At age 18, he is a tobacco farmer, just like his father, grandfather and great grandfather.
His great grandfather, in 1910, found the skeleton in a boarded-up closet when he was renovating a Waterbury building.
This midcentury Beverly Hills classic was opened in 1955 by Conrad Hilton, great grandfather to blond socialite Paris Hilton.
Other remarkable inductees included George Devol, who has been called the father, grandfather, and great grandfather of industrial robotics.
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The current law grants birthright citizenship to anyone with a parent, a grandfather or a great grandfather who held Italian citizenship.
The son that would become Michelle Obama's great grandfather was not born yet.
After all, that's been the Anderson family trade since 1891, when his great-great grandfather came to Callaway County from Sweden.
Jeff Taylor, from Ontario, Canada, joined MyFarm because his great grandfather had worked at Wimpole Hall in the early 1900s.
On another episode of the same show, actor Jack Thompson learned that his great-great-great grandfather was a convict from Ireland, charged with highway robbery.
Pam van Hylckama Vlieg of Williamsburg, Virginia, says her great grandfather, Glen Surber, resorted to stealing food at times because he had hit rock-bottom.
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He possessed robes that had been made for his great-great grandfather when a ban was lifted in 1829 on Roman Catholics sitting in Parliament.
Bringing your friends home to show off a new Ham radio or your great-great-great grandfather's rebel flag probably won't boost your popularity in high school.
One of the best known fileteado artists is Alfredo Genovese, whose Italian great grandfather was a decorative painter of public buildings and burial vaults in Buenos Aires.
Ford is a member of the board of trustees of The Henry Ford, which is a collection of unique educational experiences, founded by his great grandfather.
Digging into her memories, van Hylckama Vlieg says her great grandfather eventually found a work program after the New Deal and was able to rebuild his life.
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His great, great grandfather Thomas started the business in the 1920s and it was carried on by his grandfather Walter and father Thomas who retired 20 years ago.
"My great grandfather's favorite pizza was very simple, " he says.
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He's a thoughtful man of 51 with a more than routine feeling of responsibility for the onetime family firm that was founded by his great-great grandfather in Somerville, Mass. 126 years ago.
My father, although he suffered from heart failure related dementia, competed very successfully at what he wanted most: to be a loving great grandfather who wanted to spend as much time with his grandchildren as possible.
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Mr Howard, a business consultant, had claimed his father, 76, whose original surname was Lawson, had "forfeited" his right to inherit the castle in 1962 by neglecting to comply with some terms in his great grandfather's will.
However, no amount of online searching, staring at microfilm or even a private luxury tour can match the actual discovery of, say, your great, great grandfather's headstone in the grounds of a tiny Devon chapel, or knocking on the door of that thatched village house that was home to your long-dead relatives.
To Mr. Lyle, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all bookies, this fact was very attractive.
He joined a plethora of family members who served, including my grandfather and great-grandfather, a bunch of uncles and cousins and my father-in-law.
Her grandfather and great-grandfather served in the Royal Malta Regiment and the Malta Crown Advocate, and they were in turn descended from the Maltese nobleman, the Marquis di Taflia.
He was also a family man and my father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather.
But what, Michel, about the lives of your great-great-grandfather, your great-great-grandmother?
My grandfather and my great-grandfather both served in the Navy during World War II which likely explains why both of my brothers are also Navy men (though one is now retired from the military).
The couple, married in 1940 at St John's Church in Taunton, Somerset, had two children and Mr Hoare is now grandfather to six and great-grandfather to a further six children.
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