Lets hear it, who are you related to?

I'm related to Adam and Eve.

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.

Also related, on my dad's side, to the pilot of the British Airways Boeing that crash landed at Heathrow in 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8505163.stm

My aunt and uncle were famous painters. Jack Levine and Ruth Gikow. Google them to see their work.

Shumacher- on my mom's side

I'm related to the family that started L.L. Bean.

I'm also legitimately related to Hilter's family, though I think it's pretty distantly.

Barrack Obama.

We must be cousins or something ^__^

My uncles step mother is Robert Pattinsons grandmother!

On my birth father's side I'm descended from King Olof Skötkonung of Sweden, Yaroslav the Wise - Grand Prince of Rus, and Anne of Kiev and King Henri I of France. I always told my mother I was a princess. :laugh:

It still counts even if it was 1000 years ago, right? Thank you ancestry.com for validating my existence and wasting countless hours of my time.

My great great grandad was one of the first all blacks

Rex Harrison was my great, great uncle! Not a massive claim to fame because unless you mention audry hepburn no one seems to know who he was, that and he was a horrid specimin of a human being

Billy Connolly......just!

Funniest man on the planet.

Just my personal experience if anyone is using or thinking of using Ancestry.com

The problem with the site is that the trees are member submitted which means there is no fact checking. Inevitably mistakes get copied and recopied from one tree to another and it's impossible to know the truth. In fairness Ancestry encourages the dismissal of facts because the instant family tree thing is so appealing to most people. Now royal pedigrees to tend to be accurate but the confusion happens because so many had the same names or similar names and enter the wrong one and it self propagates the remaining tree with errors.

I do still volunteer on the site because it does provide access to records but I always tell people get the hard copy of the record and verify every date if they are truly serious about being historically accurate for future descendants.

Otherwise it should be seen as a novelty.

Just my personal experience if anyone is using or thinking of using Ancestry.com

The problem with the site is that the trees are member submitted which means there is no fact checking. Inevitably mistakes get copied and recopied from one tree to another and it's impossible to know the truth. In fairness Ancestry encourages the dismissal of facts because the instant family tree thing is so appealing to most people. Now royal pedigrees to tend to be accurate but the confusion happens because so many had the same names or similar names and enter the wrong one and it self propagates the remaining tree with errors.

I do still volunteer on the site because it does provide access to records but I always tell people get the hard copy of the record and verify every date if they are truly serious about being historically accurate for future descendants.

Otherwise it should be seen as a novelty.

I wish you could tell my mother, my aunt, and my cousin's stupid wife this! They swear by Ancestry.com. They all claim to have disproven my research... and I started at the public library!!!! Go figure!

Lucky *kitten*. Anyone want to trade a scientist or a politician for a guy that started ww1?

I was told my family are decedents of Robert the Bruce.