Tis not absurd, our family tree shows through my Mum we’re related to Edward the Third!
A DNA ancestry kit could show further proof too, and others ancestors would show through!

Not so much ancestry related but my twin girls love hearing about when their pepe (my dad) embarrassed me when I was around their age and he did the shaker fry dance in the middle of a very busy McDonald’s! ????

My children love to hear how their Pop was in in the Maitland floods. He was in a surf boat riding down the main road picking up people needing to be saved.

Now the kids are getting a bit older they love hearing stories about how wild their Nana was and the mischief she got up to because it’s so hard for them to imagine their sweet Nana having a life before being their nana haha

How me and their Dad met each other and fell in love, as much as it grosses them out they always ask to hear it!

How Mum and Dad met.

My beloved grandfather, who was my nan’s second husband, was in the Navy during the war and had the tattoos to prove it.

i have 2 half sisters from my dads first marriage that we didnt know about until after he died. i would love to find them if they are still alive.

I grew up in Alabama so my children have been fascinated by stories of my young life. Chasing fireflies in my grandmothers back garden (yes they are real!) and having a grandfather who was a taxidermist with ‘stuffed’ deer head all over his house! They do love the sharing of family recipes though…..

How my parents moved here with 6 kids and $20 in their account, they knew no one and not much about here. Then I was born.

We have a lot of extended family in America. My eldest daughter LOVES the story about how her father and I went there to meet them. In particular she is in awe of the fact that she’s been to Disneyland…she was in my tummy at the time.

My kids love to hear about the antics their great father would get up to in his life on earth. He was the life of any party and such a gentleman. In his last year he was going downhill from dementia and he escaped form the hospital, and went on a mission to take himself home in his pj’s, he hopped on a bus with no money and the driver obviously felt for him, because he let him on the bus and actually drove him home.

They love hearing about how naughty their dad was when he was growing up, and the mischief he got into with his brothers – like the time their papa built a brick bbq and their dad and his brothers bashed it down while it was still wet!

My kids love to hear about our Scottish ancestors their battles for freedom the tartans they wore and the dances they enjoyed

My great grandfather helped build the biggest bridge in Tasmania in the convict years and the kids just love the story over and over

My parents attended a party, my Dad accidently laughed too hard and soiled himself. Went to the bathroom, wrapped his undies in toilet paper and put them in “Mum’s bag”. When he was in the car he asked “Where’s your bag?” She replied with “I didn’t bring one”…

Our convict ancestors who arrived on our shores.
So many of their escapades my children adore.
There was no murder just petty crime.
They’ve become heroes over time.
They cleared the land in spite of the snakes.
And sailed with the ANZACS legends to make.

I don’t have kids, but one story many love hearing – I am from the UK and moved to Australia 5 years ago. I fell in love with here and never left. We started doing family tree research last year and discovered something none of us ever knew – my great-great-grandmother was Australian, the family having settled here in the 1850s! It gives me an extra special connection to my adopted country,

I grew up being told that my Dad left Mum because he was disappointed I was a girl. I finally found him and learnt I’d been lied to my entire life. I eventually met him on my 50th Birthday and spent a lot of time catching up.

I have so much mixed heritage just from my parents, that I’d love to formally know ‘where do we come from’.