before God and the world, my blood claims for the independence of Puerto Rico. My life I give for the freedom of my country. This is a cry for victory in our struggle for independence . . . The United States of America is betraying the sacred principles of mankind in their continuous subjugation of my country . . . I take all for responsible. -- LOLITA LEBRON

Oh, and both my father and mother were investigated and kept under surveillance for years by the CIA for membership in the Puerto Rican nationalist party, who sought to achieve Puerto Rican independence.


the party was started in 1922.

my father's uncle is a retired 2 star general, commander of special forces from 84-88, and room mate of norman swartzkoff at west point

my great grandfather was killed in a coal mining accident. it took them two years to dig up his body. that's a lot of dirt.

i would never have been born without franco's fascist regime in spain.

no dirt.

But my mom was always pretty sure she wasn't born to at least one of her parents. Her mother and father never said anything though, and now her dad has passed away and her mother has dementia.

My dad's mother was always sure she wasn't born to her mother and father also, that she was abandoned by someone else ( I can't remember if it was a friend of the family or a near relation). My grandmother is so not of anglo decent, its fairly obvious in her features.. and somewhat moreso of a difference than just the maltese that is definately a little further back in the family history.

so my blood lines are kind of fucked, probably.

but aside from that, nothing interesting that Id want to share on here.