Ok....my husband's paternal great grandfather, was a full-blood Italian, and a boot maker. He left his home in Tyler one day in the early 1900's, got on the train to meet up with a man to deliver a pair of boots he had made....and was never seen nor heard from again. No one can find a trace of him....spooky!!
And for me.....while not really an "ancestor" but can I brag about my Dad for a minute? He invented the Handball Glove, and was inducted into the Handball Hall of Fame in 1986...and that's my only "claim to fame!!"