[Aliska]

There's also the "act like a fool factor", which no one wants to admit their ancestors did. In my experience, genealogists are really nice people who nevertheless like everything exact, cut and dried, and are absolutely sure that *only they* have the correct information.

I hadn't found any real black sheep until I found a 3rd cousin once removed in Bellevue, Washington, James Schumacher, who killed his wife with a hatchet in 2012.

I guess that's not an ancestor but it was through researching an ancestor that I finally tracked him down because I was looking for living cousins from lines they didn't know the others existed.

[ladyjane]

I found a possible black sheep, sort of related. He apparently shot his wife and her lover in a car up near Alaska. Not 100% sure it was a relative, could have been someone with the same name.

[bert]

-—killed his wife with a hatchet in 2012-—

you should thank goodness he didn’t use a gun

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, that’s quite a find.