Lets hear it, who are you related to?

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  • dovesgate
    dovesgate Posts: 894 Member
    I'm a descendant on my maternal grandmother's side of Myles Standish from the Mayflower. His second son, Alexander, is one of my greats. Funny that some of you mention John Alden. Alexander was married to John Alden's daughter Sarah first and then to Desire, my ancestor.

    My maiden name is the same as one of the ladies-in-waiting to one of the major English queens but we haven't really traced my father's side much.
  • Laura_Suzie
    Laura_Suzie Posts: 1,288 Member
    I'm so jealous of everyone. I asked my dad if we were related to anyone famous or of historical significance. Turns out a had an ancestor that was in the Civil War, until he ran away. He then re-enlisted under a false name because he needed the money. I also had an ancestor that built bridges.

    THAT is my family's legacy... god we're boring...
  • amnsetie
    amnsetie Posts: 666 Member
    **** Whittington is the most famous on my dad's side.
    Yes the guy with the cat.
    Mum's side have a castle in Scotland but I'm being private here so that's all I'm sayin'.
  • mirandamayhem
    mirandamayhem Posts: 772
    **** Whittington is the most famous on my dad's side.
    Yes the guy with the cat.
    Mum's side have a castle in Scotland but I'm being private here so that's all I'm sayin'.

    Haha! I live in Gloucester, near where **** Whittington was born!
  • tistal
    tistal Posts: 869 Member
    My kids are related to Edgar Allan Poe on their dads side :/
  • WarriorCupcakeBlydnsr
    WarriorCupcakeBlydnsr Posts: 2,150 Member
    I have discovered through Ancestry.com some very interesting ancestors of mine. My 8th GGrandfather was on the jury for the Salem Witch Trials, my 10th GGrandparents and their son, my 9th GGrandfather with the name Fuller came over on the Mayflower and signed the Mayflower Compact, then I have 2 grandparents whose lineage takes me back to King Edward and his brother, Edmund, who were the sons of King Henry. This line leads back to Charlegmane. Great thread. It's so interesting.

    I'm a direct descendent of Edward Fuller (and son Samuel) of the Mayflower, as well :)

    Also descended from William the Conqueror, and 'Bad King John' Lackland of England...the one nobody liked ;)

    I'm also a Mayflower descendant: John Howland, 13th signer of the Mayflower Compact (he's the one that is better known for having fallen overboard) and also a descendant of the original Sherwoods that were given Sherwood forest by William the Conqueror
  • JessigirlJb
    JessigirlJb Posts: 656
    Mary Lincoln Todd.. I am her niece. I get invited to the Todd family reunion every year. Mary Lincoln Todd was the wife of Abraham Lincoln so that makes him my uncle.
  • samandlucysmum
    samandlucysmum Posts: 320
    I am related by marriage to both Thomas Hardy's. The writer, and the sailor.
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    Supposedly Rob Roy.
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    Through tracing back of the family trees, I'm related to Benjamin Franklin and Robert the Bruce (who did not actually betray William Wallace, that was all Hollywood crap thankyouverymuch).
  • rondom41
    rondom41 Posts: 16
    Hey, me too! :)
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Since I'm Italian, clearly I'm descended from Columbus.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I'm not related to anyone, I decend from grunts and slaves.
  • zophiel67
    zophiel67 Posts: 181
    Amelia Earhart. And I have proof. :wink:
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    Not in history, but Daisy Fuentes is a cousin through marriage.
  • fueledbychange
    fueledbychange Posts: 132 Member
    Chad Pennington, the football player! He's a cousin of mine.
  • ErinBeth7
    ErinBeth7 Posts: 1,625 Member
    Supposedly, I am a distant cousin to June Carter, so related to Johnny Cash through marriage. I have no proof.
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    A chicken thief who was run out of his home state. True story.
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    Boxing champ "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the last bare-fisted heavy-weight campion of the world. My grandmother's uncle.
  • laarae
    laarae Posts: 332 Member
    My maternal grandmother was a great-great niece of Daniel Webster-yes the dictionary Webster (her maiden name was Webster)
  • unluckyIrish
    unluckyIrish Posts: 121 Member
    Jesse James, the outlaw. On my dad's side. I'd have to ask my grandma for the exact relation, but she did the genealogy for our family tree a few years ago.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    The Sager orphans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sager_orphans )from Seven Alone movie/book - first cousins to my mother's dad and the Sullivan brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers) - second cousins to my father.
  • kelleygi
    kelleygi Posts: 583 Member
    Margret Mitchell (author of Gone with the Wind). My maternal Grandmothers 2nd cousin.
  • ickybella
    ickybella Posts: 1,438 Member
    The ravenous bugblatter beast of traal
  • ErrataCorrige
    ErrataCorrige Posts: 649 Member
    I'm a Mayflower descendant: John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Her father apparently brought crates of shoes for himself but not a single useful tool. I believe that I inherited the family mannerisms for packing for a trip.

    I'm also related to the inventor of the Ferris wheel. By way of my father's mother. Her mother was Julia Ferris and married a Campbell.

    I am also a Mayflower descendant, of William Brewster, elder of the colony and religous leader.
  • PrncessBre
    PrncessBre Posts: 444 Member
    Jon Beason of the Carolina Panthers is my 2nd cousin :smile:
  • angiemartin78
    angiemartin78 Posts: 475 Member
    Sandra Bullock - a distant cousin on my fathers side (supposedly)
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
    Vikings
  • brimarie95
    brimarie95 Posts: 81 Member
    Been told that the family tree on grandmother's side tracks back to Daniel Boone.
  • fatima147
    fatima147 Posts: 85
    have no idea and couldnt care less! ;)

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