Lets hear it, who are you related to?

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!

I'm related to Eva Braun, Hitler's girlfriend/wife. I wish it were someone who did something wonderful but, alas, that's as good as it gets for me.

me.

A bunch of gold diggers. One side of the family went to the gold rush in Alaska. Other side of the family went to strike it rich in Australia. Got some humanitarians in there too-one couple great great grandparents met in San Francisco after the big 1901 quake to do restoration work.

My mom's oncologist's nephew is Will Ferrell, that counts for something right?

IF you go way way way back and circle around i am related to Bubbles, you know the chimp that hung out with Michael Jackson