[Very OT] Woohoo!

[Andrew D. Gable]

Hey, we're also from Ireland (county Cork though) and according to our family crest, there's a chance that there's some nobility in our line. However, given what I know about my family history there's a good cahnce that my ancestors were transported as convicts during the potato famine meaning all the talk of nobility doesn't count for much.

Oh, the Lynches are in Cork now. It's just that originally we're from Galway. I'll have to check more into it, it's a bit odd that at least two of the Seven Tribes aren't in Connaught anymore, and both ended up in the same region. I'm guessing some sort of clan war (Celts had them all the time ).

 

[The Sigil]

Another one...

Another good site is:

http://www.familysearch.org/

--The Sigil

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Oh, and another that makes me laugh, especially given my strong interest in Jack The Ripper - a girl I was good friends with in my senior year of college just might have been related to him, albeit by marriage. Her last name was Kelly, and she was from the Rochester NY area. Thing is, in 1891 a woman named Margaret Tumblety married a man named Kelly (possibly a relative) in Rochester. Margaret Tumblety's older brother was Dr Francis Tumblety, who was Scotland Yard's #1 suspect during the murders (in fact, he was pursued to NYC by one of their detectives, and also monitored by the NYPD).

"Mom, who was my great grandfather and what did he do?" Hehe. There's an unwanted relative - thank goodness he can't show up at family barbeques.

 

[LostSoul]

My grandmother says that we're related to Little John of Robin Hood fame. Although I think that we're just related to thieves and murderers. Lowly peasant scum.

 

[NemesisPress]

And have you taken to painting yourself blue and running around naked? (If you truly are of noble blood you could carry it off.)

 

[sineater]

This sucked!

My wifes maiden name traced back to an officer of the Nazi SS that ran one of the concentration camps. We were just so happy to hear that, NOT!

 

[Tsyr]

Hmmmm. Dang... I know I'm mostly english with 1/8th scottish from my fathers side, but I doubt I'm royalty

 

[NiTessine]

Hmm... I am not aware of any ancestors of note in my lineage. Maybe I should ask my grandmother, who compiled such info, a few years back.
An interesting bit of trivia, though... Margaret Weis, the Dragonlance author, is allegedly related to Attila the Hun.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

An interesting bit of trivia, though... Margaret Weis, the Dragonlance author, is allegedly related to Attila the Hun.

Was it Attila or Tamerlane who was a dwarf?

I can just see him on Howard Stern now: Attila the Angry Dwarf.

 

[KnowTheToe]

I have been called a jacka, well think of a synonym of donkey, all of my life and just yesterday I found out my mom used to perform in those sex shows just across the USA/Mexico borders. So who knows, maybe I am part donkey after all.