Well, In one family tree the branches don't split for a generation... thanks Alabama! Literally bother and sister married... cool cool.
My paternal Grandfather, who told my father "he had walked across the country around a pool table", appears to have been a complete hustler/cad/playboy
My Great Grandmother who had a Jewish name, liked to take my brother and I to Neiman Marcus for lunch and cheese cake, and insisted that I call her "Nana" turns out to be from a long long (very long) line of native Virginian slave holders... so maybe not as advertised.
But on upside a lot of my family goes back beyond well beyond 1600 in the US, including some folks put on trial in Salem for Witchcraft, and more than a few familial relations to the founding fathers, and few who settled in Texas in the 1800's (after leaving their wives and children behind in NC, VA, TN, for new wives and kids)
My latest immigrant forefather was in the early 1800's from Germany (which is also a surprise) If figured the Germans in my family showed up post WW1 and I hoped were not fucking nazis... Turns out they hated the Prussians.
Old school Massachusetts and Virginia up in here...