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  • jubeesh
    jubeesh Posts: 156
    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 mine
  • psychopiglet
    psychopiglet Posts: 130 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:

    Hi cousin :happy: My gran's mother or grandmother always insisted she was descended from Anne Boleyn, according to my gran.
    Errr... No.

    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. :smile:
    Yeah, if your family were all based in England back then, it's highly likely you're related to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and probably the other 4 wives, too! lol
  • reallymyBEST
    reallymyBEST Posts: 242 Member
    Peggy Lee.
  • freerange
    freerange Posts: 1,722 Member
    Wyatt Earp
  • bubmaster
    bubmaster Posts: 90
    no one famous..so unfair..lol
  • dhakiyya
    dhakiyya Posts: 481 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:

    Hi cousin :happy: My gran's mother or grandmother always insisted she was descended from Anne Boleyn, according to my gran.
    Errr... No.

    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. :smile:
    Yeah, if your family were all based in England back then, it's highly likely you're related to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and probably the other 4 wives, too! lol

    yes they were as far as we can tell, and you're probably right about that lol
  • bubmaster
    bubmaster Posts: 90
    my auntie had lunch with the queen but i guess that dosen't count :(
  • Newf77
    Newf77 Posts: 802 Member
    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
    ...

    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.
  • BeckiCharlotte13x
    BeckiCharlotte13x Posts: 259 Member
    Im quite closely related to John Entwhistle, from The Who.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    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.
  • HappilyLifts
    HappilyLifts Posts: 429 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.
    Loved the Seven Alone book/movie when I was young. Still find that period of history and travel very interesting.
  • Tony_Brewski
    Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
    Silly family rumor I am related to Geronimo... also by marriage related to JFK.
  • daughterofthesea
    daughterofthesea Posts: 82 Member
    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.
  • keem88
    keem88 Posts: 1,689 Member
    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.
  • hawaii86442
    hawaii86442 Posts: 167
    I am--related--as I say to Linda Ronstadt-she is my twin.:laugh:
  • obrendao
    obrendao Posts: 318
    Apparently, I am related to Lucy, the Ethiopian Australopithecus afarensis hominid. :laugh:
  • krislee614
    krislee614 Posts: 3 Member
    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 :smile: ).

    Also, (and this has not been confirmed) King John I from England in the 11th century.
  • krislee614
    krislee614 Posts: 3 Member
    That would be super cool. Margaret Beaufort is my top choice. Or Eleanor of Aquitaine.
  • brandimacleod
    brandimacleod Posts: 368 Member
    Stonewall Jackson
  • Meghan4330
    Meghan4330 Posts: 19 Member
    I'm related to Madonna and without trying to prove anything she showed up as my Doppleganger 3 times with 95% accuracy!
  • AmyFett
    AmyFett Posts: 1,607 Member
    My momma. She's famous! She made the front page of the newspaper once! =) lol

    lol! you always crack me up
  • CallyBeth08
    CallyBeth08 Posts: 50 Member
    I'm adopted so I don't really count it but my mom says she tracked back to Andrew jackson. Apparently that's a massive deal.

    Same here. My moms fathers side, dates back to Andrew Jackson. He was a first cousin to one of my great (X?) grand fathers... Thats the only famous person I am related too, Im told. My mom was able to track my family all the way back to the mid 1400's.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    Silly family rumor I am related to Geronimo... also by marriage related to JFK.

    My kids are related to Geronimo also through their father.
  • strongnotskinny121
    strongnotskinny121 Posts: 329 Member
    I KNOW I am related to Ulysses S. Grant. He married a great-great-great-great aunt. His son bears her maiden name.
  • HappilyLifts
    HappilyLifts Posts: 429 Member
    My mum and dad are really into this ancestry thing but I have never had time for it until I started reading this interesting thread. I decided to text her and this is what she has told me:
    On my mum's side she has gone back to 1140. I am related to Sir William Espileman, Lord of Brokenhurst, Hampshire, UK and more recently to Sir Henry Spelman of Norfolk, UK. The Spelmans were knights who fought in the 4th crusade and were then rich merchants in the 14th and 15th century and then ropemakers in the 16th to 17th century. That's where the wealth ended :smile:

    We are also related to Sir John Spelman, a judge who was involved in Anne Boleyn's trial.

    Mum also says we are related to a poet who is buried in Westminster Abbey and a historian who wrote about Alfred the Great and a high judge. I guess that makes me, a mum, homemaker and part time tutor a bit of a let down :laugh:
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
    Seems like everyone I know swears they are related to someone famous in history. I know people who think they are related to the Queen of England, Adolph Hitler, Jessie James(the outlaw) etc...

    So, who do you THINK you are related to as it pertains to famous people in history?
    Well it would be nigh on impossible to be related to the Queen of England as she died childless in 1603 and the English Monarchy was more or less replaced by the Scottish Monarchy (when King James VI of Scotland became James I of England) although it was a further 104 years before the United Kingdom came into being on 1 May 1707.

    The bloodline after about 7 or 8 generations becomes so muddied that it's almost as if we were all related to each other... especially if you subscribe to intelligent design :wink:

    My grandfather was one of 14 children and his father before him was also one of many. Our line from my paternal great grandfather continues in Rhode Island, but those are the last males of that line. My niece has also got a son, but he's not carrying on the family name (even more so as my niece adopted her step-father's surname before she became a mother).

    I don't believe we have any really famous or celebrated relations as far as I'm aware, but our Clan does go back to the Stuarts (the Scottish Kings who subsequently became the monarchs of the UK) so it's not unrealistic to think that some of our line has royal linage.

    On my maternal side, my grandfather is unknown, so I could be related to somebody famous in more recent times and not know it! :bigsmile: :laugh:
  • HappilyLifts
    HappilyLifts Posts: 429 Member
    My mum and dad are really into this ancestry thing but I have never had time for it until I started reading this interesting thread. I decided to text her and this is what she has told me:
    On my mum's side she has gone back to 1140. I am related to Sir William Espileman, Lord of Brokenhurst, Hampshire, UK and more recently to Sir Henry Spelman of Norfolk, UK. The Spelmans were knights who fought in the 4th crusade and were then rich merchants in the 14th and 15th century and then ropemakers in the 16th to 17th century. That's where the wealth ended :smile:

    We are also related to Sir John Spelman, a judge who was involved in Anne Boleyn's trial.

    Mum also says we are related to a poet who is buried in Westminster Abbey and a historian who wrote about Alfred the Great and a high judge. I guess that makes me, a mum, homemaker and part time tutor a bit of a let down :laugh:

    She has just sent another text to say there are Spelmans in the US who married into the Rockerfeller family.
  • korsicash
    korsicash Posts: 770 Member
    Based on my families tartan colors and various sources King David the first of Scotland is supposedly a great great etc etc grandfather. Hemmingway's old man in the sea was supposedly about a great great uncle. On my mother's side of the family based on family tree Winston Churchill and Franklin Pierce.
  • Biggy5890
    Biggy5890 Posts: 9 Member
    Pocohontas. Uncanny resemblance.
  • rachelbethany
    rachelbethany Posts: 211 Member
    No one cool. Houston Nutt, former coach of Arizona's football team or something. lol. (I'm a Nutt, too.)

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