Genealogy Abundance, Week 38: Funny Ancestor Stories
Scott_J
This week’s writing prompt should be a lot more fun than last week’s dry topic of state archives. Thanks to the few of you who mustered up journals on that.
Week 38: Funny Ancestor Stories. Tell us a funny ancestor story that stands out in your mind. When did you first hear the story? Do other family members tell different versions? Does this tale play a large part in your family tree?
Write a journal on FamilyTreeCircles about your favorite state archive.
http://www.familytreecircles.com/ejournal.php
When you do, please put “Funny Ancestor Stories” in the journal title somewhere so I can be sure to see it and feature it in this week’s FamilyTreeCircles blog post about it.
“Funny Ancestor Stories” Journals From FamilyTreeCircles Members
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FUNNY ANCESTOR STORY :: FamilyTreeCircles.com Genealogy
Great Uncle Bill was born in Ireland in the late 1800s He arrived in New Zealand about 1920 with a number of his siblings and they established themselves in various parts of NZ Most of them settled near Wellington but great uncle Bill stayed in Christchurch so in all my life I think I only met him half a dozen times The first time I met him he gave me 2/- (20 cents) so he was forever embedded in my mind!! I loved him. He was very quiet. Tall and thin, he would bend right down to talk to me ...via: www.familytreecircles.com |
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Funny family stories :: FamilyTreeCircles.com Genealogy
My grandfather was born in 1878 and lived to be 106. As I was growing up he would sit with me on the porch or in front of the fireplace and tell me stories of the Civil War. I was in Junior High before I realized that Grandpa Eubanks had not actually ‘lived’ those stories, they were ones he had been told by uncles and other members of the family. The best one was about his father and grandfather burying all the family valuables and money under a big rock shaped like a frog out in the pasture. Wh…via: www.familytreecircles.com |
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More Whoppers Families Tell You :: FamilyTreeCircles.com Genealogy
Just reading about Sue Graham’s post regarding the whoppers families tell brought to mind a whopper in our family. I really can’t mention names, because I am sworn to secrecy. But a certain person’s great grandmother was so secretive about her age that she went so far as to cut up her marriage certificate and hide the pieces inside her handbag, never ever leaving the bag out of her sight. No ammount of pleading or trickery would loosen her lips as to her age. Then on the 7 September i…via: www.familytreecircles.com |
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Funny Ancestor Story: James Kinsey Brown :: FamilyTreeCircles.com Genealogy
When my Great, Great Grandfather, James Kinsey Brown, returned from fighting in the Civil War, he married and had four daughters. He named them Annie ATLANTA, CAROLINE Jane, Fannie MISSOURI, and Sally VIRGINIA for wars he fought in.via: www.familytreecircles.com |
52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy created by?Amy Coffin?is a series of weekly blogging prompts courtesy of?GeneaBloggers?for genealogists and others to discuss resources in the genealogy community including websites, applications, libraries, archives, genealogical societies and more.
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joyce45 on 2012-09-16 23:02:40Funny Ancestor Stories: My Grandmother, Nancy Belle Green Ricketts died when she was 105 years old. She often told us about being left an orphan at 10 years old and how she hated her name. We would ask her why and she would say when she was young the kids would sing Nancy Belle fell in a well and she got wet and was mad as hell. We loved to hear her sing that to us. When I started doing my family geneolgy I talked with her and asked for information about her Dad and his family. She told me about her Dad and his many brothers and sisters and about her grandfather, who like whiskey and cigars and what little she knew of her grandmother. She told us that her Dad went to fight in the Civil War in place of her grandfather when he was 16, because he had so many younger brothers and sisters and he thought his Dad should stay home with them. As usual I couldn't find much about her grandfather and grandmother, but one day I was visiting my brother and had taken my Grandmother and my Mom with me when my brother said I have someting to show you. It was my grandmother's grandfathers obituary. I read it and then asked Grandma again how many brothers and sisters did her Dad have and she said 12. I read the obit to her and it said his first wife and him had one son, Grandma's Dad and she died. His second wife and him had 4 children and she died and his third wife and him had 8 children and she died. My Grandma shook her head and said well he always loved women and whiskey, I guess he was just hard on the women. No one had ever told her that her Dad was an only child and she was 98 when she found out that the brothers and sisters were half brothers and sisters.
tiny450 on 2012-09-17 12:39:37Funny ancestor stories: I was just a little girl and asked my mom why Grandma and Grandpa had a tub in their basement.She always said she would tell me when I was older... well she kept telling me that even after I was married.When grandma and grandpa died I had already figured it out but I let mom tell me anyway.You guessed it.That tub put food on the table during the depression.Some of the things my relatives did to survive the tough years, utterly amazing.Apparently the liquor was one of those survival methods.
1bobbylee on 2012-09-27 08:06:13Ha Ha gregchick. Now, that is funny! I would have loved to see all the expressions around the table when your Grand ma got her point across. Love it. LOL
1bobbylee on 2012-09-27 08:06:59Ha Ha gregchick. Now, that is funny! I would have loved to see all the expressions around the table when your Grand ma got her point across. Love it. LOL