Lets hear it, who are you related to?
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My sister told me once that my (idk how many greats) grandfather married a Blackfoot Indian princess.
Whether that's true or not, I dunno. We were young when she told me this >.>0 -
My dad's cousin wrote a book tracing her side of the family back to the 1500's and in it I found out Betty Grable was a distant cousin of mine0
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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:
Hi cousin :happy: My gran's mother or grandmother always insisted she was descended from Anne Boleyn, according to my gran.
Anne Boleyn had one child, Elizabeth I, and she had no children.
related then, perhaps not a direct decendent. I'm quoting what my gran said years ago (and she said it like she didn't really believe it to be true), maybe she said related not descended (my gran knows enough British history not to make that mistake, unlike me!). Anyway it's not that important seeing as a) I don't really care if I'm related to her or not, I just mentioned it cause it's the theme of the thread and b) if you go back far enough everyone's related to everyone else.0 -
Peggy Lee.0
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Wyatt Earp0
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no one famous..so unfair..lol0
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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:
Hi cousin :happy: My gran's mother or grandmother always insisted she was descended from Anne Boleyn, according to my gran.
Anne Boleyn had one child, Elizabeth I, and she had no children.
related then, perhaps not a direct decendent. I'm quoting what my gran said years ago (and she said it like she didn't really believe it to be true), maybe she said related not descended (my gran knows enough British history not to make that mistake, unlike me!). Anyway it's not that important seeing as a) I don't really care if I'm related to her or not, I just mentioned it cause it's the theme of the thread and b) if you go back far enough everyone's related to everyone else.
yes they were as far as we can tell, and you're probably right about that lol0 -
my auntie had lunch with the queen but i guess that dosen't count0
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Has anyone realized that if you trace your ancestry back far enough, you are related to essentially everyone at some point?
You have 2 parents
You have 4 grandparents
You have 8 great-grandparents
You have 16 great-great grandparents
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Assuming an average 25 years or so for each generation, there were approximately 512 people alive at the time of the American Revolution that were your direct ancestor. Go back 400 years and you had 65,536 direct ancestors. One doesn't have to be a math genius to see that eventually everyone's family tree will converge. In fact, it's a guarantee that some of your ancestors appear in more than one part of your tree. So, everyone is related to someone famous if you go back far enough.
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing
BTW I was a test tube baby, weaned in a cabbage patch by Adam and Eve.0 -
Im quite closely related to John Entwhistle, from The Who.0
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I have been told Robert E. Lee is my great x7 uncle. I am not sure exactly how though. Recently I went home and my grandfather gave me stacks of family pictures some as far back as the 1800s. In one picture he pointed out how his great grandfather was missing his arm and told me how he had been shot in the Civil War and the bullet was lodged between the two bones in his arm. Since they could not remove it, they cut the arm off just below the elbow. Later I was online and googled his name and date of birth and on Ancestry.com someone else had written his story and I found out more info about him. I was really excited to read more about the man I had a picture of and learn about his part in history.
Are there any genealogy sites you would recommend that don't charge as much as Ancestry does? I'd really like to look into the Robert E. Lee connection.0 -
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.0
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Silly family rumor I am related to Geronimo... also by marriage related to JFK.0
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My grandad says I might be related to Cecil Rhodes on his side, but I doubt that cos Cecil Rhodes wasn't Irish XD if I had it my way I'd be related to Anne Boleyn or Mary Queen of Scots. Or even Margaret Beaufort or Elizabeth Woodville.0
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well he wasn't directly famous, but my maternal great grandfather was the driver for mother cabrini.
my uncle by marriage (dad's sister) has a cousin who is related to john voight. my uncle owned a gas station that my dad worked at for years, and he would come in to get gas every now and then.0 -
I am--related--as I say to Linda Ronstadt-she is my twin.:laugh:0
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Apparently, I am related to Lucy, the Ethiopian Australopithecus afarensis hominid. :laugh:0
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Rebecca Nourse , who was killed as a witch in the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600's because her neighbors wanted her property and accused her of being a witch. (Anyone who read The Crucible in high school, will know her as a character from that book too. She was a real person ).
Also, (and this has not been confirmed) King John I from England in the 11th century.0 -
That would be super cool. Margaret Beaufort is my top choice. Or Eleanor of Aquitaine.0
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Stonewall Jackson0
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