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    I was just on the phone with my grandmother, getting stories about her mother. My great-grandmother, who the family calls Pie, just sounds like the coolest person ever and I wish I could have met her. From what I hear, we would've gotten along famously.

    She was born in 1902 in a small town in Mississippi, and grew up to be the first female in town to wear socks instead of stockings - they told her to put on her stockings like a lady, she refused because it was too hot, and she spent a couple hours in jail for indecency (but by the end of the summer, all the women in town were wearing socks). At 15 she decided to join the Army and go fight in World War I, so she lied about her age and went into the recruiter's office, only to find that her mother had beaten her there, so she got dragged home. She fancied herself a flapper, not a "young lady," and nobody ever told her what to do. Much later when she had grandchildren, she found two of them smoking weed and decided to share the joint with them to see whether it was really all that bad. When she died, in her 80's, she was still living on her own and taking care of herself just fine, she just never woke up from a nap one day. I was a baby then so unfortunately I don't remember her at all, but I never get tired of the stories.

    Who's your coolest ancestor or other influential person you never met but wish you could've?

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    Everyone in my family. My great aunt who was killed by the Nazis in Kiev for being a jew. My great grandfather, a land-owning Cossack, who stood up to the Bolsheviks trying ot take it away. My other great-grandfather, who was the most highly decorated general of his time in the Soviet Army. Yup, all of these different people, historical enemies, who came together to bring my life into this world. They are my ancestral guardians. I may not have met them but we speak all the time.

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    My father's mother and her six sisters were all in concentration camps and survived and were very wise cool people, from what I hear, but they all died before I was born.



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    That is extremely cool, Katrine! What a family tree you must have!

    Lena, they must have been tough for them all to survive. That must be why you're so strong.

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    I was hoping someone would start a thread like this.

    The man who gave us our family name, a Portugese Jew who ended up in Mexico via Spain.

    My Tarahumara great-grandfather, who was converted to "European ways" at age six (the missionaries said they would save his tribe if they moved onto the mission plantation & converted to Catholicism.) He fought in the Mexican Revolution as a Villista (for Pancho Villa) and went on to be a midwife and respected member of his community in Durango, Mexico.

    My great-grand-uncles, who were great musicians and clever hustlers. They died in the Revolution.

    Both my grandmothers, who suffered lives too hard to produce the lot of us...
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    ive never really asked about my older relatives, but my grandmother sounded like a crazy chick back in her day.

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    i think i've met everyone i think is pretty cool, except a few SW ladies.

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    My sister had a freind pass away recently, Mr.Butch. He was a very very tall homeless black man. The 1st time she met Mr. Butch she was 14 or 15, and her and her friends all lied to their parents and said they were staying at each others houses to go see this concert. Well they missed the last train home, it was like 4am and freezing, and up comes this ginormously tall homeless man who asks what all these kids are doing in this part of town. They tell him, and he says they can all come to this old abandon house that he squats at, and nobody will mess with them. She smoked her 1st joint with him, and knew him since.
    He was an alcoholic, but not a sad alcoholic, he loved his life, he loved living on the streets. He's carry signs like "will have sex for sandwhichs" and "need money for beer and weed." I guess he knew many a people to. She said shes seen him getting out of Aerosmiths limo, and when he died, she heard from friends all over the country, people flew from FL, CA, all over the place to come home.
    He was one of those people that would always say something to cheer you up, and they'd always share a smoke, or a joint, or buy him some beer or some food. He died because he crashed his little scooter he saved up to buy . I guess they had memorials and a parade and everything for him. I was in tears hearing her tell me about him. And I'm so sad that I never got to meet him...


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    My great maternal grandparents were from Lithuania. When they came over, they had absolutely nothing. My great grandfather was an expert tailor and began making money by making/tailoring clothes for the wealthy. They made a crap load of money and then my great grandmother started collecting antiques. She had this beautiful antique shop (I found an actual picture of her) and was very successful for being a woman and owning her own business. This had to have happened in the late 1800's early 1900's.

    From what I've heard...my great grandmother was very stubborn and wouldn't let people tell her that she could or could not do something. My mom used to joke that I was her reincarnated. If that's true, she was one stubborn lady...but cool as hell.

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    I lvoe this thread!

    My great, great Aunt Flo (yes aunt flo! Florine.) She lived in New Mexico, on a ranch. She would wear chaps and silk blouses, so she could be a lady who got the job done she'd say. She would stand on her porch, smoking acig out a long french cig holder and a shot gun in the other hand, and when poeple would try to cross the border on her property line she'd shoot the ground around them (so she says, but most people think she was really aiming at them!).

    She never married, rumor had it that she swayed the other way, but she was extremely tall for a woman, and was very, uhm...not sure what the word is (brain fart here) but she wasn't shy, coy or ladylike when it came to talking to the guys.

    There was also a rumor that she dabbled in witchcraft or indian magic. But the one thing I heard most about her is how she would help someone in need no matter what.

    My mom knew her when she was a very little girl, my uncle remembers her even more and says that she was a wild woman that kept it under wraps. I so wish I could have met her.




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    My crazy German great-grandfather. The stories my dad tells me...this guy was a genuine whacko. He'd turn off his car's engine while going down hills in the black forest, to 'save gas'. He'd drive my dad (when he was a kid) to the middle of nowhere to see an insane asylum, and then park there for three hours to laugh at the patients. Everyone was so afraid of him. He would also drive his grandchildren to the middle of nowhere, and then leave them to find their own way back. And then he brought home a monkey one day for their cafe. My dad says the monkey would steal sips of beer, get drunk, attack my dad from the trees...just so his Opa could laugh at him.

    When this guy was in the war as a dispatcher, they sent him to Russia. He decided that Russia was scary, and decided to misunderstand his instructions, so he went to England instead. Then he got hit by something, and spent the rest of the war in a sweet English war hospital. So, crazy like a fox SOMETIMES I guess...

    and back in Germany, his wife decided to protect herself and her daughters from the French soldiers by rounding up a few of the local prostitutes, and offering the French men these ladies alongside some of her cafe's delicious pastries. This way they wouldn't harrass her, I guess. All those relatives...when I hear these stories, I wish I could have met them myself.

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    My father was the most amazing person I have ever known. He was smart, compassionate, strong, funny, sweet and everything other positive thing that could be used to describe a person.

    He spoke several languages, had traveled the world. He probably never had an enemy in his whole life.

    He taught me the importance of self education and personal independance.

    He exposed me to fine foods, wine and the arts all while showing me the value of hard work and finding reward in a job well done.

    I have never met a single other person who could come even close enough to compare to not only the father part of my Dad but the great man he was in life and even now in death.
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    Awe, Rinna, that made me all mushy! And wow, totally goes against the stripper "we were all abused and looking for a good male figure/getting back at men" stereotype. Not that I ever bought into that obviously, but still. that's sweet.




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    I love this thread. I don't know much about my background. My family rarely speaks to one another. And with me being a stripper, I am pretty much shunned at all family events. I wish, more than you all know, that I could know my ancestors, what they did, where they lived...anything...

    But I would have loved to have had the chance to know my great grandma better. From what I remember she was so full of life. I've seen pictures of her from when she was my age, we look so alike, it's scary. She lost her husband early and managed to keep the farm up and running without any help from anyone.

    I'd also like to meet my family that are still overseas. I'm nothing like my family here, so I've always wondered if I am more like them. Plus I'd be able to see where I'm from.

    But the most amazing person I *HAVE* met has got to be my grandfather. He is such a strong person, not only physically. But mentally as well. He's the most compassionate person I know. He'll help anyone out if they need it, without blinking an eye. I know I can call or show up on the doorstep at any hour of the night, and he'd be there wanting to know how he can make everything better.

    He came from poverty, I've seen the house that he was raised in. It was so small, in the middle of nowhere. He fought hard to get to where he is now. I'm so very proud of him.
    He's always telling jokes and stories. Always smiling and laughing, I've only seen him cry once. I can't put it into words how amazing he is.

    He's my rock, I wish you all could meet him. I'm positive you would love him just as much as I do.
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    I have an uncle in the U.s. who is from Ireland his name is Seamus Heaney and he is a Nobel Prize winning poet and teacher. I've often been told that my writing style is similar to his which is an honor.

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    to be honest Im not close with family at all the coolest person i ever met was a group of women honestly it was the women I danced with when i first started dancing they changed my life. They did't all like me and they didn't have to they each taught me something about life I feel like I was ment to meet them. They tought me everything from to apply makeup the rightway to how to interact with people and stick up for myself. These girls were straight forward and bruetly honest. My mom left my sister and I when i was just entering adulthood and I did not have a lot of places to turn to learn how to bridge the gap from shelterd teen to women and I swear these women were vital to me. They will never know what they ment to me maybe they don't need to but I carry a piece of them with me always. They were honestly cool as shit and very bad ass I could go on for days taking about those people and that club but i won't.

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    This is great... so many kickass folks throughout the ages! Keep 'em coming!

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    I wish I knew something about my ancestors. My grandparents on mother's side were dead before I was born. They were pretty mean & didn't share much about their family history even w/ their children. I do know that I don't even know my grandmother's real maiden name because she took on a fake name before she married her husband (I'm not sure why). My grandfather on my dad's side was very nice too me, even though he seemed pretty gruff, but he died when I was a toddler so it's not like I had in depth conversations w/ him. Plus I considered him my grandfather, but he wasn't father's dad anyway, he was her 2nd (?) husband. I've joked & called my grandma the black widow because she's gone through a few husbands. My grandma doesn't really like to talk about the past but she did mention something about letting people take her picture. So I think she actually did a little modeling when she was really young. The person I do know who's done a ton of stuff (not all good) is my father. He's pretty interesting. I was the only kid in my HS psyche class who's parent (when I interviewed him for a project) actually admitted that they weren't completely happy w/ their life. P.S. I think the other's were lying.

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