Lets hear it, who are you related to?

Sir William Alexander, First Earl of Sterling.

on a side note:
My mom was pissed when I started wearing a kilt, said I wasn't even of Scottish decent. Then one day, I found a link of DAR, and it filled in a hole, and them bam bam bam bam suddenly I had the lineage all the way back.

My family was on this side of the pond early, and my gggg lost count grandfather got his land around here from Jackson after the war. And aside from a jaunt up to Michigan (in two different generations!) we've been here ever since.

Also, there is a road named for my great uncle, and my son thinks its funny when we go past Alexander dr.

Colomb is the Americanize English spelling of Columbus so there is a pretty good chance we are related. Nephews traced the family back into France 1800's so far.

I've been told I'm (distantly) related to Justin Timberlake...

Some guy who plays Hockey in the NHL - he used to play for the Panthers now I have no idea where he plays lol I don't know his name because i don't talk to that side of the family... apparently his mom is my dad's cousin or something. It was never anything I really cared about honestly.


Oh and the Kesslers whom do the "Kessler Bull's" for Rodeos - don't know if they are really famous.. but it is what it is.

My Grandfather on my mothers side is Meadowlark Lemon. World famous Harlem Globetrotter

On my Father's side, the famous Mrs O'Leary who was infamously credited for starting the Great Chicago Fire. (Figures since I am a natural clutz, LOL) Also, apparently cousin to Minnie Pearl of Hee Haw fame.

On my Mom's side not sure but definitely Mafia ties way back. Ma's family is well know in Chicago and her Dad was a close friend of Al Capone and hid him alot of times from the cops.

And people wonder why I am such a Chicago chick.

General Custar was a brother to my GGGrandmother.

But I would rather be related to Einstein! LOL

William Butler Yeats

The Wilson brothers from the Beach Boys

Welll.... my cousin Darcy was a Toronto Maple Leaf for a few years... (pro-hockey player). We're not close though... to tell the truth, he's kind of an @ss.

lot's of Andrew Jackson relatives here, weird.
I have found that at least one of my ancestors fought in the Eastern band of Cherokees for the Confederacy.
And Fred Thompson (senator and actor) is supposedly a very distant relative.

from what i see in the family tree that was done on my moms side of the family.....we are very distant cousins to Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

We actually have a really cool genealogy book that traces wayyy back on my mother's side. I have a few proven ones and a few that are possible, but not proven.
Proven...
Joseph Myrick (better known as The Elephant Man. I'm a direct descendant)
Victoria Principal (Dallas. Her mother's maiden name was Veal, and she married into the Stapleton's. Stapleton is my mother's maiden name.)
Paul Rose (founder of Rose's Department Store)
John Gorrie (considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning)
Lady Bird Johnson
There are some others I can't think of off the top of my head.

Possible:
Thomas Edison
George Bush
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Robert E. Lee
Sarah Palin
Harry Truman
Brad Pitt
**** Cheney
James Madison

So yeah... all of these were in the book, just some have been proven and others haven't.

My father's family and the white side of Prez Obama have the same last name and are from the same part Ireland. I haven't found a direct link, but I think that is kind of cool.

I have been doing genealogy for over 30 years, and have spent more hours on Ancestry.com than I have on MFP! Dad's roots go back to colonial America, including Mayflower passengers William Brewster, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Stephen Hopkins and Thomas Rogers. My ancestors went from England to Plymouth to Cape Cod (mostly Eastham and Chatham) and then, about 10 years before the Revolutionary War, to Barrington Nova Scotia Canada. My grandfather was born in Barrington in 1890. Four towns in 263 years. You can bet that many of these people married distant cousins!

More interesting: Not only have I been researching my own family, I have also done some research of other people important in my life. I've been surprised to find how many of them are related! My first husband, a long-time (10+years) boyfriend, and my last (current!) husband are all my 7th cousins ... all with multiple common ancestors ... and these three men are all 7th or 8th cousins to each other. My sister's husband and my best friend are also very distant relatives (with our common ties going back to the early 1600's).

Think about how few people there were in the early years of America. Then consider Ralph Smith of Hingham and Eastham MA, one of my ancestors, who, about 25 years ago had an estimated 2 million living descendants. If you have an English surname in your family tree, there is a good chance that you, too, can trace your roots back to English royalty or colonial America. And, it's much easier now than it was back when I started!