Hello and thank you for visiting this page! I've started to put together a family tree that allows us Wackadoodles to trace our lineage all the way back to Italy in the late 19th century. I've been combing through archives from the many places our family has lived, and it's crazy how many things have happened to us over the years. From Italy and Ireland all the way to the USA, we Wackadoodles have sure left some absurdity in our wake! My grandmom used to joke that we had to leave Europe because everyone there had grown tired of our antics, which I find hard to believe.
I'm very excited to show off what I've put together so far, even if it's not the most complete or coherent family narrative. I've been doing my best to include as many scraps of information as I can find about each branch of our family, but I am having a bit of trouble with getting info on some of the older generations, like the Top Italians and the Very Top Irish.
If any of y'all have any information about them or just any information you'd specifically like me to include about anyone in our family, please let me know in the comments!!
Also, in case this is somehow the first time you're hearing about it:
We're having our first full family reunion in 20 years!! See the countdown timer in the sidebar and click here for more details. I look forward to seeing you all soon, and don't forget to contact me with family tree info!
- Bob's Your Uncle
Recently Modified Histories
2024 Sep 03
ITGM The Top Italians
Even though we modern Wackadoodles have had to put up with a lot, the Top Italians had to put up with ... substantially more. They fled Fascist Italy in the 1940s and wound up in sunny Samatoonie, California with their three children, (Great) Aunt Mary, (Great) Uncle Joe, and of course our Great Grandmom Angela with her family in tow.
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2024 Sep 01
Maggie John Simpson + Abe Bob Maxter
Maggie John Simpson + Abe Bob Maxter
Now who could these people be? I’ve never heard of them before… Just kidding! My parents met in college and eloped immediately after graduation. The most remarkable thing about my parents is how completely normal they are. Where the rest of our family has some kind of bizarre or storied past, our particular branch of the tree is not that interesting.
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2024 Sep 01
Josef
Josef JoJo Simpson + Juicy Klien
Uncle Josef Jojo Simpson (everyone always spells out his full name) and his wife Ms. Klien have always been the black sheep of the modern Wackadoodle family. They live in Michigan, where Ms. Klien was born. she and her parents were members of a strange order that believed that the world would end at the turn of the millennium, but mostly used this as an excuse for members of all ages to get wasted.
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2024 Sep 01
Gmom Boilers
- Mom's Gmom Jean Something + Gpop John Roy Boilers
According to what I've found, when the Boilers got to the USA, they were shocked that the stories of America being a great melting pot were true.
Grandma Margie once explained it like this:
Read more…"My parents weren't prejudiced, they just didn't feel comfortable around people who grew up different from them, that's all."
2024 Sep 01
Friends
Just like Family
These are important folks to the family over the years. Some just seem like family and some just seem like ......
- The Happy SOB
- Sr. Mary Joseph Sally Blue
- Steamboat Willy