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Posted: 8/3/2005 1:06:37 PM EDT
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Zachary Taylor , my Grandma on my moms side was a Taylor.
Mary Queen of Scots, my Grandpa on my Dads side was a decendent of the Stuarts. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 1:19:56 PM EDT
[#2]
General Braxton Bragg , Confederacy ..several grandfather 's back on my mom's side of the family
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Posted: 8/3/2005 1:20:39 PM EDT
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Ha... that means that you can't hit it!!! |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 1:24:37 PM EDT
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mother was the 13th cousin to george washington, makes me the 14th, not exactly a claim to fame but hey, dont hear it every day |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 1:36:25 PM EDT
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Stephen Fuller Austin. Direct decendant.
Oh, forgot....wife is related to Rommel. Sheep |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 1:49:47 PM EDT
[#6]
Distant... Celine Dion.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 2:38:18 PM EDT
[#8]
From my fathers side,John Holmes
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Posted: 8/3/2005 2:44:42 PM EDT
[#9]
General George Patton on my mothers side.
SM |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 3:48:56 PM EDT
[#10]
On my mom's side, Zero Mostel.
On my dad's, maybe Yitzhak Shamir. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 5:49:17 PM EDT
[#11]
Lessee:
My mother is cousin to the governor of one of the British West Indies (she was born there) My wife is related by marriage to the children of Roy Rogers. I am a son of Obscurity. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 5:56:22 PM EDT
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The Italian side of the family doesn't talk about it, but Benito Mussolini was a relative.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 5:57:30 PM EDT
[#13]
Your kid should be a military genius. Get him an appointment to West Point. We need another Patton. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:04:57 PM EDT
[#14]
I know the feeling, family reunions are a hoot. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:25:54 PM EDT
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Great Great.... Uncle was Thomas Hart Benton. The father of manifest destiny. (The eventual expansion of the US territory to the Pacific Ocean)
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:27:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:29:53 PM EDT
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Damn! I typed a response earlier and now I don't see it.
 What did I do? Forget to hit submit?  Oh well. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. My maternal grandmother was born in 1898, but I'm not sure if she was his granddaughter or his sisters. But it is a old family tale and a cousin confirmed it in a college geneology course in the early '70s. But I've never found out which it is. And now grandma, my mom and her sister (the oldest child) are all gone. 
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:32:15 PM EDT
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Clyde Barrow |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:32:58 PM EDT
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Tom T. Hall of old time country/western music fame, sadly he died before I was even thought of, but my grandmother still tells stories about him in the old kentucky days.
Also Daniel Boone. I'm willing to be many of us are dddddiiiiissssstttannnntttttt cousins just from that one man. 
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:36:39 PM EDT
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I am related to one of the Younger brothers from the James-Younger gang on my fathers side, also Scottish royalty but that was long, long ago.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:38:45 PM EDT
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Great great Grandson of Baron Trombetti of Italy - who left a HUGH and highly protected monetary estate that got embroiled into A LIMBO of the RC Church, the fascist government of WWII and secret political deals.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:40:47 PM EDT
[#22]
Sam Morse, painter, inventor, etc. was a distant uncle.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:43:00 PM EDT
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General John J. Pershing is my 5th cousin.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:46:53 PM EDT
[#24]
On my mother's side:
"Ragnvald Eysteinsson, The Wise (830-890) (Old Norse: Rögnvaldr Mærajarl), Earl of Sunnmøre, Nordmøre and Romsdal, was born in Maer Nord-Trøndelag, Norway and died at the Orkney Islands. He was son of Eystein Glumra the Noisy, Earl of Oppland, and grandson of Halfdan the Old. His second wife was Ragnhild Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir (Raghldr (Hldr) Hrolfsdóttir) daughter of Hrolfr Nefjaa. Ragnvald was the father of Hrolf Ganger, the founder of Normandy. He was also the father of Turf-Einar, the ancestor of the jarls of Orkney. He was the direct ancestor to William I of England, Edward III of England, James I of England, and, therefore, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He is therefore the ancestor of most of the royal families of Europe." Yeah, and half the people living in the US and Canada My ex-wife is a second cousin to the Osmonds. We used to get invitations to their family reunions. She went once as a teenager, but her little brother got in a fistfight with Donny and Marie's little brother Jimmy. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:48:08 PM EDT
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David, Moses, and about a billion others. Once had Dick Rutan stay at our house. He was a friend of my dad. ben |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 7:54:23 PM EDT
[#26]
Andrew Jackson
Washington Irving |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 8:08:39 PM EDT
[#27]
tom jones, william wallace.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 8:23:40 PM EDT
[#28]
Not directly, but distantly related to the great Alexander H Stephens.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 8:51:17 PM EDT
[#29]
We are very distant cousins of Washington's mother's family. My great uncle twice (Dad's mom's sister) was John Wesley Howard, aide to General Grant, and of the family of John Eager Howard, of Baltimore.
My wife's family traced back to the bastard son of an Italian princess. SBK is half Southern blueblood, and half Mafia. No wonder he likes to fight.. Ops |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:26:28 PM EDT
[#30]
George S Patton.
Great Grandfathers cousin. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:44:35 PM EDT
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Only one I know of was my great great uncle Hiram NMSight who was a famous glass blower.
He finally died at work one day. Got the hiccoughs. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:49:53 PM EDT
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I heard stories growing up that I was related to Abraham Lincoln and The Carpenters [for all you young punks they were popular in the late 60's early 70's]. I don't know. I come from a long line of Irish Catholics and my family imigrated from Ireland after the Civil War. I sort of doubt either.
Long story short? People should want to be related to me, not visa versa. Patty |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:50:30 PM EDT
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I screwed Brook Burke in High school does that count?
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:55:28 PM EDT
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Yes. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:05:38 PM EDT
[#35]
Pendletons. (fathers side) I was told there was a book of decendants kept at Camp Pendleton, which my Grandmother's children were not permitted to be recorded in because she married beneath her royal line. She married an Irish railroad worker. I hear there was also a tool company they had going at one time, I have a keychain that was my uncles, somewhere. Is that famous or just snobby? Oh well.
Also, my grandmother on my mothers side was a cousin to Ronnie Milsap. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:13:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:32:50 PM EDT
[#37]
Same here, only on my paternal grandmother's side. How's it goin' cuz? Also, Orel Hershiser is my second cousin. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:36:19 PM EDT
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Distantly related to (on my Father's mother's side of the family):
Freiherr Manfred Von Richtofen (a.k.a. The Red Baron) Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:46:10 PM EDT
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I've got a senator and other politicians. Also, police chiefs and other member of the government including local, state, and federal judges. Oh, and numerous major car dealerships as well as investment bankers. I'm prety much covered if I get into any kinf of deep shit.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:11:07 AM EDT
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George Washington. It was a "thing" in my family until a few generations ago, to name the first male child, George Washington [Surname.] My best friend and I learned last year (from an exhaustively researched book a cousin wrote) that we have a common ancestor--G. W. [Surname.]
Anne Boleyn. My family used to own almost the entire island of Barbados. This distant relative--a grand parent--became exceptionally wealthy in the rum business. This relative also regained a Title after very successfully conducting counter-piracy for the English Crown. Previously, the Title was stripped when his father was banished from the colonies in the late 17th century. I forget how much land in Virginia was granted to him--some fantastic amount. He was Sir Thomas [Surname.] There are more still-famous people, and even more forgotten ones. Everyone has such a past, but most don't know it. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:20:10 AM EDT
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Oh yeah, my brother-in-law's brother draws comic books. I know he drew X-Men for a while. Not sure if he's still doing that or working on other stuff right now.
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