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Ardent15 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:09 PM
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Another ancestry topic
Edited on Sun Jun-13-10 03:09 PM by Ardent15
Anyone here related to anyone famous or infamous or notable or otherwise prominent?

I'm a direct descendant of Samuel Lisle Smith, the first city attorney of Chicago.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:22 PM
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1. I'm fairly distantly related (5th or 6th cousin) to John Pershing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pershing

Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, searched for Pancho Villa in Mexico, and had a missile named after him.

Also, there's a park and a statue in Washington, D.C. dedicated to him:



Not too bad, though I'd say he's a distant relation at best.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:38 PM
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2. General William Tecumseh Sherman and Norman Rockwell. n/t
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:50 PM
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3. bastard!
Sherman destroyed my ancestral home!!

:P
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:40 PM
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15. How?
My family raised him and he married into it. We could be distant cousins.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 06:20 AM
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23. My mother and his (Gen. Sherman) mother have the same last name.
Our original ancestor in this country arrived in 1628 or thereabouts. I am the 13 generation in this country. Fortunately my mother had a book which is now mine that lists all the generations. There is also a book written by a family historian which is still in print, but it's over $50 and some of it is available online.

If you are referring to Norman Rockwell I only just read about that online in regards to the family history but it is the same name as with General Sherman.

I think the further back that 2 people go the more likely they will be to have a common ancestor.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:51 PM
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4. Sgt. York
I wonder if that has anything to do with our family all being "natural shots"? Interesting genetic study . . .
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 04:01 PM
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5. Bruce Nauman was a neighbor once.
That the closest my family ever got to greatness.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 04:08 PM
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6. I had a great-uncle somewhere in Ireland...
.
...who was known as "the town letch", but didn't become so
until after he was 90 years old.
.
A cousin who visited his family in that small village said the
barmaids thought his occasional leers, suggestive remarks
and even bottom-pinches were charming rather than insulting
or creepy,
.
.
.
.
At least he wasn't out-and-about destroying someone's ancestral home!!!!
.
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 04:33 PM
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7. I'm distantly related to...
...some guy who went with Napoleon and never made it back to France. That's pretty much the highlight of my ancestry.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 04:43 PM
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8. Your relative could one of millions left behind in places like the Levant and Russia.
Archaeologist are still finding the graves of Napoleon's soldiers:
Early in 2002, while bulldozing some ugly Soviet barracks on the outskirts of Vilnius, municipal workers uncovered a mass grave. Thousands of skeletons were discovered there, laid out neatly in layers. Where did these bones come from? Were they those of Jews, massacred by the Nazis? No. For here's a metal button, with '61' stamped on it. Here's another, stamped '29'. And here's a patch of an ancient uniform, once blue. Also to be seen is a gold 20-franc coin from Napoleonic times, and a 'shako' (a French infantryman's helmet), squashed flat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/excavations_techniques/napoleon_army_01.shtml
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 05:27 PM
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10. He's not buried there
He somehow wound up in Munich and started a family.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 05:13 PM
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9. Sir Thomas More
among others (direct ancestor)

More cool, but distant relations: Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Sam & John Adams, Jonathan Edwards, Gov. Winthrop. Gotta love Ancestry.com's "find famous relatives" option.

dg
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 05:45 PM
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11. Charlemagne
direct descendant, through two lines. Also: Charles Martel. Henry I of France. Henry I of England. Through them, the entirety of the British royal family. William the Conqueror. William Marshall, considered the greatest knight who ever lived, and whose name is on the Magna Carta.

And a cousin to Shakespeare.
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:07 PM
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13. Hi Cuz. I'm supposed to be in his line too.
Through my g-g-grandfather. I must admit, though, that the online lineage I've seen is hard to decipher that far back. That is the claim, though.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:14 PM
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14. There are more false lineages to Charlemagne online than real ones.
It's so common in fact that it's on everyone's red flag list of suspect genealogies.
I'm not suggesting that the prior poster isn't legitimately linked but since you have some doubts about your own line they may be well founded.
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 11:38 PM
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20. You could be right. I'm not wedded to it. I do like my real genealogy though.
The branches I'm certain about and the stories my father and grandparents told us when we were kids were pretty awesome, though no fame. There seems to be a prevalence of tough-assed women and not a few scoundrels, and I kind of like that.
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 09:58 AM
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26. I've been triple checking everything
one line is suspect, the other is pretty solid.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 10:55 PM
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30. To be fair, the majority of Western Europeans have Charlemagne as an ancestor.
Statistically speaking, pretty much almost anyone in western Europe that had offspring in 800AD is an ancestor to most people of Western Europe today.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 08:45 PM
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12. Nope. Just a bunch of hardworking good eggs. And my family tree goes back
a ways in all branches.
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:42 PM
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16. Everyone's does; think about it for a moment
If your ancestry didn't go back a long way, you wouldn't exist. Same for everyone alive today.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 10:19 PM
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19. I mean I had inherited or researched info on my family tree going
back to the 1500s in one case. Oh I know we all go back. In fact I have heard it said that everyone in England is related to the queen if you go back 1000 years (or something like that).
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:48 PM
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17. Vercingetoryx
on my dad's side.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:48 PM
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18. I am descended from the Fourteenth Baronet of Pomerania.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 11:42 PM
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21. John Alden and Priscilla Mullens
from the Mayflower on my paternal side. Also some German prince or somethingorother from my maternal side.
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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 12:39 AM
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22. I am the grandson of Satan, lord of darkness.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 06:29 AM
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24. My extended family tree

Y

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<== me

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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 09:16 AM
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25. John Lennon
Distant cousin on my father's side.
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 10:39 AM
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27. I'm a direct decendant of the only
woman tried for witchcraft in Pennsylavania, Margaret Mattson, the witch of Ridley Creek.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 10:42 AM
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28. Distant cousin of Richard Burton.
My great grandparents knew him from Port Talbot when he was Richard Jenkins.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 10:51 PM
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29. according to my mom there is a minor German nobleman in my ancestry on her side.
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