Lets hear it, who are you related to?

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  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    My great great grandfather on my father's side is John Duffin. You don't know his name but you know his achievements. He was a wealthy industrialist who financed the construction of Wrigley Field in Chicago, as well gave Robert Ripley the loan he needed to get started opening up his exhibit at the World's Fair.
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    Noone that I know of but now I'd like to find out
  • cmpollard01
    cmpollard01 Posts: 246
    Not so famous, but Mickey Gilley (old country singer who used to be on HeeHaw) is my dad's cousin...I don't remember how far removed, but not really far.

    And on my mom's side, my Great Great Grandmother was Minnesota Windsor...yes, from England, and yes, those Windsors. Supposedly she had two brothers that had titles-one a lord and one an earl or some such, in both Scotland and England. Unfortunately, my grandmother passed away last year before I could write down all the cool stuff she remembered! :frown:
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    I am related to Daniel Boone!
  • LaGordita87
    LaGordita87 Posts: 161 Member
    My dad has a huge book that his uncle paid to have made, that goes back a couple hundred years of family history and the only name i read that might be considered famous was Black Jack Ketchum, he was a train robber.
  • nikket3000
    nikket3000 Posts: 18 Member
    I am somehow through my maternal grandmother related to Liliane Bettencourt. She is a French heiress, socialite, businesswoman and philanthropist. She is one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal and, with a fortune estimated at US$23.5 billion, is one of the wealthiest people in the world

    Also my grandfather on my fathers side was a renowned Jazz pianist who played with Miles Davis in NYC. He had his own television show too. He passed away about three years ago though.
  • cmpollard01
    cmpollard01 Posts: 246
    Rex Harrison was my great, great uncle! Not a massive claim to fame because unless you mention audry hepburn no one seems to know who he was, that and he was a horrid specimin of a human being

    I have to say, he may have been a horrid specimen, but between the ORIGINAL Dr. Doolittle and My Fair Lady, I was captivated by him as a child!
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    I am somehow through my maternal grandmother related to Liliane Bettencourt. She is a French heiress, socialite, businesswoman and philanthropist. She is one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal and, with a fortune estimated at US$23.5 billion, is one of the wealthiest people in the world

    Also my grandfather on my fathers side was a renowned Jazz pianist who played with Miles Davis in NYC. He had his own television show too. He passed away about three years ago though.
    That is really cool! We had a French foreign exchange student stay with us and either her grandfather or great-grandfather founded L'Oreal, I can't remember which.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    My Mother said Chuck Norris came to a family reunion I did not attend. He is married to her cousin.

    Oh and my Dad "famously" whipped my *kitten* when I needed it.:cry::drinker:
  • 1973CJ5
    1973CJ5 Posts: 41 Member
    Lady Jane Grey - from my fathers side

    Named as Queen by Henry VIII and later beheaded
  • dreamer722
    dreamer722 Posts: 57 Member
    Rob Roy
  • OneFitDude16
    OneFitDude16 Posts: 169
    my dad said we were related to jesse james somehow but idk if its true or not. i really don't care.
  • Bakerchk
    Bakerchk Posts: 424 Member
    Barrack Obama.

    I believe it!
  • terrappyn
    terrappyn Posts: 324 Member
    Per my grandfather-We are related to Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein)
  • lorib75
    lorib75 Posts: 490 Member
    Our family actually has a published author who followed our family tree back to John Quincy Adams.
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    The most interesting person in my family history is a man who "signed away" his "Indian rights" so he could run for mayor of some small town (I can't remember if he won). One of my aunts is obsessed with genealogy and found this person through a search of census records, birth certificates, etc., so I think the paper trail on this claim is pretty good. Not that it's anything to brag about.
  • shani251
    shani251 Posts: 145 Member
    Erik the Red
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    My last name.. ¨Roche¨ in on Lady Di´s family (her mom´s side).. We always called her my aunt haha, and Prince Harry/William my cousins.
  • xYumzx
    xYumzx Posts: 953 Member
    Ulysses S. Grant(18th President) && Francis Lewis(Signer of United States Declaration of Independence).... && and I have the proof stamped and sealed ;)
  • cassuccino
    cassuccino Posts: 702 Member
    I'm a Mayflower descendant as well but my Dad traced our family tree and we're related to Johnny Appleseed.

    Next time you take a bite out of an apple, think of me. ;-)
  • Darkskinned88
    Darkskinned88 Posts: 1,177 Member
    probably Thomas Jefferson. Bazinga.
  • dward2011
    dward2011 Posts: 416 Member
    George Lindsey was my cousin (RIP). He played Goober Pyle from the Andy Griffith Show.

    Now I want to go to Ancestry.com!
  • dodihere
    dodihere Posts: 490
    Chuck Norris, for real
  • Meloyelo2010
    Meloyelo2010 Posts: 171 Member
    Joan of Arc
  • TamsinEllis
    TamsinEllis Posts: 293
    David Sol is my distant cousin.. Also, a NYC detective that worked on the Jack the Ripper case for over 10 years called us a few years back and is about 100% positive my great, great, great grandfather was the mass murderer. There's a lot of mental illness in my family, plus the time line matches up along with other evidence. Sounds insane and people often debate to me about it, but I have nothing to prove. : )

    I'm sorry I have to debate you here just because NYC detective that worked on the Jack the Ripper case? Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick but Jack the Ripper was in 1888, and in Whitechapel, England, Scotland Yard dealt with it and the case was officially closed in 1892 even though the identity of the murderer has never been confirmed, only speculated. Unless there is an american Jack the Ripper case?

    As for me no one famous that I know of, however I am a direct descendant of the Sinti so maybe that counts for something haha!
  • Bryson_Spilman
    Bryson_Spilman Posts: 1
    I am a direct linear decendent of Sir William Espileman (Spilman). He is my 22nd Great Grandfather.
  • kindasortachewy
    kindasortachewy Posts: 1,084 Member
    I've been told Jesse James and my great grandma used to have sex
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    My dad was on the small team that created Xanax and Halcion.
  • Yari_getsfit
    Yari_getsfit Posts: 16 Member
    Frankie Muñiz from Malcolm in the Middle
  • Rayvenstar
    Rayvenstar Posts: 5
    As far as I've heard, I'm related to Edgar Allen Poe which makes me very very happy, lol.

    **EDIT**: This is from my uncle who's spent years researching the family tree. I hate him, but he has his uses, lol.
    Technically, he's a distant relative. His wife, Virginia (who was also his cousin) is a closer relative

    Either way, it's a win with me, lol

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