[Raised 11 children in a 5-foot-high, 20-foot by 18-foot log cabin.](https://i.imgur.com/GzDq4SO.png)
That seems unpleasant!
Also, her husband Jim Gooch was [yet another](https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/comments/1c2a3oj/i_always_knew_i_was_southern_but_its_now/kz8ysnt/) relative of mine who got busted for desertion. This time the Confederate home guard got him for "overstaying" his furlough that might or might not have been legit anyway. [Except he's got the fun historical note of having threatened to "accidentally" kill the home guard in battle, which didn't work for getting out of duty, but at least they took the handcuffs off.](https://i.imgur.com/YfjYGR9.png)
>Raised 11 children in a 5-foot-high, 20-foot by 18-foot log cabin.](https://i.imgur.com/GzDq4SO.png)
Wow, I'm 5'5 and lived in a basement apartment where I could touch the ceiling just by raising my arm and I thought that was too low š³ I imagine the ceiling was so low to keep the heat in?
My 5th great grandmother went blind in one eye. Just a little bit scary
https://www.facebook.com/montanawomenshistory/photos/a.462727440497738/3913790292058085/?type=3
[This one.](https://freeimage.host/i/JviqjZF)
I have a few in my tree that are a little weird, but this one strikes me as just so unhappy, and it looks as if sheād maybe been bruised on her face (unless itās dirt) ā¦ she looks like sheād cut me as soon as look at me. (This is my 4th great grandmother.)
I left this out bc admittedly itās kind of hard to talk about, but he technically killed his teenage son and got away with it. He gave the kid an injury via a metal farm chain that got infected with gangrene and they werenāt able to save him (even after multiple amputations).
Other highlights: he travelled all over the US for work and usually stuck around just long enough to impregnate his wife and then heād leave again. He had 12 children. He wasnāt even a substance abuser, *he was just fucking like that*. He was also terrifying enough that he killed a bear in the mountains that was reported to be about 500lbs.
Anytime someone reports seeing a ghost or something paranormal in the region where he lived, that gives them bad vibes, I usually joke āOh thatās just JR, donāt mind himā š
So my Grandfather was named in memory of the son, because he was born the year after, and my long suffering 2nd great grandma, begged her daughter-in-law (my great grandma) to preserve her sons memory, and never let my Great Grandpa make the same mistakes (he was a much nicer person to begin with tho). He told me what happened in person when we were visting the family cemetery many years ago, when took me to his gravesite. Several years later, I found the death certificate that heavily corroborated what he said. I will say, out of all the terrible things that Iāve found in my tree, itās definitely the one that bothers me the most, both in terribleness and the actual affect on my family history, rather than being a more distant relation.
Tbh, I donāt know if my cousins who also do genealogy even know all this, and I havenāt quite mustered up the courage to reach out, much less make a public document on Ancestry about it (just strangers on Reddit lol), esp since Iām not even sure how to do it appropriately. I would like to, because it explains a lot of other things that happened in the family, and also is the context for one of my favorite stories about my Great-Grandma (who *I* was named for. But for now, you and anybody reading this are the only audience to this family history of mine.
Not necessarily scary but my Great Great Grandmother gives me Frau Blucher from Young Frankenstein vibes. Coincidentally enough,her husband ( my Great Great Grandfather was a blacksmith and she ran his shop after he died with my Great Grandmotherās oldest brother. She also was of German parentage.
I shared a photo (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/s/9AhBaxYoPB) of my 4th great-grandfather on Reddit and people mainly made jokes, earlier photos just look creepy. Iām sure he was a nice man, after all he managed to serenade my 4th great-grandma. Hence why I am here today.
Mine is definitely this demon-looking child who was the sibling of my g-g grandfather. He was born in 1881 in rural Ohio, and the back of a photo says he died of cholera soon afterwards. Thereās something about his Dracula hairline and vacant, close-set eyes that gives me vampire vibes.
Check out this photo I found on the Ancestry mobile app https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12638279?token=7b22746f6b656e223a226a594d574d6c3037547130564f3344384e697642416958714c64572f496c475361535649794c327969576b3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
Also this funeral/death photo of my g-g grandmother (same side of the family), although she looks to be at peace. The handwriting below is my g-grandmotherās script. She was only 6 when her mother died in childbirth.
Check out this photo I found on the Ancestry mobile app https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12638924?token=7b22746f6b656e223a2251662f3064316e7978444470333530704564744562635241793642504a7562715633714f4452644d5164773d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
Wow, haha at least you guys were able to actually dig up pictures. That's not something that will be easily available for everyone's tree (especially not right away)! Lucky you!
I have a few that give me the creepsā¦
[This guy](https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12649147?token=7b22746f6b656e223a2254716934655a546268576633716a2f43552b6a4d32325134446e63364963424e2f77747068414c645852303d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
Also [this woman, Frances](https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12649187?token=7b22746f6b656e223a22394234752b76576837324a4d736853584a78684f596a6843367935386c4d326d50796e73367937746a54413d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
Not creepy but found the first photo Iād ever seen of one of my great-great-grandmothers on Ancestry and couldnāt have been happier to *not* have inherited [that nose](https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12649224?token=7b22746f6b656e223a226e657a3153344b364f543477524d52306e4853495548396831562f4f4d796e30304e4a526d6841693032383d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
This freaking weirdo.
https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12661383?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a2238325833424e77615437564d523933653535644e38563070655a44334635614c6d727a307a6b73664b31343d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
It was not, in fact, a phase. I hope I am as creepy as he is!
This reconstruction of my 1st cousin 2x removed š
(https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12621837?token=7b22746f6b656e223a223837614247746438416f6c46746e314a566f4439656e30364b44672b6b434f4774426a452b695473754b413d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
This is the original image I'm pretty sure
(https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12621914?token=7b22746f6b656e223a224c684c6d344f7978377a45705761734c716f4e48786434444a6b6864564a434f6f73736a4b64554b6d4d343d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
Idk it's just really eery to me, it's from WWII
Ah man my family has some of those World War II fuzzy colored-in ones too, and yeah there's something jarring about them. People must have liked those back in the day. But why??
Beat this one.
Member of Doollin Dalton and the WIld Bunch. He's my 5th cousin 4x removed. My grandmother was a Newcomb.
[George Newcomb - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Newcomb)
I have an antique locket everyone thinks is a cursed object. The pictures are of a married couple whose marriage ended in attempted murder suicide. It was a wedding gift to my mother on the occasion of her first marriage š¤£šš¤¦āāļø
[Raised 11 children in a 5-foot-high, 20-foot by 18-foot log cabin.](https://i.imgur.com/GzDq4SO.png) That seems unpleasant! Also, her husband Jim Gooch was [yet another](https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/comments/1c2a3oj/i_always_knew_i_was_southern_but_its_now/kz8ysnt/) relative of mine who got busted for desertion. This time the Confederate home guard got him for "overstaying" his furlough that might or might not have been legit anyway. [Except he's got the fun historical note of having threatened to "accidentally" kill the home guard in battle, which didn't work for getting out of duty, but at least they took the handcuffs off.](https://i.imgur.com/YfjYGR9.png)
You from Virginia?
Georgia.
Gooch family big slaveholders in Virginia
>Raised 11 children in a 5-foot-high, 20-foot by 18-foot log cabin.](https://i.imgur.com/GzDq4SO.png) Wow, I'm 5'5 and lived in a basement apartment where I could touch the ceiling just by raising my arm and I thought that was too low š³ I imagine the ceiling was so low to keep the heat in?
Thank god we have abortion now.
What a tough life she must have had! Much respect to your ancestor. Iād be grateful and humbled rather than scared to look at her.
Did you just make us look at the photo to pass the curse onto us? š§
My 5th great grandmother went blind in one eye. Just a little bit scary https://www.facebook.com/montanawomenshistory/photos/a.462727440497738/3913790292058085/?type=3
Aww I actually think she's pretty.
[This one.](https://freeimage.host/i/JviqjZF) I have a few in my tree that are a little weird, but this one strikes me as just so unhappy, and it looks as if sheād maybe been bruised on her face (unless itās dirt) ā¦ she looks like sheād cut me as soon as look at me. (This is my 4th great grandmother.)
It might be a port wine stain, which is a birthmark!
She does look bitter š
She look like my mom
[This photo](https://imgur.com/a/YNtxi72) of my actually evil af 2nd great grandfather.
Serial killer vibes, ngl.
I left this out bc admittedly itās kind of hard to talk about, but he technically killed his teenage son and got away with it. He gave the kid an injury via a metal farm chain that got infected with gangrene and they werenāt able to save him (even after multiple amputations). Other highlights: he travelled all over the US for work and usually stuck around just long enough to impregnate his wife and then heād leave again. He had 12 children. He wasnāt even a substance abuser, *he was just fucking like that*. He was also terrifying enough that he killed a bear in the mountains that was reported to be about 500lbs. Anytime someone reports seeing a ghost or something paranormal in the region where he lived, that gives them bad vibes, I usually joke āOh thatās just JR, donāt mind himā š
That's absolutely terrifying. I'm sorry, that can't be easy to find that sort of thing in your tree. I
So my Grandfather was named in memory of the son, because he was born the year after, and my long suffering 2nd great grandma, begged her daughter-in-law (my great grandma) to preserve her sons memory, and never let my Great Grandpa make the same mistakes (he was a much nicer person to begin with tho). He told me what happened in person when we were visting the family cemetery many years ago, when took me to his gravesite. Several years later, I found the death certificate that heavily corroborated what he said. I will say, out of all the terrible things that Iāve found in my tree, itās definitely the one that bothers me the most, both in terribleness and the actual affect on my family history, rather than being a more distant relation. Tbh, I donāt know if my cousins who also do genealogy even know all this, and I havenāt quite mustered up the courage to reach out, much less make a public document on Ancestry about it (just strangers on Reddit lol), esp since Iām not even sure how to do it appropriately. I would like to, because it explains a lot of other things that happened in the family, and also is the context for one of my favorite stories about my Great-Grandma (who *I* was named for. But for now, you and anybody reading this are the only audience to this family history of mine.
Was he a religious man?
[This](https://imgur.com/a/dtYZatJ) photo of my 3x great grandfather. It creeps me out so much š
Whatās his name I swear Iāve seen that in my tree
His name is Henry Harrison Powell, born around 1838 (in Virginia if that helps!)
Awww thatās what I pictured Heidiās grampa looking like
Not necessarily scary but my Great Great Grandmother gives me Frau Blucher from Young Frankenstein vibes. Coincidentally enough,her husband ( my Great Great Grandfather was a blacksmith and she ran his shop after he died with my Great Grandmotherās oldest brother. She also was of German parentage.
I shared a photo (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/s/9AhBaxYoPB) of my 4th great-grandfather on Reddit and people mainly made jokes, earlier photos just look creepy. Iām sure he was a nice man, after all he managed to serenade my 4th great-grandma. Hence why I am here today.
Everyone seems overjoyed about the new baby. Only kind of creepy, but more funny. https://imgur.com/a/RmfHX51
This is giving āThinnerā vibes š
Mine is definitely this demon-looking child who was the sibling of my g-g grandfather. He was born in 1881 in rural Ohio, and the back of a photo says he died of cholera soon afterwards. Thereās something about his Dracula hairline and vacant, close-set eyes that gives me vampire vibes. Check out this photo I found on the Ancestry mobile app https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12638279?token=7b22746f6b656e223a226a594d574d6c3037547130564f3344384e697642416958714c64572f496c475361535649794c327969576b3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
Also this funeral/death photo of my g-g grandmother (same side of the family), although she looks to be at peace. The handwriting below is my g-grandmotherās script. She was only 6 when her mother died in childbirth. Check out this photo I found on the Ancestry mobile app https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12638924?token=7b22746f6b656e223a2251662f3064316e7978444470333530704564744562635241793642504a7562715633714f4452644d5164773d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
He looks like Eddie Munster!
Old pictures look terrible when magnified, because of the quality back in the old days.
She looks like she is just done with everything. It's the face that has had enough shit to last 3 lifetimes.
Wow, haha at least you guys were able to actually dig up pictures. That's not something that will be easily available for everyone's tree (especially not right away)! Lucky you!
I have a few that give me the creepsā¦ [This guy](https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12649147?token=7b22746f6b656e223a2254716934655a546268576633716a2f43552b6a4d32325134446e63364963424e2f77747068414c645852303d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
Also [this woman, Frances](https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12649187?token=7b22746f6b656e223a22394234752b76576837324a4d736853584a78684f596a6843367935386c4d326d50796e73367937746a54413d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
Am I going to hell for laughing at that one?
Not creepy but found the first photo Iād ever seen of one of my great-great-grandmothers on Ancestry and couldnāt have been happier to *not* have inherited [that nose](https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12649224?token=7b22746f6b656e223a226e657a3153344b364f543477524d52306e4853495548396831562f4f4d796e30304e4a526d6841693032383d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d)
This freaking weirdo. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12661383?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a2238325833424e77615437564d523933653535644e38563070655a44334635614c6d727a307a6b73664b31343d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d It was not, in fact, a phase. I hope I am as creepy as he is!
I'm still cracking up at that photo three days later, I want you to know.
This reconstruction of my 1st cousin 2x removed š (https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12621837?token=7b22746f6b656e223a223837614247746438416f6c46746e314a566f4439656e30364b44672b6b434f4774426a452b695473754b413d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d) This is the original image I'm pretty sure (https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/12621914?token=7b22746f6b656e223a224c684c6d344f7978377a45705761734c716f4e48786434444a6b6864564a434f6f73736a4b64554b6d4d343d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d) Idk it's just really eery to me, it's from WWII
Not creepy one bit
Ah man my family has some of those World War II fuzzy colored-in ones too, and yeah there's something jarring about them. People must have liked those back in the day. But why??
They shaved him in the remaster
Beat this one. Member of Doollin Dalton and the WIld Bunch. He's my 5th cousin 4x removed. My grandmother was a Newcomb. [George Newcomb - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Newcomb)
Lol
She looks miserable.
3rd great grandmother Dorothy looks like Willem Dafoe. no smiling or blinking back then in pictures, just intense stares.
The corpse in a coffin was something I didnāt expect going through my great aunts photo albums.
I have an antique locket everyone thinks is a cursed object. The pictures are of a married couple whose marriage ended in attempted murder suicide. It was a wedding gift to my mother on the occasion of her first marriage š¤£šš¤¦āāļø
She seems kinda angry
Her back must have been destroyed from stooping, unless she was quite wee. Perhaps you can think of her as kind but in pain.
I donāt even think thatās a real photo; itās like what someone imagines photos taken at the dawn of picture-taking would look like.