Ancestry/Genealogy

Sometimes I think that genealogy is the ultimate in comedy. I had to laugh when I went through a slew of court records for one of my ancestors. He was in court every year, refusing to pay his taxes because it was "his land". And every year, they fined him 2X the amount of the taxes, which he paid, so it wasn't a money issue - it was just the principal of the thing. As dumb as it might seem now to voluntarily pay 2X the amount of the taxes, I had to admire him for sticking to his principals.