I've just discovered that there's good probablity that I'm related to Ed Gein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein.

I was just chatting with my neices, and they said that my father told my SIL that
Gein was my grandpa's (my dad's dad) cousin. My neice was saying that Ed Gein's mother's name was Agusta. So I'm looking up the name of my great grandfathers sisters.....and turns out that one of them is named Ida Agusta.

So if it's true, Ed Gein was my 1st cousin twice removed. *shudders

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... and her maiden name is sure familiar...

oh FUN. that's like in the movie Hitch where Smith hooks Eva Mendez up with the landing documents of her great grandfather or whoever, and then he finds out he was not a butcher by trade but named The Butcher because of being a killer. How romantic was THAT date ?

but it would be interesting to form and follow the family tree for notoriety sake

Yeah, his grandfather would be my great great grandfather Johanne Lehrke, who apparently came to this country.....to Wisconsin, from Prussia. I have all the names and dates in my family tree. And the dates match up.

omg is it bad that i think that is SO COOL???? lol

ETA ok maybe not so cool about the woman's skin part - ICKY!! but the whole general theme of watching those movies in the future and saying 'hey i am related to the guy who this movie inspired'

Again.....

lol yeah I guess it's easy to feel differently when it's not my family.... but who knows what's lurking!

I think it would be interesting to do a gene vs environment study between him and my grandfather. They are so incredibly different.

yeah i was thinking about that earlier, like wondering if it was all environment, or if there was some sort of mishap during ed's creation/birth, both, or what. lots of people, sadly, grow up in violent depraved homes but only a % of them turn out like mr gein... it would be 'good' to study why and how that happens.