If you go back far enough, my half-cousin Ann Boleyn got her head chopped off and my other cousin, Jane Seymour, married Henry VIII.

There's a written record of one of my ancestors coming to America on the Mayflower.

Here in Australia back in 1938,my grandfather,a detective,along with a colleague, investigated and later arrested a serial killer;a sensational case here back in its day.A couple of years later my father,on wartime service in the U.K.,in 1940-41,experienced some of the Luftwaffe air-raids and their aftermaths,including the infamous attack on the city of Coventry.

Grandpa was part of WW2. He never spoke of what he did during the war but when dementia set in, he started speaking all these languages we never knew he knew. So we looked up his war records.. The records said he was a Baker in the army. It showed when he boarded transportation which he did a lot. And when he was arrested. (Also a lot) But everything else was completely blacked out.. We think he might of been part of military intelligence.

One of my great-aunts told me of a story about our Haitian roots, apparently there was a set of twins born to a black slave woman and a white Frenchman. During the revolution, the Creoles were given the option to side with black Haitians fighting the French—or they could leave with the French.

One difference between the Americans and the French as colonizers was that the French were more likely to acknowledge their black children, send them to be educated,
bequeath them money and property. So, the story goes, one of the twins stayed and fought with Toussaint L’Ouverture and Dessalines for Haiti’s independence; the other one fled with their French father to the U.S.

I don’t know if there’s any way to track or prove it other than the DNA, but subsequent sets of identical twins have occasionally been born to members of our family.

William Clark of the Lewis and Clark family is my first cousin 6 generations back. 2 of the trappers are direct descendents of my family. Pocahontas, (the real one, not Elizabeth Warren) is my 10th great grandmother and one of my great uncles is one of Shakespeare's Original King's men

My Great Great Grandma bequeathed a diary that has since been handed down. In it's pages dated 1872 is a visit to a Chicago theater to see a stage production featuring Buffalo Bill Cody.

Bout as close to history my blood has.....been.

Most noteworthy I'm aware of is my gpaw helped clean the streets of victims of ww2 after the war ended.

Might think of something more interresting later.

My great grandfather was in the Royal Navy and served at the Battle of Jutland in WW1.

No, but my great grandmother had twelve children. So I find myself related to most people in a small town.

Wow! Thank you for best comment.

My grandfather fought in the Polish resistance and airforce in WW2.

Great grandfather was shot, father was sent to prison camp as a political prisoner. The German takeover of Czechoslovakia in October 1938.