On my mother's side, Aunt Angie used to stay with the long-ailing wife of Jethro, when Homer and Jethro went "on the road".

A more serious note:

On my father's side, his uncles (6) and their cousins (2) formed a band in Ukraine in 1938. They played weddings and other shindigs and began inching their way west across Eastern Europe finally escaping to England. Two sisters were then sent to Siberia as family punishment for the escape of their brothers.