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My great grandfather saved a french pow's live

My great great great great great great great grandpa came to the US from Scotland in about the 1740s (expelled I think) and fucked some english dudes wife and had a baby in the states. She then went back to england and had another baby or two with the cucked man

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my great great grandfather once took a carriage that the then crown prince Wilhelm was in :D

My ancestor terrified south and north west europe while he served on a ship and before he retired after gaining much wealth and just before shit hit the fan.

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Great grandmother was a house slave.

A few of my direct ancestors (great great great... grandpa) were kings during medieval times in Wales. mostly in Silures area and Gwynedd area

My mom's grandfather shot a Greek soldier when they came to Kütahya. He managed to make it out of the occupied city, but died 4 years after the incident. Dad's grandfather was chased away by the French in the Southern front in Mersin.

Pretty sure almost everyone in Wales are direct descendants of Owain Gwynedd. He's like their version of Charlemagne or Genghis Khan.

It also explains why im so SWARTHY

Me grandad was a dispatch rider for the war office in WW2.

Grandpa got shot in the ifni war

I am Native American

my granma saw a squirrel once

larp

My relatives escaped Germany after WW1 to the USA, when Poland was ceded Prussian lands.

One of my great grandfathers was a soldier. This one time he decided to walk onto some British ship and the ship sailed with him from Malta. Apparently, when discovered he was arrested and sent back here.

This is the oldest ancestor I've got a picture of. Born in 1783 and died in 1866. Say something nice about him.

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Great-grands were hauling hooch during pohibition.

Based

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My great grandfather was making bank while everyone was a peasant in the island
My other great grandfather came from Fr*nce while he was a peasant
My other great grandpas were BLACK bullss
And no my eyes don't shoot red rays

>My great-grandfather was a German swordsmith from the Rhineland.
-t. Schmidt

Mom's side beat the piss out of communists and murdered them in their sleep.
Dad's side was King of England a few hundred years ago.

My great grandfather was one of the very first actors in our film industry. We donated a shitton of reels of ancient film to a few museums after he died, but not out of goodwill. It's because it poses a high risk of nitrate fire, so we didn't want our property to burn down

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>be grandpa
>french colonist in algeria
>from a pretty poor family of spanish immigrants that came in the late XIXth century
>hardcore franquist
>WWII kicks off
>joins free french forces
>but still participate to vichy-organized balls
>takes part in Italian campaign
>very brave soldier, gets multiple decorations
>the war ends
>he is declared collaboriationist because he is franquist and took part in the vichy balls
>throws his decorations in the trashcan and says he doesn't want to hear about the war anymore
there are some other stories about him related to the spanish civil war or the algerian war, he was a very brave man who suffered a lot for his family

My grandgrandfather served in siberian regiment during ww1 had st george cross, he was colonist, participated in civil war and had to hide in rural south west siberia, and died not long before ww2 started. He had extremely interisting and rich life.

Would be had great-grams not given everything to the church.
Charlemagne

My great-grandfather was a carpenter, he was respected in his vilage.

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A distant ancestor was one of the first American soldiers killed in WW1. Got his head blown off after being on the western front for three days.

my great-grandfather fought for the US in WWI, and my grandfather was part of Milorg during the German occupation
I'm very proud

My great great whatever grandfather supposedly fought and died in the American revolution

noob

Our house is the biggest in the village. During WW2 the german officers chose his house to rest in for the night. They were rather friendly and had guards posted to protect my grandfather's family from the common soldiery.
The german officer, who barely spoke any french, had dinner with my grandfather and grandmother. After opening his best wine botlle, he gave a toast : "A l'extinction de la race teutone".

based and redpilled

my grandgrand father was a thief that used to steal oil barrels from italin war ships in ww2. His sabotage might have been the reason they lost to greece.

Great Uncle got shot in the foot in Bastogne during the siege.

I can trace my family back to the early 1500s

Funfact: argentina is the only country in the world that bombed its own capital.
My great-grandfather was in the plaza de mayo bombing in 1955. He was defending president Peron alongside his brothers.
They had shovels and mattocks as weapons but when the bombing started they hid underneath a streetcar.
He saw how airplane bullets split a man in half.
Luckily, they all made it back home.

My grandfather hid jews in the war on his farm and later fought in the Dutch East Indies during the independence war.

Granpa's dad was a spy and blew up a french base when his cover was blown.

My grandfather run away from WW2 and came to Brazil with my grandmother, I'm glad for that because they came from Nagasaki

SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT MY ANCESTOR!

My great-grandfather fought and didn't die on tge eastern front

My last name can be found in mafia documentaries.

My great-grandfather was a music professor and my family is historically wealthy. That's about as interesting as it gets.

more indigenous than you, buffalo bill

I can trace my ancestry all the way back to king David

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My paternal grandfather was forcefully dragged into the SS Handschar Division

Brazillian-nippon girl, is that you?

Sieg Heil, Kamerad

I guess so
I mean, he was a sworn communist his whole life and allegedly celebrated it when the partisans liberated us but being a Nazi is also nice

one of my great granfathers bought a terrain and brougth a french geologist to there in order to find gold and he succeed ,becoming one of the wealthiest men in my region in that age

How was his life in times of Yugoslavia?
Also, do you consider yourself as a part of serbs (i really don't understand that cultural moment)?

Pretty great desu if the boomer stories can be trusted
I'm ethnically Bosniak if that's what you wanted to know, or did you ask how we identified back then in regards to the 1974 constitution?

looks like Guizot but i wouldnt call that a compliment

>how we identified back then in regards to the 1974 constitution
Yeah. Cause there's mixed opinions on that question.

I know that there two different terms
>bosnian
Which means person from Bosnia.
>bosniak
Which means muslim from Bosnia.

And some says that all bosnians are serbs in some way or another. Some says they are not serbs. And some - bosnians are serbs but not bosniaks.

So how's that working?

looks like a filthy wh*te boi

My grandfather was forced to join the military during WW2 and had to fight at the east front. He got shot a few centimeters above his heart with the bullet penetrating his shoulder blade on the other side. He was incredibly lucky and survived (otherwise I wouldn't be able to write this) and was sent home. He died in 2002 when I was 14.

same except he didn't die.

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absolutely based and redpilled, he is a hero in my eyes

was your great granddaddy the plantation owner?

My direct ancestor is William Marshall. He signed the Magna Carta

I had a few direct ancestors that fought in the revolutionary war. Also had some dude that was expelled to America from Scotland during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, that side of family eventually set up a small town in New Jersey around 1800s that is still standing today and bears my surname. I dont live near there but would be cool to visit. Also have some ancestors from a town in Switzerland around 1600s that I can find no record of on the internet

My great grandfather wasn't conscripted into the Wehrmacht because he worked in an arms factory and was considered important for the war effort. So when the red army rolled in he was in his house when suddenly 2 russian soldiers broke down the door pointed their guns at him and yelled at him in Russian. He thought he was going to be executed but when he heard the words vodka and pivo he understood they just wanted his alcohol. So he showed them his alcohol closet, they took all of it and left.

After the war ended he got drunk with some russian soldiers because he made some money on the side selling the austrian version of moonshine to them. Being drunk out of his mind he just fell asleep where he was, in a building occupied by the red army. The next day some officer woke him up and he was questioned for several hours because someone thought he was a spy apparently.

What city was that in?

Near Amstetten.

Nah, it's a weird name. Short enough that it doesn't stand out as being foreign though.

My great grandmother was Jewish, her family came here from Pontederea, Italy in the mid-30s fearing persecution. She then converted to Catholicism and married a Chilean.

Well, we were given the option to consider as Muslims, before that as Serbs, Croats or Undeclared
And I generally like to explain it to outsiders by comparing Bosniak to an ethnic term and only Bosnian as a national one, the problem there is that it's an either/or situation in that you can't identify as both Bosnian and Bosniak since ethnicity and nationality are equalized, Bosnian Serbs consider themselves Bosnian in that they think of Bosnia as a province though it mustn't necessarily have invader motifs since in a broader sense everyone living in Bosnia is Bosnian, it's a national affiliation

My family has direct proven lineage to a wealthy landowning clan in Scotland from the 1200s

are you swarthy?

Kill you fucking fag

My family was one of the first families to habitate this country in the 18 century (colony back then). They had a special permit of the Spanish Crown.

Thanks to that, my family had the opportunity to make really good bussines and buy cheap land back then

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My great-great grandfather invented the gumball machine.

I'm descended of the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony involved with the founding of Boston and founder of Salem. He led the initial punitive strike in the Pequot Wars.....some of the later Salem related people I'm descended from were hanged as witches and another one was the town constable (his elderly mother was one of those hanged).