Post Your Awesome Relatives
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Topic: Post Your Awesome Relatives
Posted By: choopie911
Subject: Post Your Awesome Relatives
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:03pm
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Well this came up in a discussion I was having on Reddit earlier, and I thought it might be cool to see what sort of interesting connections/ history this forum might have in their families. For me I'm going with my great uncle, http://www.spacecanada.org/index.php?page=bryan_erb - Bryan Erb
From the article: "While officially retired, Dr. Erb has continued to pursue his interests in the prospects of alternate energy sources. He was an Engineering Aerodynamicist with A.V. Roe (Avro) Aircraft at Malton doing thermal analysis on the Avro Arrow until 1959 when NASA recruited him for his expertise. He laid the concepts, as one of the original 8-person team, for what became Apollo, the only manned spacecraft to reach the moon. He was responsible for the technical leadership for several key elements of the Apollo spacecraft, including the Command Module heat shield. He managed the Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the early critical missions. Dr. Erb planned and managed important remote sensing experiments, including the first world-scale inventory of wheat using satellite data. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service medal for this accomplishment. He became Chief of the Earth Observations Division of NASA’s Life Sciences Directorate in 1979 and later was the Manager of the Earth Resources Program Management Office. Having maintained both his Canadian citizenship and broad network within NASA, Dr. Erb was pleased to be selected as the Assistant Director of the Canadian Space Agency’s Canadian Space Station Program in 1986. In this role, he represented Canadian interests at the Johnson Space Center and to other partners on the International Space Station Program. By 1991, Dr. Erb had become captivated with the potential of solar power from space and served as the President of the SUNSAT Energy Council for five years. He chaired the International Astronautical Federation’s Space Power Committee from 1998 through 2001. From 2000 through 2002, he instigated and managed the Canadian Space Agency’s Canadian Space Power Initiative. Dr. Erb took his B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, an M.S. in Aerodynamics from Cranfield Institute of Technology, England as an Athlone Fellow, an M.S. in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, an M.S. in Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA as a Sloan Fellow, and was awarded an Honorary D.Sc. from the University of Alberta. Dr. Erb is a prolific author and speaker with over 100 technical publications and major presentations including invited papers for meetings in Canada, Brazil, France, Italy, Mali, Ghana, Australia, and the United States. He was also a Lecturer at the International Space University Summer Sessions in Toronto, Huntsville, Houston, and Barcelona." |
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:15pm
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My grandfather (Dad's dad) Michael Angelich. I was also named after him. He was a bombardier in WWII assigned to the aircraft Full House. From Wiki... Assigned to the 393rd Bomb Squadron, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/509th_Operations_Group - 509th Composite Group , it was used as a weather reconnaissance plane and flew to the city of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki,_Nagasaki - Nagasaki , designated a "tertiary target", before the final bombing to determine if conditions were favorable for an attack. The aircraft also flew as a spare aircraft during the mission to bomb Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, but landed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima - Iwo Jima when the B-29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar - Bockscar was able to complete the mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House_%28aircraft%29 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House_%28aircraft%29 -------------  |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:19pm
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:21pm
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Great grandfather received a medal of honor at the battle of the buldge.
Great uncle got shot down twice on easter in Vietnam. Came back state side to start AirEvac (first civilian emt heli company). ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 6:09pm
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/Waits for FE Don't know about distant relatives, but my close family has been pretty average. Mecahnics, truckers, engineers, etc. My great grandfather was the sheriff of Posey county and my grandfather was an airplane mechanic on Tinian when the bombs were dropped. Other than that nothing really noteworty that I am aware of, which is fine by me. ------------- 
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 6:43pm
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my dad's buddy from Nam (basically my uncle). in the photo of the Saigon police chief shooting the vietcong (pretty well known picture of the war) my uncle is on the back of the truck in the background. can't see it in the photo, but he said he was on the back of a flat bed when he saw that happen, only pieced together a short while ago that he was in the picture. same uncle was in memphis on leave when martin luther king got shot, was taking his mom to a mid morning matinee or something to that effect, heard the shot. offered the governor to jump in a guard unit to help with the riots until his leave was up, got a letter back saying it was appreciated, but he couldn't use him since he was a federal troop. |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 6:51pm
Molla(title) Ahmet Külüşlü The man isn't such a big deal outside of the Yalova area, but here's what I got on him. He is my great grandfather (GGF). One of three brothers and one of the two to create and take on the surname. He was a merchant in the town of Kulus (not to be confused with the one in Azerbaijan), which was located I think in Greece... whatever it was called under the Ottoman Empire. Around the time of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, there were numerous militant groups acting "in the name of" their ethnic groups. My GGF sold supplies to many of these, including an Ottoman one. That group was betrayed by a spy to the Greek government. The group was arrested, and my GGF along with them. They were sentenced to death, the group for being militant (I have no idea whether they carried out attacks but I suspect so) and my GGF for associating with them. They were sent to a prison camp where they were subjected to the classic punishment of breaking larger rocks into smaller ones. During this his time in the Hellenic Hotel, the soldiers guarding the site would occasionally strike the prisoners with the butts of their rifles. Fed up with the beatings and with nothing to loose, the last guy to do this to my GGF took a shovel to the head... then to his neck... then through his neck. Other soldiers quickly noticed and slashed the fellow to near death. You can't execute a guy who is super beat or sickly, it wouldn't look good. They put him into a hospital, unaware of his pimptastic skills. A Bulgarian nurse tended to him, and she was also there against her will. She helped him escape back to his home village some time after the slashing where, as a community and religious leader (Molla), he influenced them to head East. The founding Turkish authorities would send ships to various lands to move people of ethnic groups to the regions they wanted to go to. Some were regrettably forced to such areas. There were deals with the other governments that these ships are Turkish territory, and that other nations had no business on them. My GGF's family and some followers went to one of these ships, which got stopped on its way out to sea. They were looking for him. The captain held his ground, told them they had no right to board, and the ship carried on its merry way. He helped found the modern version of a town Northeast of Yalova, which was situated in some mountains. His descendants were to become Turkish rednecks. He had 6 wives in his lifetime, 3 of them were at once. In short: He was a crafty badass, pimp, and a hero and savior of a sizable group of people.. ------------- 
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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 6:58pm
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A relative by marriage http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4424450.ece - Mike Brown but i thought it was cool. Especially when David Cameron was bringing it up to Nick Clegg at the party leaders debate for the general election. As far as blood relatives it's pretty average and i don't know alot about my family history. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 9:12pm
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Research is still in the works, but its possible that I am related to George Custer. Based on a recent find, his family name was originally "Kuster" which is my mother's maiden name. Aside from that though, my family has been pretty average joe since they got off the boats from their respective countries. Fun little story though about my Grandmother's family- maiden name "Atella" Her brother worked in a bank, and one day had a customer get irate at him and demanded his name. When he told her it was "Atella" she thought he was screwing with her and demanded to see the manager. Only after the manager confirmed that this was in fact his name....did the woman calm down. Also relatives of the same grandmother was a set of sisters, one was a nun, the other was a prostitute who was hit by a train and killed. ------------- ? |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 9:33pm
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I don't really know anyone famous or who did cool things at all. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 9:50pm
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jmac3 wrote:Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 10:17pm
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One of my great grandfathers was a boxer for part of his life, and fought at Madison Square Garden once. He was my dad's dad's dad. I'm considered the "third", and would be the fourth if the man's middle name was John instead of Dominic.
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 10:23pm
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Pretty average, though my dad's dad came from a family of 13 and they used to own a large saw mill until it burned down. Theres also a story that i don't fully know but my mom had an ancestor who married a guy and decided to move away overseas and her sister got a letter from her in one place and then they were never heard from again, so it is believed they were lost at sea... kind of romantic actually but I forgot the details and thats just off the top of my head. |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 10:30pm
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My great great great (great?) uncle was..... Jefferson Davis. Confederacy President. ------------- 
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 11:15pm
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My aunt, aunt uncle, uncle, uncle, cousin, cousin, cousin, cousin are alcoholics.
I win. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 11:19pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_III - "Light Horse" Henry Lee
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 18 April 2010 at 11:45pm
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Pfft, my family's boring. I think I'ma have to be the one to make history for us. Both my grandfathers served in WWII, but the closest either got to combat (as far as I know -- my mother's father was a mechanic in Europe and my dad's was a radio technician on the USS Firedrake) was a couple reconnaissance rides in an Avenger. Although my (great) Uncle Harry also has some good history. He's put up the flagpoles on most of the major buildings in Boston (including most of the federal and state buildings, and the Prudential Center). My great-grandfather on my mother's side moved here from Greece, and none of our family knows much about the family before they moved to the US. My family on my father's side goes back to at least the 1830's in Eastern Pennsylvania as heavily Lutheran Pennsylvania Deutsch (or Dutch, as they call them now, even though none of them were from Holland). ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:00am
Edward "Fireball" Roberts.  "Roberts continued to amass victories on the circuit, despite the changes in NASCAR as it moved away from shorter dirt tracks to super-speedways in the 1950s and 1960s. In his 206 career NASCAR Grand National races, he won 33 times and had 32 poles. He finished in the top five 45 percent of the time. He won both the Daytona 500 and Firecracker 250 events in 1962 driving a black and gold 1962 Pontiac built by car builder legend Smokey Yunick." |
Posted By: Magoo
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 2:06am
| Psh. Jesus is my daddy. |
Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 2:11am
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My grandpas brother is knighted, and was the CEO of Glaxo one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. cant find an article on him, but google his name you find a few stuff. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 6:52am
Have you got any family research on him? My father actually does a living history portrayal of Jefferson Davis. ------------- ? |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 9:29am
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Too much to list... It would take pages and pages, as my family history is very deep, going back to the first settlers of the US, and even more info prior.
Here is my great aunt. WASP pilot during WW2.
http://www.twu.edu/library/wasp/wasppdf/Sabota.pdf - http://www.twu.edu/library/wasp/wasppdf/Sabota.pdf
My gggrandpa civil war
http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=484 - http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=484
  Here is the trunk he carried during the civil war.
 First librarian of congress and helped start the republican party John James Beckley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Beckley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Beckley
Beckley Wva was named after him.
Many towns, and cities across America were named or are historic properties from my descendants.
Here is an example.
http://www.noblepreservation.com/consultingservices/historyresearch/histpresschaf.html - http://www.noblepreservation.com/consultingservices/historyresearch/histpresschaf.html
Garretts run in PA is another, as we sold off the family home there about 10 years ago.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASgarrett.htm - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASgarrett.htm
John Carson home in NC. Ever heard of Dueling? Well, the Carson/Vance duel was his son. And Davy Crockett was a close personal friend who attended the duel.
http://www.cojoweb.com/duels-wnchistory.html#THE%20VANCE-CARSON%20DUEL - http://www.cojoweb.com/duels-wnchistory.html#THE%20VANCE-CARSON%20DUEL
http://www.historiccarsonhouse.com/ - http://www.historiccarsonhouse.com/
Here are a couple of books that were John Carson's which he used during the revolutionary war, only 9 sets of these still exist (printed in USA). One set is the unbound set in the library of Congress, which were presented to George Washington. Simes was the author, "Military Guide for young officers" VI &VII
 You can see his signature (at the top) burned into the cover. John Carson.
 On my Dad's side of the family we have a minor planet named after my ggrandpa's brother. Peter Mehltretter an astronomer
(1968) Mehltretter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Mehltretter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Mehltretter
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 9:47am
Didn't see that coming  ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 10:27am
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Speaking of didn't see something coming...
My grandma died yesterday on her way to church... So I'll be headed down to Huntington WVa for the funeral soon.
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/homepage/x874712918/Woman-dies-after-crash-on-Washington-Blvd - http://www.herald-dispatch.com/homepage/x874712918/Woman-dies-after-crash-on-Washington-Blvd
Knowing her the way I do... She would want me to laugh at the way she went out of this world into the next.
I can imagine her flipping her car, and opening her eyes in heaven, standing up and dusting herself off and saying.
"Whoa! that was fun!"
RIP Eileen Mehltretter
Probably the coolest grandma a kid could ever have. ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 10:27am
Anyone else see the problem with this?  ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 10:45am
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Clara Barton
Buckminster Fuller Grandfather designed the acoustic air dropped mines used to starve Japan. He also designed the pressure mine but it was not well accepted by the US navy during WW2. Albert G. Perkins - inventor of a boring machine ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 10:58am
Yeah, FE has descendants. -------------
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 11:39am
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As far as wars go, as far as all the research my dad can find (He got
really big into genealogy for a while), both sides of my family were
not in the U.S. during the Civil War. Both sides were from Ireland, and
ironically enough, both sides were from northern Ireland. My dad's side
were Irish - Name Riley - and the mom's side were English - Name Rhodes
- but living in Ireland. The first of them didn't make it over until about five years after the Civil War had ended. I do have some French ancestry on my mom's side as well. There is the maiden name "Renea" from my great grandmother. It partially explains why it is I have a bunch of inherited French WW1 stuff, including a pair of French Army feild binoculars. In WWII, my great uncle Homer Bryant was an officer in charge of body collection and identification. His job was, after a battle, to make sure that all of the American casualties were collected, properly stored, and identified the best he could. That was done usually by searching pockets for IDs and such, but if the body was too badly mangled he would have to get people from the deceased's company to help the ID process. He then made a list, and got his worker people to write out the letters home. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:23pm
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I really couldn't think of anything to post here. I was depressed for awhile. Then I understood the reason and felt better. When questions like this are asked . . . . . . my relatives mention me.  ------------- 
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:25pm
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"My uncle Mack led a fleet of US ships in the War of 1812!" ? ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:26pm
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^^^ Okay I LOLed. (Really, I'm still chuckling as I type this.) (It makes it hard to type correctly.) -------------
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:27pm
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I have liitle or no information On my Father's Father. He came from a village in Czechaslovakia called "Moli", I can't find it, maybe the spelling.
My Mother's side are German, Most were killed off during WW2.
My Father was a Cop at the 40th precent, NYPD South Bronx, 1965-1985 and a Marine as well.
My Uncle George Schamberger was interviewed in the Book "The Battle of Hue" for his experience during the battle. Another Marine. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:31pm
| FE- whats the modern MOH for? the civil war one on the website doesn't look like the ones you've got there. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:36pm
Post Humous! LOL! FE is the classic "one upper guy"! ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 12:53pm
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I'm not aware of anyone in my family ever doing anything worth mentioning. If their decendents are any indication of what they were like, I am assuming they were a bunch of lazy unmotivated drunks that did as little as possible to get by. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 2:04pm
lol. is that also why there's two? even the older one doesn't match the one on the website |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 2:08pm
Try the Cub Scouts of America! ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 2:20pm
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Im Canadian so I don't have any sweet war hero realtives, only eskimos and sleal hunters... somewhere along the line there is a guy named Jim carey and Mike Myers....
I don't know much about my family history so My contribution is of My cousin singer/songwriter Justin Hines  I'll tell yah one thing. He never scuffs up his white shoes ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 4:04pm
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 4:22pm
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam - My http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve - ancestors were so important, not a single one of you would be here today were it not for them. |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 19 April 2010 at 7:25pm
The one on the left is the Civil War era medal, the one on the right is the more modern medal. Winning the Medal of Honor in the Civil War is approximately like winning the Bronze Star today (his would have been with the valor device). Statistically, 80% of MoH winners since WWII (when they changed the meaning and requirements of the medal) have received it posthumously. 100% of MoH winners since Vietnam have recieved it posthumously. Just a point about how the award has changed over time. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |