When people research their family trees they always crow on about the good stuff. Nobody celebrates being descended from absolute wrong’uns.

IMAGINE IF WE WERE RELATED 👀

I've never done one but I do have a story. My dad had known for some time that his "dad" was not his real dad. He decided in his 70's to do some investigating and established that his dad was actually a Canadian serviceman who was in England during the war and had a romance with my dad's mother. She became pregnant and of course due to stigma she raised my dad with the man who I always called my grandfather. The real dad returned to Canada. Using family tree techniques my dad managed to track down the descendents of this Canadian serviceman and, longer story short, my dad now has a second family who have accepted him with open arms. He and my mum have been over there a couple of times and are going again in May.

I only found out about all of this after he'd worked out the full story, so I learned that my grandfather was not my real grandfather. I loved him nevertheless and nothing has changed in how I think of him.

Sorry for boring you but I feel like you needed it 😌

Wow!! Great story! Will you try to find out more about him?

I did my Dads side of the family. I found a number of stories about his father, ( my grandad). He had died when my Dad was 5, so we didn't really know much about him at all.
But...i found a number of stories about him in local newspaper archieves. Drunk and disorderly on Christmas Eve, pouching, stealing tomatoes and apples from the greenhouse of a well to do local family. Not shocking stuff....but this gave us an image of him as a bit of a bad boy.

But more shockingly, he left his wife for my grandma. They ran away together when she was just 15, he was aboutc15 years older! And... wait for it....his wife was grandmas older sister!!
He was arrested and sentenced to 3 weeks hard labour for abandonment!
Their first 7 children were born while he was still married to the sister. She died a few years later and they were free to be married.
Scandal eh??

My father researched his side of the family tree. His grandfather and all his uncles were officers in the British army.

The uncle who he was named after was a first world war veteran and war hero. Who, after the war was a convicted bigamist.

Family history is my hobby, and I find the "black sheep" of my family to be among the most interesting, so I share their stories often. Sometimes the truth is ugly.

I am descended from William the Conquerer, but, then, so are about ten million other people. LOL

I couldn't find many good ones😁

All my family tree had was dead branches