Things you learn from your family...

[Don Esteban]

That's what I call real scientific proof

Proven after repeated testing if I may say so

[Subedei]

I once talked to a guy, who was really able to trace back his ancestors down to the 8th century. Really old noble family. He was [please fill in fitting number of grants] grandson of Charlemage. No kidding. He summed it up as: " A lot of freaks & geniuses in my family linage!!!". He had it all written down in the family chronicals....
interesting thing was, that he did not want to say his family name....ominous

Only thing I know half-proofed is that one of the ancestors was a merc in the 30 Years War....Landsknechting around in Bavaria & Bohemia.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

According to both my family history and to records I have found. My 6x great uncle on my mothers side was Thomas Francis Meagher. If anyone here knows semi-modern irish history, he was one of the founders of the Young Ireland movement in 1849. After he was convicted by the british for blowing up a bridge (oops) he was sentenced to life imprisonment in tazmania. he escaped by marrying the jailkeepers daughter and they quickly fled to America. 12 years later, they were both living in New york at the outbreak of the American Civil war. Meagher then convinced the govenor of new york to allow him to raise the 69th Irish Brigade. a brigade, as the name implies, made up entirely of Irish immigrants. The brigade then served with distinction throughout the beginning of the war. especially at Antietam and fredricksburg. Unfortunately Meagher had to retire from his command after he suffered a severe case of shell shock and some think PTSD. The brigade was disbanded in 1863 after the brigade suffered more than 60% casualties. As for meagher he traveled west and in 1864 he got drunk on a riverboat on the mississipi river, and proceded to walk off the boat and drown.*slaps head*


EDIT: This wasnt supposed to sound egotistical or prideful. if it did I apologize.

[macsen rufus]

he did not want to say his family name

Martel?

[Ludens]

I once talked to a guy, who was really able to trace back his ancestors down to the 8th century. Really old noble family. He was [please fill in fitting number of grants] grandson of Charlemage. No kidding. He summed it up as: " A lot of freaks & geniuses in my family linage!!!". He had it all written down in the family chronicals....

I was once told that this would be true for a quarter of the Western European population. That is probably exaggerated, but if you are related to a noble family, however distant, chances are good that you can trace your descent from one or more famous kings. Most aristocrats were related, after all.

[Haccapelite]

I can't tell much about my family history, and i really doubt that we have any royal blood in our veins, since the royal families and other noble families here in Finland were mainly either Swedish or Russian. But there is one thing worth mentioning about my family history: The last civilian that was executed in Finland was my relative from my fathers side, if i remember correctly he insulted his master some way when he was drunk (he was a farm hand) and then killed the master in a fist-fight. (we Finns are known for our calmness and good self-control, especially when drunk ) This happened, i think, in the late 1800's.
Well my grandfather fought in the Winterwar, but quite many Finns can say that about their grandparents.

(BTW, does the word 'farm hand' even say anything to you, i had to check it from the dictionary )And because it's summer holiday im slowly forgetting all the english i've learnt, so my grammar might be a bit bad. (oops, sorry about the off-topic, i'll just stop now and go sleeping)

[Martok]

As far as I'm aware, I have mostly common blood in my veins. About the closest I can claim to having a "noble" ancestry is that I'm supposedly tangentially related to an Adams (my family name) who was Lord Mayor of London some time back in the mid-17th century. Since even this remains unsubstantiated, however, I still just always say that I'm descended from poor white trash across the board.

[Martok]

Moving to the Entrance Hall, btw.