Lets hear it, who are you related to?

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  • spicypepper
    spicypepper Posts: 1,016 Member
    I am related to Pat Benatar and the man is related to Nicholas Cage and Francis Ford Coppola.

    Of course we're also both Irish, so we're related to King Brian Boru too :wink:
  • da1128
    da1128 Posts: 212 Member
    Ozzy Osbourne...his first name is actually John. From my mum's side of the family. I also have a female ancestor who was quite the ho and was shipped off to Australia from England many moons ago.
  • EZaccone85
    EZaccone85 Posts: 107 Member
    My Great Grand Father - in 1957 Al Roth purchased 10 acres to turn into a Grove....founded Roth New River Groves in Davie, Florida.
  • daffy77
    daffy77 Posts: 28 Member
    My uncle was the head of the government printing organization and my dads cousin is Joe Biden

    but I'm famous all on my own
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    On my Dad's side, related to the person who built one of the first lifeboats in England, has the patent for and built 31 other lifeboats! Henry Greathead. Backed up by family and legal records.

    I know, not exactly famous but a big thing in seaside towns with lifeboats! lol
  • suelegal
    suelegal Posts: 1,282 Member
    My earliest known relative is reportedly the assassinator of King Charles back in the 1600s. And my aunt Martha and her daughter Sarah were two of the last women hanged as witches in the Salem Witch Trials.
  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
    bump..cant wait to read these..when i was 17, i lived in a small town, so small than anyone new was immediately out of place, and a friend of mine and i noticed a strange man acting crazy while walking down main st. we stopped to talk to him, and he told us he was related to dr. dre AND snoop dog:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • ChaseAlder
    ChaseAlder Posts: 804 Member
    The mafia.

    I've already said too much.
  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
    I am related to Ma Barker's boys. Not to her though, she married into our family, but her boys (including the one who was killed trying to escapre from Alcatraz) are blood relations.

    that ROCKS !! i never heard of them until 2 days ago, there was a whole episode about them..
  • Tat2dDom624
    Tat2dDom624 Posts: 1,226 Member
    Lucky Luciano, the gangster. I believe he was my great grandmother's cousin.
  • PrincessNikkiBoo
    PrincessNikkiBoo Posts: 330 Member
    Bump
  • KaidaKantri
    KaidaKantri Posts: 401
    I was told I'm related to some great singer or other. I don't remember, and even if it was true, I don't give a damn. O.o
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Descended from Irish kings. Real ones. (Have you noticed everyone with a remotely Irish connection sees themselves as related to Irish kings... ? :-D )

    http://ceallachan.users.50megs.com/callahan.html

    My great, great aunt was a palace chambermaid, and it's rumoured her child was a fitzroy.... (I really don't buy this stuff, just to be clear. But it makes for a good family story!)
  • sho3girl
    sho3girl Posts: 10,799 Member
    distant relationship was in band Brotherhood of Man are a British pop group who achieved success in the 1970s, most notably by winning the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with "Save Your Kisses for Me".
  • suzieqcookie
    suzieqcookie Posts: 314 Member
    My Grandmother's aunt married Alexander Graham Bell.. that's all i got
  • galaxiasmama
    galaxiasmama Posts: 18
    Joseph Smith, supposedly Bonnie & Clyde, the lady who invented Cheese Whiz but wasn't credited for it so no one knows about her (she made it for troops), and a queen. My aunt is mormon so she does TONS of genealogy research...so I've been told I'm related to these people
  • muwchck
    muwchck Posts: 261 Member
    Robert E Lee and Meriwether Lewis (Lewis and Clark). I actually have in my possession the publish book with the family history from as far back as they can go up until my now 24 year old cousin in it. And since I'm 5 years older than her, I'm in the book too. It's pretty cool, and Lee is a family name that is passed through every generation somewhere, my youngest son has it as his middle name, and when he's old enough, I'll explain why.
  • Jhillian
    Jhillian Posts: 185 Member
    Sadly nothing remotely interesting but My Poppy(Paternal) John Miller Jr was related to a Rum Runner

    http://www.countyquest.ca/rumrun.html

    No I'm not a drinker lol
  • spottedlee
    spottedlee Posts: 372
    my dad's distance cousin,,, Marion Morrison May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    You all know him by his stage name.
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    Give up? John Wayne
  • KrisThomas1964
    KrisThomas1964 Posts: 150
    My mother once told me we are related to ( Virginia Wade ) the tennis player from the 1960's
  • xxcandywrathxx
    xxcandywrathxx Posts: 200 Member
    Im related to Richard Dawkins, the famous atheist or whatever.
  • autumnk921
    autumnk921 Posts: 1,374 Member
    My grandmother is really big on tracing our family tree back all of the way to the Prince of Wales but I know for sure that I am related to the members of the country music group - Alabama -I am related to both Randy Owen (Lead singer) & Teddy Gentry (Lead Guitarist) & they are related by marriage and they are from Shepherdsville, where the Owen & Gentry families are from which is also my last name and where my family is from...It's pretty cool - When I saw the way that we are related and how closely related we are...It was a pretty big deal when I was younger that is for sure....That is all I got though...lol

    Love this topic....Very fun to read!! :)


    ETA: Pictures - In case anyone didn't know who they were....They are still around too.. :)

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  • Rystmom
    Rystmom Posts: 11 Member
    My great (unsure how many) grandfather Stephen Chandlier is a documented medal of valor recipient from the civil war!
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    Naomi, Wynonna, & Ashley Judd are my cousins. My mom brags about it all the time, no I've never met them in person.
  • chunkylover22
    chunkylover22 Posts: 162 Member
    John Wilkes Booth. The murderer of our 16th President, Abe Lincoln.
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    The mafia.

    I've already said too much.

    My husband's mom side of the family is Italian Mafia. Even told him, if we ever need anyone taken care of :wink: just let them know. Yea....we haven't took them up on the offer.
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    Lol. I actually am related to the Queen of England. On my Dad's side, our family tree goes back to the time of Henry VIII etc. :laugh:

    Not related to the royal family, but my husbands father's side were body guards to the royal family.
  • HogSandwich
    HogSandwich Posts: 146 Member
    Oh man - my dads side (scandinavian/eastern european) are descended from a few E.European royal familes, including the Transylvanian Royals (probably on the wrong side of the sheets, but hey) which lands me in the bloodline of Vlad the Impaler. And Elizabeth Bathory. As in, bathes in the blood of a thousand virgins Elizabeth Bathory. Woot.

    Mums side is a big melting pot of welsh witches, coal miners and communists.

    My favorite celeb relation is one of my close friends - she's a grandneice of the actress who plays Mrs Slowcombe on Are You Being Served? The friend in question is a standup, so all is right with the world.
  • psychopiglet
    psychopiglet Posts: 130 Member
    Considering every generation you go back has double the people of the subsequent one (obviously) it doesn't take that long before your number of direct ancestors is greater than the human poulation at the time. So really, you're related to most people who were alive at a certain time, as well as the same people several times over.
  • apriltrainer
    apriltrainer Posts: 732 Member
    Brother of Hercules :)

    I definately believe that.

    I am the cousin of Athena.

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