Hey finti! Any chances you might be a descendant of Erik the Red ?his origin is very close to where I live, but its hard to say...my ancestor (that we know of) stayed on while Thorvald and his son Erik Torvaldson (Erik The red)and ther kins fled Norway...Erik was followed by his son Leif Erikson (believed to have travelled to America 500 years prior of Columbus)
OH....I read the book!!!! 馃槃 ...Do I know somebody famous?????
My neighbor claims her family is related to Alexander the Great, but I don't know.....And I don't know who I'm related too... 馃檨 ...But I'm sure it's somebody really really cool!
Just remembered....my mother said her family knew Jesse James...and were bad bad people and were outlaws....my great grandmother was a full Cherokee....or was it my grandmother....
Well then my mothers relatives new the fictional Jesse James.... 馃檮 ...
Frank and Jesse James were brothers and outlaws...Maybe some of the stories were fictional, but they were real people...yep.
Lived down the road to where they hung out....lots of guns and law breaking on my mothers side...She heard all the stories and hates guns...My grandfather on her side had many many wives and was always shooting off guns and just hung around with the wrong crowd just as his father did.
Jesse James fictional???? pretty famous chap even if some of the stories about him is pretty exaggerated ...well from the top of my head.
Jesse Woodson James born in 1847 joined the civil war on the Confederate side at the age of 17 and fought with the Quantrill's Raiders (guerilla unit and a no mercy one as well) After the war Jesse along with his brother Frank and their confederate "brothers in arms" The Younger brothers (cousins of the James brothers)robbed trains , banks, stagecoaches and so.on ............Jesse got a kind otf a Robin Hood image and he felt that the way the Victorious Northern Union threated the south after the Civil War was the reason for him turning outlaw.
Jesse was killed , shot in the back while he adjusted a picture on the wall in his home, by Robert Ford ( who was hired in by Jesse for his next job) In 1876.....Jesse had a bounty/reward on $10 000 on his head at the time of his death
Originally posted by finti
his origin is very close to where I live, but its hard to say...my ancestor (that we know of) stayed on while Thorvald and his son Erik Torvaldson (Erik The red)and ther kins fled Norway...Erik was followed by his son Leif Erikson (believed to have travelled to America 500 years prior of Columbus)
So there is a chance that there might be some viking relics or antiques near your town? Maybe hidden treasure? Ohhh...that would be sweet! 馃槃