Each of us in the family has at least one relative who can and should be proud of. Some of them defended their homeland in the war, the second were outstanding artisans or creative personalities, and the third looked so cool that it was impossible to stop looking at them. People decided not to hide pictures of their cool ancestors in family albums, but shared their photos with the whole Internet, for which they should be thanked.

"My grandmother served in the merchant navy during World War II. This photograph was taken around 1943."

"My grandmother in New York in the early 40s"

"My mom has been making clothes for herself since the 70s. She was cool then and still is."

"My great-grandfather Victor, around the 1920s"

"Granny Having Fun With Her Girlfriends, 1940s"

"My dad in 1984"

"My great-grandfather (left) and his good friend worked as blacksmiths in Illinois in 1910."

"My mom traveled to France when she was 20. Early 70s"

"My great-grandfather looked very cocky with his pet lion (it was 40s) named Toney."

"My ex-husband's posh grandparents were around the 1940s."

"My great-grandfather was a French police officer and warned the Jews when the Germans followed them. It was he on their wedding day in 1925."

"Granny was hot. Late 1950s or early 1960s"

"My grandfather with his catch in the mid 60s. He fished in Sweden and went to Finland to exchange it for meat."

"My Dangerous Grandmother in 1968"

"My father poses with the cat Brutus, 1985"

"My grandfather looked like he was in The Godfather. Italy, circa 1945."

"My granny with strippers, late 1980s"

"My great-grandmother near her first car, 1920s"

"My mom in 1982, before she became the first female police officer in South Windsor, Connecticut."