My family tree...

...is full of interesting and colorful people. There's George Ives, the scoundrel. He was so bad that they hang him every year in effigy.

http://www.experiencegoldwest.com/listings/16583.htm

Poor George.

Then there was Mabel Ives. She was pretty cool. Towering over most men of her time at 6 ft. I hear that she owned the town of Ely Nevada once and worked as a seamstress for a Hollywood movie studio when she was committed to a sanatorium after she was diagnosed with TB.

Then there's this fella;

http://garyives.wordpress.com/

He's a published author! That's my uncle :-) Pretty cool! Check it out.