Lets hear it, who are you related to?

The most notable thing I remember in scanning through the family genealogies that my Grandmother and Grammie had is that some ancestor or other was at Yorktown with Cornwallis at the final surrender of the Revolutionary War. Got a ton of "six degrees of separations" but no real known famous blood connections on my side. On my husband's side however, his Grandma was a Morrow and a cousin of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and my mother in law claims that they're related to Robert Burns, the poet. Don't know how verifiable that is but whatever. Not terribly life changing one way or the other. In the end, if you could really trace it far enough back every who ever lived is at least distantly related.

My great-great-great-great-grandfather William Butler was present at the surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington in 1781. He was a young soldier of about 19 to 20 years of age. I found out his involvement on his pension request for his service in the American Revolution online.

I'm a Mayflower descendent and I'm related to Calvin Coolidge, both on my dad's side.

Mom's side - Princess Di

Dad's side - Engineer on the Golden Gate bridge and engineer on the panama canal.

My husband is related to Sir Francis Drake and his Great uncle was killed in the St. Valenties day massacres(this one got me a good deal on a car).

Cecil B DeMille-Grandmothers second cousin.

My German great-grandfather used to say he was a 5th cousin to Otto von Bismarck, the first leader of a unified Germany. Checking out Otto's mother's side, it turned out her family came from the same locality of Germany that my great-grandfather came from and had the same surname. My great-grandfather very likely knew the exact connection in order to make such a specific relationship claim, but I need to do research to find this link.

I'm also a 6th cousin once removed to President Lyndon B. Johnson through common ancestry of a Swiss family who came over to America in 1749. This is verified.

If other people's research is correct, then I"m also distantly related to the British royal family, too, with ancestry going back to William the Conqueror, Charlemagne and many others.

I'm also descended from an American Revolution War soldier, a great-great-great-great-grandfather William Butler, who was present at the surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington at Yorktown in 1781. He related this as part of his soldier service on his pension request for his miltiary service when he was an old man.

I also am a distant cousin to the Stark family who founded the Stark Brothers Nursery, at which my great-grandfather's 3rd cousins first introduced the Red Delicious and Golden Delicious apples to the world. The common ancestry was via the Jacoby family. A fourth cousin twice removed, Lloyd B. Stark, was governor of Missouri, serving 1936-1940, and was once considered for Vice President to President Franklin Roosevelt for the 1940 elections. Governor Stark said he was not interested.

Most of Sweden, Italy and Israel. Lots of famous people in all of those places. So those peeps.

Im a direct decendent of the Mccoys (Hatfield & Mccoys).

Ha! My Grandmother is a direct decedent of the Hatfields...( Does this mean we have to have a dual now?)

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:

Doesn't everyones?

BTW, I'm King George and so is my son!

On my Dad's side, I am related to Princess Diana and on my Mum's side, i'm related to John Lennon

So cool!!!!

I love John Lennon!!!!

Best I can do is that my husband is related to Pocahontas and John Wilkes Booth.

I'm related to one of the founders of Chicago, John Kinzie, he's got a wikipedia page and everything. And, I'm related to Juliette Gordon Low aka "Daisy", the founder of the Girl Scouts, through my mom's side. She was born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon, which is proof enough for me since that spelling of "Kinzie" is rare and sort of confined to my family and a street in Chicago named after John Kinzie I think.

As far as I know, this is all pretty well documented.

Davy Crockett,& Oliver Cromwell Both through my mother's side.

On my mom's side I'm related to Alexander Hamilton and The Roosevelt's. I remember when I was little, my grandmother had an invitation to a party at the White House that was for Alice Roosevelt.
My grandmother also had the family tree's hanging on the wall as well, that way she could show everyone how we were related to them.

I'm adopted. I could be related to ANYONE.

I know anything about my father including his last name until I was an adult. Given my twisted sense of humor, if I still didn't know anything about him, I think I would have created a family tree composed of my hero's (ie Wu Zetian, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Boadicea, Jane Adams, Margaret Sanger) and adopt them all as my relatives on my paternal side! My husband had an elderly, single, very independent female relative who family rumor claimed earned her money as a 'madam', who I would also love to be able to 'claim' as a blood relative.