Ancestral Counts

(Author's note: Sometimes genealogy is simply out of control!)

As always, unapologetically, unedited. 

Some people have all the luck when it comes to their family trees. I mean, I have a few notables, a couple of great witches and a Mayflower pilgrim or two, and I might even have a couple of interesting crazy people in the old newspapers now and again. But for the most part, (sorry ancestors) it's all kind of a snore. 

My friend Paige's family tree is, however, pretty cool. I mean she's got the usual suspects, i.e. a Jamestown ancestor and a Gateway ancestor, but she's got so much more than that going on in her family tree. I mean, the girl has a bona fide pirate like ghost as her "grandpa" who haunts an island off the coast of Maine. And, she's got all that court battle stuff from the 1850s about insanity, race, and unrequited love - not to mention the whole stolen body grave robbed buried fortune thing. And her husband Kev? Well, his ancestors had to outrun volcanos. 

How crazy in a good way is that? 

 

Then there's my erstwhile Cousin Dan. You know the dude that hogged all the better parts of our community gene pool? His tree is so Gilded Age stellar, and with so many inventors and statesmen, that it reads like a chapter of Society's Blue Book or Who's Who. Cool stuff. (At least the part that is only distantly related to me that is.) 

And while I know I shouldn't do it, I sorta feel like I need to give Cousin Dan some good old fashioned crap. (Well, his ancestors tend to be on the perfect side) You see, I saw something in his biological Bradford family tree and while I have looked at it for a while now today it really piqued my curiosity. I decided to look and see if it was true - or at least just what it was. I figured it might just be something decent to give Cousin Dan a good ribbing over. 

Believe me, there is nothing wrong with his connection to the "nineteen." The "nineteen" may have some issues, but I think by and large they're probably pretty good folks. Nah, I just wanted to bring attention to it so that Cousin Dan could see that there's a great big dose of silly ordinary reality TV in his mix. (Truth be told, it's a lot closer than he'd probably ever guessed.)

Now I haven't verified one lick of this at all. I'm probably not going to do so either. It is just for fun and take it for what it's worth. I realize that "entertainment" and "genealogy" are terms that really should never be paired, but as they say, what the heck.

This is pretty much the end of this post. I hope you get a chuckle out of it and hope that Cousin Dan will take it in the humorous way it was intended. 

Wait - is that Dan in the back row? Lol. 😆

He's still got the coolest family tree. 

Nineteen and all. 

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