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I found out today that i am related to Robert E. Lee (great-great-great-great uncle by marriage) and George Washington ( 6 greats uncle by marriage) and Robert the Bruce, former King of Scotland. Are you related to anyone famous?

I AM famous :rolleyes:

I found out today that i am related to Robert E. Lee (great-great-great-great uncle by marriage) and George Washington ( 6 greats uncle by marriage) and Robert the Bruce, former King of Scotland. Are you related to anyone famous?

I'm related to a famous Scot as well (in America, anyway). Allan Pinkerton, one of the instrumental tacticians of the Civil War, and founder of the Pinkerton Security Agency, (in)famous for the Homestead Strike incident.

I'm also related to Clint Eastwood (he's technically a cousin), which is pretty cool.

Go back far enough and you'll probably find a famous person in most family trees.

Apparently something like 1 in every 200 people alive today is related to Gengis Khan.

Not me though - my uncle researched my family tree and on my fathers side it's nothing but Scottish labourers, along with a few blacksmiths.

I am related to Charles Darwin, Vaughan Williams, and Josiah Wedgwood. Not sure on the exact link, but Wedgwood is closer than either of the other two.

... me.

or any of my quirky friends who are the type of people who anyone could see in the stars someday. :D

My aunt (http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Vazirani+Reetika)
Her Tradgedy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A30475-2004Feb10&notFound=true)
My aunt's husband (http://www.nathanielturner.com/biosketchesyusefkomunyakaa.htm)
My Step-Grandfather (http://www.bavf.org/sgtshaftbio.htm)
I'd get a link to my grandmother but I can't find a proper link.

I've been told that I'm somehow related to Sir Robert the Bruce.

I am directly related (cousin) to the former drummer/songwriter of Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Jerry Allison. Never met the guy.

I have a cousin who played in the band Paul Revere and the Raiders and was the lead guitar for Sonny and Cher and then later, just for Cher. I'm sure you've heard of him, Keith Allison.

Keith's wife Judith was the head writer for one of the greatest TV shows EVER-"Blossom".

I'm related to someone you may have heard of, Satan.

I'm related to someone you may have heard of, Satan.

*kicks you with a steel toed boot for lack of wit and originality*

My cousin's grandfather (on their mother's side) was a Nobel award winning chemist. I forget who though.

My dad reckons we're related to Rob Roy MacGregor, though if everybody who claimed to be related to him actually was... well, lets just say he wouldn't have had much time for any marauding.

Not that I know of.

*kicks you with a steel toed boot for lack of wit and originality*
I bet I can top that.

I'm related to your mum - In bed!

Wait a minute...

I bet I can top that.

I'm related to your mum - In bed!

Wait a minute...

*gunshot*

I have a friend that's related to Winston Churchill, George W. Bush and Prince William...

I should be realated to Chuck Norris. That would rock.

I should be realated to Chuck Norris. That would rock.

Clint Eastwood > Chuck Norris.

Cool and calculating beats blunt asskickery.

But I can say my grandfathers uncle arrested ghandi.

I found out today that i am related to Robert E. Lee (great-great-great-great uncle by marriage) and George Washington ( 6 greats uncle by marriage) and Robert the Bruce, former King of Scotland. Are you related to anyone famous?

Apparently, you and I are related. I am related to Lee by marriage as well and am a descendant of Washington's brother.

Cool.

I'm related to Dr. Bill Cullen
I heard (the real) Bill Cullen on Ray D’arcy’s show yesterday. He’s very funny but wow, what energy! Ray said he had to lie down and rest after talking to him! At the ages of 63 he wants to be the first Irishman into space and has already paid a deposit on his ticket. I heard he hopes to raise at least 1 million Euro for charity by doing this!

No are you?

My mom's a local celebrity of sorts, but nothing else.

No are you?
Yes I am, I think he married my mother's aunt. Making him my great-uncle.
Woo!

hehe, looking at it, i might be related to Abraham Lincoln, if you go back to the 1600s...

Yes I am, I think he married my mother's aunt. Making him my great-uncle.
Woo!
lucky you

No, though my grandfather used to be a fairly major politician in my local county, if that counts.

Well, more recently, there's been this blight upon the American culture we all knew (and some loved) as....Hanson. Yeah, the Mmmbop kids. Some sort of distant-ish cousins, HOPEFULLY several times removed....I've never even met them, so no threat that I'll ever have to, God willing.

But more importantly, I've got John Hanson, who's technically the first President of America (first man to serve a full term as President of the Continental Congress....semantics go a long way in this world). Then on my dad's side, I've got the McCarty line (who founded lots of small towns in my area and was one of the two founding families of Conception Abbey), and Sgt. Pleasant Fountain (strange name) who's got several pieces of equipment and weaponry on display at Fort Scott, KS.

Nobody terribly major, unless you're a history fan. Or if you really like little boys with high voices.

Sir Francis Drake, and he's my favorite pirate (privateer if you're english), due to the fact he was highly merciful (for a pi-privateer.) I am also related to a signer of the declaration of independence.

My Cousin (Nanea Miyata).

as for ancestors, dunno really. My grandfather did mention that my Grandmother was related to royalty in Japan (Minor Lord).

I am supposedly related to the founder of some form a Hasidim who descended from someone who claims descent from King David. :) We can't seem to verify it though. Not many records.

Er...ancestors include a few Dukes of Normandy, 5 or 6 Kings of England (until Edward I), a few Earls of various places, a Lord Chancellor, and a few other things like that.

Er...ancestors include a few Dukes of Normandy, 5 or 6 Kings of England (until Edward I), a few Earls of various places, a Lord Chancellor, and a few other things like that.
Toff. ;)

philosopher david hume

Toff. ;)
Aye, right.

My cousin Jay is Equipment Manager for the Houston Texans. Before the Texans he was Equipment Manager of the Redskins for about 10-15 years.

I am related to Sir William Wallace. He is my great great (don't know how many greats) uncle. His mother was Margarette Crawford, my (don't know how many greats) grandmother.

Supposedly I'm related to Howard Hughes, a member of the Jesse James gang, and a signer of the Constitution.

Looking at my current relatives and their behavior, I can kind of believe the Howard Hughes and Jesse James story, but the Constitution story I need to take with a tub of salt.

Thomas Edison (distant cousin), Lillian Nordica (Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-soprano years and years and years ago - distant cousin), Adam, Eve.

My aunt is a celebrity in New Zealand, so that should count for something, but knowing my family, I doubt any of my ancestors were famous.

I've been told that I'm somehow related to Sir Robert the Bruce.
I am too, I belive, though wouldn't you say he's more INfamous?

I'm related to Spartacus

No, wait, I am Spartacus

Angus McDonald. Grandfather 7 generations back. He was a friend and Neighboor of George Washington. He is rumored to have been at the battle of Culloden and came to the colonies afterwards. He started a Mason lodge in Virgina, commanded forces in Lord Dunmores War. Being a stubbern Scot he actually refused a commision for GW because it would have placed him under somebody he thought did not belong in command(he was replaced) and GW and the Gov tried several times to talk him into it.

A cousin is Angus McDonald III. He started the 7th Virginia Cavalry and was on staff to Jefferson Davis.

There is a person in the line that would link us to the Kings of England and France but we can't prove or disprove the person's relation.

Supposedly one of the Signers of the DOI but nobody has tracked the line. The person who knew this stuff of course didn't write anything down and died. :(

My Cousin (Nanea Miyata).

as for ancestors, dunno really. My grandfather did mention that my Grandmother was related to royalty in Japan (Minor Lord).
Link doesn't work for me.

I found out today that i am related to Robert E. Lee (great-great-great-great uncle by marriage) and George Washington ( 6 greats uncle by marriage) and Robert the Bruce, former King of Scotland. Are you related to anyone famous?
Yup, or so I've been told: Admiral Horn of Swedish Navy fame, and ... R.E. Lee of VA ( remotely, but then many Southerners claim that so it's open to question ). :)

I am distantly related to Franz Gruber, the man who wrote Silent Night, and Max Schmeling, a boxer

I'm related to Spartacus

No, wait, I am Spartacus

I'm Spartacus!

I am too, I belive, though wouldn't you say he's more INfamous?

Well maybe to England. ;)

Direct descendant of Ponce de Leon, and somehow related to Francisco France (not something I'm proud of.)

Jimmy Page

I'm the great-great-great nephew of Sir Richard Burton (led the expedition that "discovered" the source of the Nile)

I am a distant niece of the guy who invented the machine that puts the jelly in jelly donuts. Does that count?

I am a distant niece of the guy who invented the machine that puts the jelly in jelly donuts. Does that count?

Sure does

I'm Spartacus!

No, I'm Spartacus!

Michael Landon (the Little House on the Prarie guy) is my second cousin, and Alfred Landon (ran for president, lost to FDR) is my great, great uncle.

Not yet, but I will be when I impregnate Lucy Liu.

I am a distant niece of the guy who invented the machine that puts the jelly in jelly donuts. Does that count?

I think that puts you on the list for Sainthood.

Well, being a Jew I am related to a lot of people. Einstein, Stephen Spielberg, Wesley Clark (he was born Jewish), along with the guy who killed Rabin.

Being of Arab blood I am a distant relative of Mohammed, all the great Arab astronomers, and a (hopefully VERY distant) relative of Osama bin Laden.

Actual provable family link?

Unless you are in the biotech industry (I have a couple relatives there), then nobody famous.

But watch for me in a decade or two.

Not really, I've got a cousin who killed his wife, son, and then himself, which got him some level of local fame. My family tree has plenty of murderers, thieves, and suicide cases, but not much in the way of publicity.

Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

I'm related to a retired famous NBA player. I have no idea who. A distant cousin or something of the sort.... Argh.

No, not really.

Aparently someone from the mother's side of my family fought in the Battle of Vienna against the Turks and was quite famous then, but apparently refused to get a full title with land and everything (I could have a "von" in my name! :mad: ).
But I've never been able to confirm that.

i myself am famous YEAH WOO HOO :fluffle: :mp5:

I'm related to Edmund Fitzgerald. As in the Shipwreck thing. And the decendant of some centuries-dead German noble or something.

Yea, I'm boring.

I'm Related To The (Former?) Royal Family Of Finland! AAAANNNNDDDD, King Henry VIII! AAAANNNNDDDD, Catherine The Great. It's A Bunch Of Greats, Second Cousing, Eight Times Removed And The Such.

I'm told that I am related to John Caldwell Calhoun and Oliver Cromwell, but I'm not sure how I am related to either one. I do know that my family had a lot of land in Ireland given to us by Cromwell which was taken away after Cromwell lost power. D'oh!

Not that I know of.
Well, my sister's an author, so when she becomes really famous I'll come back and let you know.

My aunt (http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Vazirani+Reetika)
Her Tradgedy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A30475-2004Feb10&notFound=true)
God, that's terrible. :(

no, not anyone famous but apparently we're way down the line on heirs to the norwegian throne. family on my mum's side were rich aristocrats before the war... and farmhands after. there was some kind of ring/seal thingy but it got lost in said war.
thats gotta count for something, maybe

there was some kind of ring/seal thingy but it got lost in said war.
:eek: Did it get lost in someone's pocketses?

Also: I'm back! It fixed itself not 2 seconds after sending an email off to jolt :rolleyes: . Costing me any credibility I might have had with them...

:eek: Did it get lost in someone's pocketses?

Also: I'm back! It fixed itself not 2 seconds after sending an email off to jolt :rolleyes: . Costing me any credibility I might have had with them...
lmao! :p

and i just read your TG... all the while thinking 'hmm i'm sure i've seen her on the forums tonight!' ;)

No one is ever related to the village idiot or to the janitor.

No one is ever related to the village idiot or to the janitor.
Just like those people "getting in touch with their former lives" - princesses, knights, heroes, and famous sages, every last one of them.

Just once I'd like to see someone get on TV and say "Ooh, I feel it! This is it! This is the exact spot where I used to herd goats for 16 hours every day until dying of an upset stomach at the ripe old age of 34." Just once.

I am related to James Buchanan (A former U.S. President for you non-Americans and/or Undereducated Americans) and one of the Oak Ridge Boys.

Nobody

My great-great grand-aunt was Mary Elizabeth Lease.

My uncle is Abraham Lincoln. And my great-great-great-great-great grandfather's brother was one of the scribes who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Believe it or not.

No one is ever related to the village idiot or to the janitor.

Not true. It's just that there aren't very clear records on the family trees of village idiots and janitors. And even if there was, you wouldn't recognize their names and made the connection: "Sam Buttnickle. He was that moron that painted fences in Galveston Texas with his penis, wasn't he?"

Which is a real pity. Because I'm sure we all have penis artists in our family trees and they make for great stories.

This is a bit of a stretch, but my step aunt's grandfather was Bugsy Siegel.

Jimmy PageLucky bastard! Have you met him?

Unless you are in the biotech industry (I have a couple relatives there), then nobody famous.My dad is pretty famous in biotech...

Anyways, John Hancock, John Adams, John Quicy Adams, Sam Adams, and my great (7x) grandfather is Samuel Stewart, who was at the Decleration of Independance meetings.

No one is ever related to the village idiot or to the janitor.


I am the village idiot and the janitor of NS General!

-also-

In my case I have the geneology paper work to prove the links. So there! :p

I have to say, I have no idea who half these 'famous' people are.

Thomas Edison (distant cousin), Lillian Nordica (Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-soprano years and years and years ago - distant cousin), Adam, Eve.

I hope you are aware that Adam not Eve existed and every religion that professes the existence of a deity or afterlife, soul or reincarnation is dead wrong right? So therefore you are a horrible liar.

As for who I'm related to, I have no idea.

I am the village idiot and the janitor of NS General!

-also-

In my case I have the geneology paper work to prove the links. So there! :p

Have you ever painted a fence with your penis?

Oh aye, my granddad was a man called John Dundee, who developed intravenous anaethetics, alot of anaesthetic theory and method, and loads of the equipment that keeps you alive while you're under an an aesthetic. And apparently one of the first western doctors invited into Communist China.
Basically, if you don't die because of your anaesthetic then you owe something to him.

Not really hugely famous, but it's something to be mildly proud of.

I hope you are aware that Adam not Eve existed and every religion that professes the existence of a deity or afterlife, soul or reincarnation is dead wrong right? So therefore you are a horrible liar.

As for who I'm related to, I have no idea.

Yep, I'm a liar. This is just a commentary on the poll. We're all related anyway. You've heard of the mitochondrial Eve, haven't you.

Just happened to come across your link so i guess i could share some info on my relation.

On my farthers side im related to an old general from a country in sothern europe wich infact was my great great great granfather and from my mothers side i am also realted to a great great great uncle wich he to was a major statergist in a souther european country, so i guess me becoming a volunteer at the age of 14 in the armed forces was only natural...

No one is ever related to the village idiot or to the janitor.

Before the Union of Scotland and England, when the borders were still the outer marches, and governed by the warden system, my ancestors spent most of their time stealing. (Purportedly from the Scots, but more often than not from the English as well). So I am related to a bunch of petty career criminals. And not very good ones at that.

It's really about as close to village idiot as you can get.

Interestingly enough, I share this distinction with Richard M. Nixon.

My family escaped execution in france during the renaissance (we were nobles)

I have the dubious distinciton of being related to Thomas Johnathan "Stonewall" Jackson. I'm not proud of it, and frankly am quite glad that he was shot in the back by his own men.

Anyone got any proven-good genealogy sites?
( I've looked around but most suck/lack details/want payment/<-lame )

I have the dubious distinciton of being related to Thomas Johnathan "Stonewall" Jackson. I'm not proud of it, and frankly am quite glad that he was shot in the back by his own men.

Uh..? I vaguely remember the name but I'm fairly sure he was a good general?

I have the dubious distinciton of being related to Thomas Johnathan "Stonewall" Jackson. I'm not proud of it, and frankly am quite glad that he was shot in the back by his own men.

Out of curiosity why?

Anyone got any proven-good genealogy sites?
( I've looked around but most suck/lack details/want payment/<-lame )



Uh..? I vaguely remember the name but I'm fairly sure he was a good general?

The Mormans actually have a very large database......

Anyone got any proven-good genealogy sites?
( I've looked around but most suck/lack details/want payment/<-lame )

www.familysearch.org is free and is pretty good.

Thanks! :)
So far, no one famous.

I think the best relative listed so far was Harper Lee. I wish I was related to a famous author.

Alas, I am related to German, Scottish, Irish, and Hungarian immigrants. As far as I know, once my ancestors got to the US they did average things. If I have famous pre-immigration relatives, I wouldn't know it. I have a rich uncle though?

All I've found is Civil War/Revolutionary war soldiers, no one famous. Back to Middle-Ages I'am fairly sure I had a relative from/related to one of the royal familys...:confused:

I think the best relative listed so far was Harper Lee. I wish I was related to a famous author.

I want to laugh, but I'm scared you might be serious

My ancestor is a man by the name of Garcilaso de la Vega. He was a Spanish poet and soldier. He is considered one of the greatest Spanish writers ever. He also has an interesting military career. Back when the Ottoman Empire was at it's height and scratching at the walls of Vienna, Garcilaso was sent there by the order of Charles V (Holy Roman Emporer at the time) to help defend the city. He was injured in the battle of Tunisia and for his service was Knighted into the Order of Santiago. After the war, Garcilaso soon pissed off Charles V though when he tried to marry his nephew to one of the Empresses' maids of honor. He was imprisoned on an island on the Danube for many months until he was released. Eventually, Charles V forgave Garcilaso. And Garcilaso went to France to fight one more fight for Charles V. A war erupted there because the King of France decided to ally himself with the Ottoman empire. Garcilaso was killed in battle during a tower siege when an enemy rock fell on his head.