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family history

just learnt that my great great opa worked at a castle taking care of horses, job title pferdknecht is hard as fuck.

@blunt-grab

Feb 22, 2025

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learning more about family lore

i love having insane family lore like a family member that died on the titanic (she was 3rd class and moving to the us at 21) and a great grandpa who was in a plane that crashed in the wilderness my grandpa has a whole room full of archives about our family which I feel like I definitely didn't appreciate as a kid but now think is very cool

@danielalala

Nov 9, 2024

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this is my favorite ask ever! i love family history

here are 3 of my most exciting pieces of lore: 1) my dad was in the south tower on 9/11 and he made it out, but was still in the building when the plane hit. the plane went through his office window, but he was already evacuating and on around the 40th floor when the plane hit 2) my paternal grandfather (jewish) was born in austria but his family moved to milan in ‘33/34 when hitler came into power. in ‘44 when the nazis occupied northern italy, his family escaped into the mountains northeast of milan near bergamo (he was about 13 or 14 years old at this point). his family helped smuggle guns to the partisans since they could speak german with an austrian accent and bypass nazi checkpoints. my grandfather had to shoot a fascist at one checkpoint going wrong, and so at 14 he joined the partisans full-on and lived with them until the war ended. i have a bunch of photos from his time with the partisans (attached some). apparently the group he was specifically with was led by this kinda crazy guy who threatened the security of the whole partisan operations, so he was actually killed by other communist partisans. a few years ago i found a man who researches this exact group in bergamo, and now i have an 80 yr old italian pen-pal who published some photos of my grandfather in his book. 3) my maternal grandfather was orphaned really young in cuba and was really poor. he met my grandmother when he saw her riding her bike down the street and instantly fell in love with her (yes, just like cinema paradiso). she was really rich and her family hated him, so he would wait outside her window just to see her. eventually they get married and have my eldest uncle (because love always perseveres). this part of the story is fuzzy, but i believe he got into some gambling issues and so my grandmothers family shipped him to the US (probably with hopes of getting rid of him for good). but he began to build a life for his family there. then the revolution happened and he continued to go back and forth, but then castro put in the policy that children born in cuba had to stay, so they moved to nyc permanently. but my grandfather loved castro, as most cubans did. so my family is not part of the typical exile cuban-american demographic, which i always found fascinating.

@segronich

Feb 19, 2024

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im a mongolian princess

Yep, my great-grandfather was one of the most famous scientists/ constructors in Mongolia, famously dubbed ‘king of the ice’ for his contributions to provide improved food storage possibilities to the country, travelling every corner of it. He grew up in a poor nomadic village before going to the capital and starting to study there somehow, a very impressive feat given that Mongolia in those days was so extremely poor and terrorized by Russia that that was usually a privilege reserved to the wealthy. He earned a great fortune that all of his children managed to squander within a few years, but his anniversary is still being celebrated every year publicly to this day. There are even biographies written about him, in the more recent ones a family photo where he holds me as a tiny baby in his arms.