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[Sirus]

I'm basically a mutt; PTW for now.

Yeah, me too. Last I heard (for a project I had to do in high school) I have Irish, Swedish, French, German, and Native American ancestors. All of the above may be utter nonsense, depending on how accurate my grandma's information was.

[Phantom]

Well, as a Filipino, I can trace my roots over to the 1500s to a few people that lived around the central Philippines and helped kill Magellan, no one really interesting. The Spanish part of my family line traces back to the Conquistadors that came with Miguel Lopez de Legazpi over in the same century.

Then it was mostly boring, then my great grandparents participated in the Spanish-American War and the Filpino-American War, mostly by providing for the troops. Few more years of nothing, then on my father's side, some of my relatives participated in WW2, particularly the Raid on Cabanatuan. Same relative that participated in that was in the Korean War, specifically as part of the 10th PEFTOK Battalion at the Battle of Imjin River. His group was one of the first that tried to save a bunch of Englishmen on some place called Gloster Hill, didn't work out too well.

That's pretty much it. Just a lot of war.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Descended from Benjamin Franklin's sister. Also, VERY much a maybe; William Clark, as in Lewis and Clark.

[Furtuka]

Well I'm 3/8ths chinese and the rest is vietnamese. Becomes a bit hard to learn family history when your parents and grandparents were refugees and your name is one of the most common names in your culture. So I don't really know much very far back.
       
     My grandfather use to be a colonel in the south vietnamese army. But then immediatly at the end of the war the US goverment helped my dads side of the family come to the US since the communists would have punished them for his position if they had stayed.
 
      And then 3 years later my mom's side of the family left vietnam after my grandfather on her side had obtained enough money to get the amount of gold to pay for safe passage. The boat ride was 9 days long without food. Farther back I don't really know/remember much other than that on my mom's side is from a chinese ethnic group that moved around enough for my aunt to refer to them as "china's gypsies". I really should ask my grandparents more about the family history sometime soon..

[misko27]

My mother's family a line of baron's and other various nobles. More interesting, personally, is the family founder, Shovat Popovic, who was Leader of a band of pirates that terrorized Venice and the Ottomans, known as the Uskoks. What happened to him later is unknown, although he certainly lived to have children.

[Fniff]

There's a good quote about that tendency for nobles to have bandits in their hertiage.

"Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something to keep quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port." - Terry Prachett.

[ChairmanPoo]

... one of my great-great-great...grandparents embarked to the Americas in the mid-19th century and returned 20 years later filthy rich, claiming he earned it by setting a clothing shop in Argentina (which sounds pretty spurious, tbh). The rumor in the family has always been that he was either a smuggler, a slaver, a pirate, or all of the above, but kept a low profile afterwards.

[WealthyRadish]

My father's side is entirely descended from German peasants that migrated to Russia when Catherine the Great opened settling there, with my great grandfather being the first to move to the United States. I may still have family in Russia, but some evidence suggests they were all killed in WWII.

My mother's family traces to some English noble family, as well as some French and Spanish. One of the later sons settled here in the mid 1700s, and was a loyalist during the revolutionary war. Damn rebels.

[Ultimuh]

According to my grandmother (father's side) whom some years back did some family research (at that time she was interested in researching about her ancestors),
I may be a distant decendant of Anders Celsius.
Kind of funny that we both share the first name.

[Akura]

My mother claims her side of the family is Italian, and that my dad's side is mix of god-knows-what.

Then again, my mom claims a lot of things of dubious accuracy. I don't really care, unless I have some royalty in my line that I can use as an excuse to stage on uprising against some country. Uprisings tend to be a bit easier to pull off if have a valid excuse for them.

[Ringmaster]

A loooong line of gamekeepers and miners, mostly Welsh. Biggest claim to fame is that one of my great-great-great...grandfathers was groundskeeper to H. Ryder Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines. Thought he had an affair with Ryder's wife for a while, turns out he didn't.

[ibot66]

My family has a book written about it, called the French Pilot. I am pretty much a direct descendent of a huegonaut who smuggle Protestants out of France and into  England. Eventually he moved to England, then America. Somewhere along the line he got kidnapped by pirates, and was bailed out by the governor of New York.
We also have, like, genealogies which one could probably find on the Internet.

[Fniff]

Oh, yes. Forgot one detail.

One of my grandaunts on my father's side was the inspiration for the famous poem/song Ragland Road.

[mainiac]

The most interesting part of my family history is in 19th century Pennsylvania.  That's where my great-great-great-great grandfather Whitesell lived with his father and two brothers.  They were as far, as I know, the originators of the Whitesell name, it being a bastardization of a german name.  I believe that most Whitesells in the world are descended from this family.

The means of that decent were rather contentious however.  When the eldest son got married his father adored the bride a bit more then a father in law should...

The father and the bride flee to california and elope there.  The brothers stay in Pennsylvania and start new families, cursing their father's memory.  This was the origins of the two branches of the Whitesell name, the East Coast Whitesells and the Wifestealingsunofbitches.

[Tellemurius]

1600 the family was noble blood and were advisers to the Polish Monarchy. For my french blood we were nobility in Canada, the family crest was a dog and a cat fighting back lions. Fast forward to 1940's, my four great great uncles join the military for WW2. one for navy, two for army, one for marine, all saw action as either riding in Patton's tanks or manned AA in the Battle of Midway or drudging through France or running wild in Okinawa.