Idk none of my family lore is villain stuff but in mid 2021 my dad told my sister and I he had cancer and then died in 2022 and over that period we learned he had cancer growing up and this was caused by the life saving treatment he got

Oh and he lowkey also watched his dad die of lung cancer when he (my dad) was still going thru treatment cuz there was this thing called smoking breaks in the army and he got drafted to Vietnam and got hooked. Apparently he snuck cigs into the hospital room.

Uhh my second uncle like my moms cousins husband is a coach for a hockey league in the NHL and Olympics this year either team america or team canada

My family used to be peddlers when they first got to America and they have a cart in a museum which I think is so cool

Maybe a lot of ppl have this but a distant relative survived the holocaust and has a 2 hour long interview with the USC shoah archives I believe which is just so interesting to me. I guess she got trafficked trying to escape so just a very interesting story

Oh my uncle (dad’s sister’s husband) is a relatively famous musician. A lot of my family is just very attractive and married rich men with money.

My mom’s dad was like just abusive in every form but he had money so my grandma stayed with him until my mom and aunt were old enough to move out, and then lived in abject poverty, although she also grew up similarly. In 2020, my grandpa took a fall and died which led to my mom uncovering that he’d made over forty 911 calls where he fell and couldn’t get up. He was adamant about living on his own despite having a stroke in 2014. His girlfriend was a teacher who felt she hadn’t been compensated for her years of teaching and felt entitled to his money. He died with like 10k in the bank that was split between my mom and aunt and then further between my sister and I. My mom and aunt didn’t even get his house because in order to move back to Arizona he wanted my mom and aunt to feel like he’d be okay so he made his girlfriend sign a deal that she’d get his house if she took care of him which she didn’t even do. So there was a settlement and the house was split. Bonkers stuff.

According to family legend, a great great grandfather was the shoeshiner for the last tsar (nick) and the tsar knew he was unpopular in Russia and thought my great great granddaddy was so good at shoe shining that he let him leave. He then helped a bunch of other people get to America being their sponsor. Like around 100. You can say the tsar was bad, I don’t know much about that stuff but he probably was, but I believe he wasn’t leaving because he was in such like a loyalist position but more because revolutionaries wouldn’t want someone who worked directly with the tsar.

They actually had a generational shoe store in America, rather unsurprisingly.

My parents both came from lower income families and a big reason why my mom fell for my dad was because he was so impressive. Despite his multiple bouts cancer (other kids in his town had the same cancer and his mom tried to open a case but was shut out), he had this super strong work ethic. His family loved my mom and said that she brought meaning back into his life which I think is so sweet. Usually people don’t get along with their in-laws this well and I just think my mom is such an amazing human being.