Lets hear it, who are you related to?

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  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    My Dad's cousin is a bit of celebrity in Canada - he's Paul Henderson who scored the winning goal against the USSR in the 1972 ice hockey Summit Series.
  • gpstrucker
    gpstrucker Posts: 930 Member
    The well researched genealogy on my paternal side lists Priscilla Mullins (a Mayflower passenger), John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Dan Quayle.
  • kittib
    kittib Posts: 3
    Great, great, great ( and maybe one more great).. uncle Zebulon Pike (explorer who found Pike's Peak....was it lost?) on my father's mother's side and Stonewall Jackson (shot while drunk by own sentry??? ) on my mother's mother's side.... and lots of other miscreants hahahah...
  • kittib
    kittib Posts: 3
    Stonewall Jackson
  • kittib
    kittib Posts: 3
    Oh I forgot....I am related to Brandi ....and thus she is related to Zebulon Pike too!!! LOL
  • Bahet
    Bahet Posts: 1,254 Member
    Hubby is related to Lucas Black, Alvin York (The one the movie Sgt York was based from) and Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter). There's no one famous in my family.
  • klynn81
    klynn81 Posts: 178 Member
    Bing Crosby.
  • psmith_five
    psmith_five Posts: 55 Member
    I'm a Smith so I know there's got to be someone famous I'm related to but tracking it on the other hand is a different story.
  • Ntdrkyet
    Ntdrkyet Posts: 64 Member
    My geneology tree on my mothers side has been traced to Madonna, and my great uncle worked at the prison in New York (Sing Sing, I think) that held the Rosenburgs (russian spies)ad he was the one who "pulled the switch" when they were put to death...
  • Jenloma
    Jenloma Posts: 77 Member
    My great grandfather was the U.S. Olympic coach for the fencing team. Not sure the year though. But that is cool! :)
  • Skeebee
    Skeebee Posts: 740 Member
    Supposedly, I'm related to a mob/mafia leader from the 30's. I wish I knew the name....my dad knows.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I am related to no one. I am alone in the world.
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    Tom Bergeron (From Dancing with the Stars)... his uncle married into my father's side of the family. His Uncle became my Grandfather many moons ago...
  • Jenloma
    Jenloma Posts: 77 Member
    I would have to call my grandmother, but from the show Laurel & Hardy, I believe Laurel married into my mother's side of the family.

    But it was either Laurel or Hardy for sure.



    Also, my great grandfather was the U.S. Olympic coach for the fencing team. Not sure the year though. But that is cool! :)
  • rmkramer003
    rmkramer003 Posts: 115 Member
    Mary Nichols - First victim of Jack the Ripper.
  • daffy77
    daffy77 Posts: 28 Member
    Some interesting people and such a variety!
  • samb330
    samb330 Posts: 328 Member
    Charles Manson...(he was adopted), so we don't share the same blood.:indifferent:
  • KBjimAZ
    KBjimAZ Posts: 369 Member
    My Great Grandfather (my mother's-mother's-dad) was Elmer Lacy. He's not famous, but he is to me. He was a blacksmith. He had his own shop at his house, and at a foundry (before machines replaced men). That man WORKED for his living. He also hand made a pair of "vice-grips"....forged and formed...all by hand, and they are about 18 inches long....and they are in the bottom drawer of my toolbox. The most awesome tool that I own!
  • dovesgate
    dovesgate Posts: 894 Member
    Another Mayflower descendant here.... of Myles Standish. Not just family lore... verified.

    Hey there cousin!
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    We were able to trace my grandmother's (father's mother's) ancestry back to disgraced French royalty, and thereby, all the way back to Rome. I found out that I'm the 79th great grandchild of Charlemagne.
  • astina2727
    astina2727 Posts: 149 Member
    Cant think of anyone famous however my distant uncle built the company express.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    I'm adopted so I don't really count it but my mom says she tracked back to Andrew jackson. Apparently that's a massive deal.

    Hey me too. He's a cousin. Freddy Jackson was my great uncle. He never had kids and he killed the direct bloodline from Andrew Jackson.
  • Jeremy_
    Jeremy_ Posts: 36 Member
    Francis Scott Key
  • amselby81
    amselby81 Posts: 150 Member
    I don't know because no one in my family has really traced our lineage far back enough. I'm really interested though. The only thing that I kind of have is that my father told me that his grandmother was a cousin or something to Alfred Hitchcock. I don't know how much credit that has, and I'm not sure if they were first cousins or distant cousins.
  • davidsgirl145
    davidsgirl145 Posts: 162 Member
    Adam and Eve?
  • A_Shannigans
    A_Shannigans Posts: 170 Member
    According to my mother (the family genealogist its almost an obsession for her) we're descendants of Prince John of the Plantagenet Dynasty. It would explain why we are so bossy ! :laugh: If there was anyone else famous I have forgotten who they were. One branch of the family's sir name was Lee but she traced it back and we're no relation to Robert E. We do still pass the name Lee down as a middle name though.
  • davidsgirl145
    davidsgirl145 Posts: 162 Member
    Mary Nichols - First victim of Jack the Ripper.

    Holy tea and strumpets! That is interesting and a little sad! Poor Mary!
  • icreate
    icreate Posts: 60
    I was a mermaid before... I want to be a part of your world :wink:
  • davidsgirl145
    davidsgirl145 Posts: 162 Member
    I was a mermaid before... I want to be a part of your world :wink:

    cuz we've got whozits and whutzits galore!!! that's why! :laugh:
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    I don't know because no one in my family has really traced our lineage far back enough. I'm really interested though. The only thing that I kind of have is that my father told me that his grandmother was a cousin or something to Alfred Hitchcock. I don't know how much credit that has, and I'm not sure if they were first cousins or distant cousins.
    Me too but it would be interesting to know our family's history. Since I came from two countries ruled by Spain so all I know is that we became descendants of the Conquistadores who tried to mix with the native women. I have no idea if we have Aztec blood though since my Mexican side of family actually originated from Southern Spain who just came to Mexico. However I wonder if we have Gitano (gypsies in Spain) or Moor running in our veins too since I look more like these people than the Spaniards.

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