What is the craziest story you've heard/found in your family history?

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Oct 15, 2024
3:55:44pm

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What is the craziest story you've heard/found in your family history?

Cougs4Lfe

Oct 15, 3:55pm

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JimmyZ

Oct 15, 3:58pm

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JimmyZ

Oct 15, 4:00pm

Sounds like the original BYU Super Date to Vegas!

DiamondMo

Oct 15, 4:01pm

Huh. Well that was pointless

TNT

Oct 15, 4:34pm

When my grandparents fed and gave fuel to Bonnie and Clyde.

bluecheese

Oct 15, 3:59pm

My great great grandpa had really bad cataracts, and was basically blind for

Trinity

Oct 15, 4:01pm

Great-grandma died from childbirth and the baby also died

AZ Coug

Oct 15, 4:01pm

More sad than anything. My grandma killed my grandpa in a domestic violence

gangbusters

Oct 15, 4:04pm

Don’t know if this is crazy but kind of cool. My GG grandmother

Rivers Cuomo

Oct 15, 4:04pm

My 7th great grandparents

canuckchuck

Oct 15, 4:05pm

My ggpa did time on Utah pen for polygamy

Y-Zag

Oct 15, 4:06pm

There is a picture on family search of one of my ancestors in jail. I think it

crack

Oct 15, 4:15pm

One ancestor came from Spain in 1520 to the new world, conquered the Aztec empire, but not before having a

hamaca

Oct 15, 4:08pm

My great grandpa died in Leavenworth prison

unsq312

Oct 15, 4:11pm

Another great grandpa of mine played on the first BYU football team

unsq312

Oct 15, 4:16pm

This is on my Mom's side of the family.

Little Mac

Oct 15, 4:12pm

Very cool. I inherited some shares of Dream Mine stock from my grandma

AZ Coug

Oct 15, 4:16pm

My great grandfather and his friend were arguing one afternoon over whose cow

crack

Oct 15, 4:13pm

And that, my friends, is how the KWhitt rumors began.

John Doe

Oct 15, 4:15pm

RE: What is the craziest story you've heard/found in your family history?

cougarmeister

Oct 15, 4:19pm

GG-Grandfather started a horse stealing gang in California.

dallasbyu

Oct 15, 4:19pm

A relative in the 1800's was a mass murderer....

BYU Grounds

Oct 15, 4:20pm

Was his name Wyatt?

JimmyZ

Oct 15, 7:45pm

Grandpa was 1st in the continental U.S. to learn Pearl Harbor had been bombed.

cosmohio

Oct 15, 4:22pm

Somehow, this is how I envision that message....

bluecheese

Oct 15, 4:31pm

He was born and raised in Lehi and an avid Cougar Fan so you might be right.

cosmohio

Oct 15, 4:36pm

Wow, that is crazy.

specsauce

Oct 15, 5:10pm

My grandpa going MIA for a couple years after getting his leg blown off in the Battle of the Bulge would

mokelembembe

Oct 15, 4:27pm

My grandma was in her basement one day and found her brother's counterfeiting

Emmett Fitz-Hume

Oct 15, 4:27pm

GGGGGGGrandma was a princess (of a very small geographical enclave in what is now Italy) and engaged to the leader of

mvtoro

Oct 15, 4:30pm

That's inconcievable!

BYU Grounds

Oct 15, 4:35pm

I mean, it sounds unlikely, yes. But that’s how it was told to me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

mvtoro

Oct 15, 4:49pm

I had a cousin who was set up to be the next owner of a large inheritance from

blackandblue

Oct 15, 4:38pm

Found a baby pic of your cousin!

Doofenshmirtz

Oct 15, 4:49pm

RE: I had a cousin who was set up to be the next owner of a large inheritance from

BYU Grounds

Oct 15, 4:52pm

Abigail Featherstonehaugh and the haunted Featherstone Castle

AZ Coug

Oct 15, 4:39pm

British navy firing cannon shot across the bow of my 4th great grandfather's

craigman

Oct 15, 4:57pm

RE: British navy firing cannon shot across the bow of my 4th great grandfather's

BYU Grounds

Oct 15, 5:26pm

A little-known survivor of the Haun's Mill massacre. He survived by pulling

tony

Oct 15, 5:01pm

Legend!

BringYourUltimate

Oct 15, 10:29pm

Wow. Incredible.

IronPotato

10:38am

I’m a little disappointed by the lack of 3 nephite stories on here. That’s all

Pepe

Oct 15, 5:06pm

RE: I’m a little disappointed by the lack of 3 nephite stories on here.

Cougs4Lfe

Oct 15, 10:00pm

Let’s just say that my maternal grandfather (who died 1 year before I was born and I’m 50), we learned, made some poor

specsauce

Oct 15, 5:16pm

A Great Great Grandfather was a missionary in Armenia.

CasualFan

Oct 15, 5:25pm

We have Armenian member neighbors

NYC and Japan

9:34pm

Gma's 1st husband's throat was slit by the new barber in town

Chick Bowdrie

Oct 15, 5:34pm

Love the replies! Wasn't expecting so many responses. Crazy stories!

Cougs4Lfe

Oct 15, 10:02pm

M grandmother wasn't raised by her actual mother. Turns out that my

BE-WHY-YOU

8:43am

My ancestor was a "high king" in Ireland. Died in battle at age 73.

IronPotato

10:43am

My GGPA was a pioneer in the "Peep Show" industry. True story.

DansmithUVU

11:49am

RE: My GGPA was a pioneer in the "Peep Show" industry. True story.

Cougs4Lfe

1:04pm

While living in Germany, my grandpa met with a German priest to inquire about

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