Lets hear it, who are you related to?
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I'm related to Madonna and without trying to prove anything she showed up as my Doppleganger 3 times with 95% accuracy!0
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My momma. She's famous! She made the front page of the newspaper once! lol
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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.0 -
Silly family rumor I am related to Geronimo... also by marriage related to JFK.
My kids are related to Geronimo also through their father.0 -
I KNOW I am related to Ulysses S. Grant. He married a great-great-great-great aunt. His son bears her maiden name.0
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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
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:0 -
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?
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
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:0 -
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
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.0 -
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.0
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Pocohontas. Uncanny resemblance.0
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No one cool. Houston Nutt, former coach of Arizona's football team or something. lol. (I'm a Nutt, too.)0
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My Dad's cousin is a bit of celebrity in Canada - he's Paul Henderson who scored the winning goal against the USSR in the 1972 ice hockey Summit Series.0
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The well researched genealogy on my paternal side lists Priscilla Mullins (a Mayflower passenger), John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Dan Quayle.0
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Great, great, great ( and maybe one more great).. uncle Zebulon Pike (explorer who found Pike's Peak....was it lost?) on my father's mother's side and Stonewall Jackson (shot while drunk by own sentry??? ) on my mother's mother's side.... and lots of other miscreants hahahah...0
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Stonewall Jackson0
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Oh I forgot....I am related to Brandi ....and thus she is related to Zebulon Pike too!!! LOL0
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Hubby is related to Lucas Black, Alvin York (The one the movie Sgt York was based from) and Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter). There's no one famous in my family.0
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Bing Crosby.0
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I'm a Smith so I know there's got to be someone famous I'm related to but tracking it on the other hand is a different story.0
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My geneology tree on my mothers side has been traced to Madonna, and my great uncle worked at the prison in New York (Sing Sing, I think) that held the Rosenburgs (russian spies)ad he was the one who "pulled the switch" when they were put to death...0
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