Do you Have Any Historical Figures In Your Family?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-04-03 01:44am

didn't I read somewhere that most of europe are distant direct illegitamate disendants of either Gengis Khan and or Charlemane.?

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2006-04-03 06:39am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:didn't I read somewhere that most of europe are distant direct illegitamate disendants of either Gengis Khan and or Charlemane.?

According to the Discovery Channel 1/200 in the world are related to Khan.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-04-03 08:14am

Trytostaydead wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:didn't I read somewhere that most of europe are distant direct illegitamate disendants of either Gengis Khan and or Charlemane.?
According to the Discovery Channel 1/200 in the world are related to Khan.

Once you go back a thousand years or so you'll find that everyone in Europe is related to everyone else, thanks to the constant state of open war. My biology teacher used to joke that anyone with dark hair was a bastard Spaniard or Roman somewhere down the line - soldiers get frisky between battles.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2006-04-03 08:15am

I was told I'm connected to writer James Whitcomb Riley through my grandmother on my mother's side.

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2006-04-03 09:42am

Acording to family history, I'm directly decended from people mentioned in The Spoon River Anthology. This would tend to be true as my mom's side of the family is from Lewiston, the town the book is based off of. Other than that the family tree either goes back to Virginia in the early 1700's, where it gets rather muddled, or back to Poland where we haven't been able to find it yet.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2006-04-03 11:32am

Trytostaydead wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:didn't I read somewhere that most of europe are distant direct illegitamate disendants of either Gengis Khan and or Charlemane.?
According to the Discovery Channel 1/200 in the world are related to Khan.

Yep, and I happen to be one of them.

That sums it up for people of significant historical note in my family tree.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2006-04-03 12:12pm

Trytostaydead wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:didn't I read somewhere that most of europe are distant direct illegitamate disendants of either Gengis Khan and or Charlemane.?
According to the Discovery Channel 1/200 in the world are related to Khan.

KHAAAAAANNN!!!!

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2006-04-03 12:38pm

Winston Blake wrote:And really folks, isn't that what this thread is all about?

Incidentally i just noticed i have an ancestor named Janet Riddick. Hence i am likely related to this famous historical figure:

Bah. A whole slew of my ancestors were surnamed Storm.

Darth Lucifer · Post by **Darth Lucifer** » 2006-04-03 01:02pm

I have Hatfield blood in my veins, so my folks tell me. Hatfield as in the Hatfields and McCoys. My great great (I think, maybe three greats?) grand mother was Essie Hatfield who married outside of the Clan into the Lawrence Family, which is my Grandmother's maiden name.

Zor · Post by **Zor** » 2006-04-03 01:46pm

Via an Ilegitamate relationship, i am related to Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson. Really, my mom knew this person who did reserch into geneology and it came out that i am related to him.

Go Lord Nelson!

Zor

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-04-03 02:26pm

my mom's side has McCoys, Turners (as in Teddy boy), and others, in it.

AK_Jedi · Post by **AK_Jedi** » 2006-04-03 03:08pm

My father's grandmother's maiden name was Bach. We believe that it was the same Bach as the composer.

Incidentally, in a previous life, I was Alexander the Great's chief eunuch.

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-04-03 05:34pm

I'm probably related to the Dalton Gang.

One of my ancestors also possibly came over the Channel when the Normans invaded England in 1066.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2006-04-03 05:37pm

AK_Jedi wrote:My father's grandmother's maiden name was Bach. We believe that it was the same Bach as the composer.

Incidentally, in a previous life, I was Alexander the Great's chief eunuch.

Rimmer for the win!

Koolaidkirby · Post by **Koolaidkirby** » 2006-04-03 06:35pm

i have a greatuncle who was a liuetenent (sp?) governer of alberta (IIRC) and my family (my moms side) first came over with Samuel Champlaine (again sp?) on his second voyage to the new world(But thats just a family history not an actual famous person.)

TheBlackCat · Post by **TheBlackCat** » 2006-04-03 06:52pm

Oh, yeah, that reminds me. Anyone familiar with the great 1965 blackout that shut down power to most the northeast US and southeast Canada? I am related to the guy who caused it.

I think it was my mother's cousin or uncle or something like that. Technically he didn't cause it, but he was in charge of the Niagra power station the night it happened so he was held responsible for it.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2006-04-03 11:18pm

TheBlackCat wrote:Oh, yeah, that reminds me. Anyone familiar with the great 1965 blackout that shut down power to most the northeast US and southeast Canada? I am related to the guy who caused it. I think it was my mother's cousin or uncle or something like that. Technically he didn't cause it, but he was in charge of the Niagra power station the night it happened so he was held responsible for it.

Remind me to keep an eye out for where you and your ilk will be working!!

J/p.. maybe.

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2006-04-10 07:43am

Friedrich Engels should be one of my distant ancestors.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2006-04-10 08:38am

According to my grandmother on my moms side, her side of the family came over on the Mayflower. I don't know how true that is, and I'm too cheap for gneaology.com, but it really wouldn't surprise me.

Stile · Post by **Stile** » 2006-04-10 01:46pm

Joe wrote:Daniel Boone is a distant great-uncle on my mother's side.

Huh. My distant great-grandfather from the Transylvania area of NC hunted with Daniel Boone. One of my 2nd cousins has one of the muskets that Daniel Boone gave to the grandfather.

Also, one of the line stayed in Detroit area after the Civil War. He married a nurse who helped heal him in a POW camp. He developed amnesia about his wife and kids in NC. He went on to start Fisher Carriage Works that progressed into Fisher Body Works.

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2006-04-10 01:58pm

I can only trace my family back to my great-grandfather, since genealogical records are hard to come by for overseas Chinese. In any case, I guess one bad thing about being Chinese is that the odds of having somebody historically significant in one's family must be astronomically small.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2006-04-10 07:22pm

I'm a direct male-line descendent of Genghis Khan, but all that remains of this noble lineage is a predeliction for furry hats. Cookie for the reference.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-04-10 08:04pm

I don't know, but thanks for all the fish....

chatters spammingly

CarsonPalmer · Post by **CarsonPalmer** » 2006-04-10 08:09pm

Suddenly has a desire to see the Aliens running from his burning house, preferably with one or two large spears sticking from his back.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-04-10 08:20pm

trust me the icelander genes keep giving me this strange urge to invade england....