Any Famous Distant Relatives...?

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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:32:46 AM EDT

Growing up I had a Grandmother who was very into geneology.

I am related (distantly and without direct decendency) to Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett & Meriwether Lewis. Obviously so are 1,000s of people.

But it was cool to know when I was growing up. Made me appreciate guys like Boone as a kid.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:34:14 AM EDT

[#1]

Yuri Andropov

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:35:46 AM EDT

[#2]

General Emory Upton. Not that famous, though.

We're also related to George Washington, and a couple people in the first Jamestown colony.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:35:46 AM EDT

[#3]

Not to my knowledge.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:37:52 AM EDT

[#4]

One of my Great Great .... Grandfathers.

Was McHenry, of Fort McHenry fame.

Kind of cool.

My aunt was into geneaology and she traced one line all the way back to the settlements. coming over on the first boats, plymouth rock and all that.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:38:34 AM EDT

[#5]

Aethelred the Unread, King of England, and his predicessors. I took a class on early medival history and we studied Alfred the Great (another English King a couple generations prior to Aethelred). I told the prof. that I would take any criticism of Alfred personally as he was family.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:40:44 AM EDT

[#6]

Clay Aiken. Distant enough there's no family resemblance.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:42:10 AM EDT

[#7]

Bart Roberts. And, just possibly Billy Bonney, on my paternal grandmother's side.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:42:57 AM EDT

[#8]

Czar Alexander III, on my grandmothers side. The family (that was related) fled to Czechoslovakia after WWI, and then the USA pre WW2.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:43:30 AM EDT

[#9]

My Uncle, Admiral Roy L. Johnson

U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander
30 March 1965 - 30 November 1967

And

First commanding officer of the USS Forrestal

He was also a Navy pilot during WW2, USS Enterprise I think ...

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:45:09 AM EDT

[#10]

George Armstrong Custer and Marlon Brando.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:47:19 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Clay Aiken. Distant enough there's no family resemblance.

That took courage to admit!

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:48:48 AM EDT

[#12]

my great uncle was one of the characters on "leave it to beaver", forgot which one.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:49:49 AM EDT

[#13]

Chuck Yaeger.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:50:50 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Chuck Yaeger.

And you joined the Navy?

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:51:03 AM EDT

[#15]

Woodrow Wilson ,on my mothers side.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:53:57 AM EDT

[#16]

Caesar Nero.

His blood line of other relatives survived (such as cousins, aunts, and uncles) had his name in theirs (Most Latin, then later Italian names had up to 10 names showing blood line). Well, sometime when the unifacation of the Italian Republic, they added a letter and dropped a few surnames, and when my family came in rhe 1890's, he still had the altered Nero name, still being easily tracked to the Caesar.

I learned the fine details when I was in Italy 2 years ago.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:55:53 AM EDT

[#17]

General Phillip Sheridan was my great great great grandfather on my mothers side. Also, dont know bout famous but Marla Maples is my cousin, never met her tho.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:59:00 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Chuck Yaeger.

And you joined the Navy?

Damn right.

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:00:38 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Growing up I had a Grandmother who was very into geneology.

I am related (distantly and without direct decendency) to Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett & Meriwether Lewis. Obviously so are 1,000s of people.

But it was cool to know when I was growing up. Made me appreciate guys like Boone as a kid.

This is really scary...I am related to Daniel Boone too!

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:04:10 AM EDT

[#20]

General John Morgan

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:14:29 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Growing up I had a Grandmother who was very into geneology.

I am related (distantly and without direct decendency) to Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett & Meriwether Lewis. Obviously so are 1,000s of people.

But it was cool to know when I was growing up. Made me appreciate guys like Boone as a kid.

This is really scary...I am related to Daniel Boone too!

Yeah, supposedly so am I ..... I guess everybody is .... he got around ya know.

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:16:48 AM EDT

[#22]

I did one of those DNA tests and found I have something rare so have a pretty narrow track back in England. After an ancestor saved William the Conquerors life he got a castle and lands. I have about 40,000 relatives in England now too.

On this side of the ocean one ancestor was George Washingtons next door neighbor. I don't know if they hung out together. I kinda hope they were shooting buddies.

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:19:02 AM EDT

[#23]

Adam, Eve, Noah...

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:54:37 AM EDT

[#24]

Only a guy on my mothers side who played for the Yankess in a part time roll in the late 1950's. I think his name was Hank Barohie ( sp? )

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:05:05 AM EDT

[#25]

On my fathers side, they tracked it back to Charlemagne.

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:14:08 AM EDT

[#26]

James Buchanan on my mothers side - somehow. Not a direct decendant though.

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:16:01 AM EDT

[#27]

My wife's great-great-great-great grandfather was one of the signer's of the Declaration of Independence. She say's there is scholarship money available for direct descedent's (sp) that our kids will be able to use for college.

Rutledge, center left.

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:17:29 AM EDT

[#28]

elvis

King harold Blood Axe of norway <supposedly>

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:19:48 AM EDT

[#29]

Joseph Bonanno, closest "famous" relative. Not so sure about distant.

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:26:54 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Yuri Andropov

No shit? Cool.

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:28:25 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Growing up I had a Grandmother who was very into geneology.

I am related (distantly and without direct decendency) to Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett & Meriwether Lewis. Obviously so are 1,000s of people.

But it was cool to know when I was growing up. Made me appreciate guys like Boone as a kid.

This is really scary...I am related to Daniel Boone too!

COUSIN!

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:34:59 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
On my fathers side, they tracked it back to Charlemagne.

Aghhhh. Don't use the Phrench name. He's properly known as Karl der Grosse. (Charles the Great).

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:36:10 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Growing up I had a Grandmother who was very into geneology.

I am related (distantly and without direct decendency) to Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett & Meriwether Lewis. Obviously so are 1,000s of people.

But it was cool to know when I was growing up. Made me appreciate guys like Boone as a kid.

This is really scary...I am related to Daniel Boone too!

COUSIN!

Ditto here, 11th generation direct from boone. Crockett also, though I cant remember how him.

Posted: 8/3/2005 11:37:40 AM EDT

[#34]

Yankees fans might remember my 2nd cousin, Ron Guidry

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:01:26 PM EDT

[#35]

My half-sister's grandmother's cousin was Margaret Mitchell.

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:11:15 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Growing up I had a Grandmother who was very into geneology.

I am related (distantly and without direct decendency) to Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett & Meriwether Lewis. Obviously so are 1,000s of people.

But it was cool to know when I was growing up. Made me appreciate guys like Boone as a kid.

This is really scary...I am related to Daniel Boone too!

COUSIN!

Cool...can I borrow a Full Auto rifle from you for a while. I clean it up nice before I return it.

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:19:41 PM EDT

[#37]

Stringbean. He was cool!

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:20:44 PM EDT

[#38]

Son of the Revolution here... Thomas Paine .

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:21:40 PM EDT

[#39]

My dad is Tom Cruze

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:24:59 PM EDT

[#40]

I'm willing to bet a healthy majority the people in our modern Europe and NA are related to founders or rulers. It takes a lot to kill a blood line, and people often had 8 to even dozens of kids.

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:25:22 PM EDT

[#41]

ETAHN ALLEN, not the furniture

forgot to ad, robert the bruce from scotland, the bad guy in the movie braveheart. on my maternal grannies side, great grandmom was a bruce came over from scotland in the 1800's

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:27:40 PM EDT

[#42]

Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island.

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:38:11 PM EDT

[#43]

Edgar Allen Poe

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:40:06 PM EDT

[#44]

I'm supposedly related to this clan of Allens. I've visited their property in Hillsville. They shot up a courthouse and caused a whole heap of trouble!

www.theroanoker.com/favoritearticles/hillsvillemassacre.cfm

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:40:45 PM EDT

[#45]

My maternal grandmother had some documents showing relation to Cullen Baker,
a Texas gunfighter. He was a very bad man.

Cullen Baker

I have a 1954 edition of a book called "Cullen Baker, Premier Texas Gunfighter" that has the
name of a sister or aunt to Cullen that my family is all descended from. We were never
sure if she was his sister or aunt, the records are pretty vague.

He was an asshole.

On my Grandfathers side, he comes from the family of Jim White, one of the first people to
explore the Carlsbad Caverns, and the town outside of there, White City, is named for him.

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:48:49 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
ETAHN ALLEN, not the furniture store

Really? How odd, I'm related Ethan Allen, of the Green Mountain Boys fame.

Posted: 8/3/2005 12:54:48 PM EDT

[#47]

Linda Carter, aka Wonder Woman.
Not related to, but and I sat next to Matthew Brodericks nephew in high school, and used to live in the same neighborhood as Sean Salisbury (NFL quarterback and now ESPN2 NFL2nite host) and Rick Schroeder.