One of my ancestors killed a hunting party of Indians in Virginia. Was put in the local gaol. Family sticks by family, so they took axes and clubs and beat the building in so he could escape the hanging due him. He spent a winter in a riverbottem inside a hollow tree.
Another ancestor was the developer of treatment for malaria while the Panama Canal was being built.
Good and bad in most everyone's history. We make our own lives. I have always told my children to take what they see in their parents as good and build on that. Discard the bad stuff.