People have been sharing the most amazing stories about their ancestors – 23 favourites
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My ancestor cut off his right hand and threw it on a beach to win a race and end a war. pic.twitter.com/lGmP1yyuX6
— friendly hermit (@SteveO9259) January 24, 2020
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my great grandmother was painted by Emily Carr and her image now lives on in a museum. pic.twitter.com/mz6qt27iOp
— Monk E. (@tdm_now) January 23, 2020
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My grandfather smuggled a camera into a WWII concentration camp to document life as a prisoner. https://t.co/vM3XScbuxQ
— Mark Takahashi (@Mark_Takahashi) January 23, 2020
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They survived in the Deep South.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 24, 2020
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My grandpa & his K9 dog stopped a jewelry thief back in the day on the subway. It was in the newspapers & everything lol. pic.twitter.com/pK1drMyvTu
— P. Lynn 👑 (@BABYP_) January 24, 2020
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Ancestor claimed to have personally fought George Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn
— Mikey Boyd (@AlanMychal) January 22, 2020
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Dad built his own glider at age 16. My grandpa towed him aloft in a model-T. My gradmother was brave enough to soar as a passenger with dad pic.twitter.com/6KFMgo4Nge
— Fisher (@FisherStudio) January 23, 2020
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My grandmother, a 15 yr old daughter of a dalit farm labourer, rebelled against an entire village, faced stone pelting and worse for her education. She demanded that my grandfather hold up their wedding until she was done (which took 10 yrs) & made an entire generation of doctors https://t.co/u85HEHqO7W
— M (@unkittenish) January 25, 2020
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I’m not terribly sure how true this story is, but knowing my family and the things they’ve done through the years, I don’t exactly doubt it.
My great-grandmother was one of the first women in the medical school she attended. It went about as well as you’d expect.
— Christian Moriarty (@MoriartyCR) January 22, 2020
Pretty constant casual harassment, I’m told. General disrespect to make her feel like she didn’t belong there from fellow students and apparently also the faculty.
One fateful day she discovered a piece of a cadaver from their gross anatomy class on her personal desk.
— Christian Moriarty (@MoriartyCR) January 22, 2020
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