Tell us about it. Our family records have turned up the Captain of the USS Cumberland when she was sunk by the Confederate Merrimac on the one hand, and Alphonse 'Scarface' Capone on the other. Not direct ancestors, but 'off to the side'. One we did have was a woman who scalped the Indians in the late 1600's....they'd kidnapped her and murdered her baby and took her up the Ohio River for over 1000 miles before she made her escape. She took the scalps so gossips in her home town would not wag their tongues about her going 'willingly'. Others from the same era were some of the fiercest 'fire and brimstone' preachers this nation has ever produced. Then there were the ones who were officers in Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate outfit in the War Between the States. So go figure. Oh yeah, we had lots of Mormons too. One book we found traces some of us directly to some 'Battle Memorial' in the south of England where Duke William of Normandy came ashore in 1066. the Castletons