My great great grandfather founded a town in Michigan called Frankenmuth and helped found the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and some relative on my other side was a bastard :cool:
Your turn. Have anyone cool in your lineage? Maybe someone that crossed over on the Mayflower, or you're related to a celebrity? Have any wacky stories about your elders? Sharing is caring.
I started writing this and cause I had alot of time on my hands I decided to keep going.. u don't need to read it unless ur that interested as to the background of semio o goers..
I have a family tree that goes back to 700AD when the first Baron Agilulf or something from my family lived.. had 7 children and 1 lived.. lol
There tree goes on and on, one family member at least went to the crusades and when he came back the family wouldn't let him in until he told them that there was a sword he had stashed in the attic. (they didn't recognise him cause the crusades took yrs).. anyway famous ancestors eh?
Well my family is named after the town of Egloffstein which they used to rule from castle Egloffstein which is still in part of the familys possession.. their having an exhibition recently too.My family is one of Germany's oldest recorded families having recieved special privledes from Frederick the great in the 1700's and were promoted to count status from barons.
My family has had a long military history we've had ancestors in the army from generals in Prussia to basic infantry etc..
For American history one of my ancestors was responsible fore early topograpthy of the grand canyon:
The Ives expedition produced one of the most important early maps of the Grand Canyon . Using shading instead of the traditional hachure marks to indicate differing elevations of the terrain, the topographer F.W. von Egloffstein created an engraved map that is a work of art.
some dude .... declared Egloffstein's map to be "one of the most important detailed maps drawn before the Civil War
I just looked some of this shit up on the web.. theres a ton of references to Von Egloffstein family history including I found out that during a 1700's war one of my many ancestors got his stomahce shot through by a grenade haha..
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/gchome.html
Also during the civil war I think one of my ancestors led a German immagrants contingent of I don't know how many men for the yankees.
1456-79 Princess-Abbess Kunigunde von Egloffstein of Oberm?nster in Regensburg (Germany) (we had family in Regensburg, Kunreuth, Egloffstein and a number of otherplaces.)
The Head of the territory had been a Princess of the Realm since 1315.
one of my ancestors opened a university in Germany in the 1400's
There are so many other stories, apparently we have some letters of an ancestor describing Napoleon's conversation with the royalty during germany/prussias occupation. Apparently he was quite the gentleman ;)
Baiscally my family has always been in a position of power which has allowed them more oppotunities to do notable shit cause they had the time and money to do so.
Another one of my ancestors was Julie Von Egloffstein who's artworks are on display in a museum .. she was in love with Goethe and both of them corresponded quite frequently.
As for my grand parents.. My grandmother told hitler off at a cafe once (he was briefly in for coffe with some of his staff, this was just after he had a bit of power) He said to my grandmother cause she was smoking "A German Woman doesn't smoke" And she hit the table and said "But I do"
My grandad was a major on the Waffen SS and u can guess his reaction when my grandmother used to play the BBC out loud lol..
He was part of the guard that stood near hitler at one of his speeches in nuremberg.
He was later sent to the Russian front and captured in Checoslovakia.. he only survived cause he could speak perfect Russian and could prepare an answer before the translator spoke to him in German. Because he was SS and aristocracy u can imagine how much the Russians would have wanted to kill him and one of the people from his village gave him away but he managed to prepare himself for their questions many times. He served 6 yrs in Russian captivity and came back about 40 something kilos .. heh..
So yer thats just some of my family history... Im glad I didn't stay in Germany though cause the family today is pretty up themselves.. I find it hard to live up to all the family history..
I seem to remember someone in my family telling me about a Bernardo O'Higgins (My last name being HIggins, my great grandfather dropped the O when he came to America because it sounded Irish.) It seems that he helped discovered South America. I'm going to be doing more research in the future for a more accuarte account of it.
i'm a distant relative of leif ericson the norse explorer and i'm also related to either louis or clark from the louis and clark expedition :o
My mum said we're descendents of noble Korean blood, and a great great great great great great great great great grandmother was a princess or something.
My great great grandparents or something were in the Prussian army, which is pretty damn cool. :cool:
One great grandfather was a US Naval Destroyer Commander, the other was a Nazi U-Boat commander. Needless to say at a family reunion we found out they had battled each other at sea. Lets just say a fight ensued you aint seen nothing till you see two old dilapated 80 year olds beat the ever living fuck out of each other.
Not really interesting, but almost my entire familly was killed during world war 2 on my dads side, and basically I am the only male heir to my name. So if I die, my familly dies.
One great grandfather was a US Naval Destroyer Commander, the other was a Nazi U-Boat commander. Needless to say at a family reunion we found out they had battled each other at sea. Lets just say a fight ensued you aint seen nothing till you see two old dilapated 80 year olds beat the ever living fuck out of each other.
wow ;0 you should elaborate man sounds like an interesting story as :)
I can't believe that those old timers couldn't fucken step outside of the war and sort of forgive and forget.... Alot of American, british and german vets have done so :0
Mercenaries for British in Revolutionary War looo