Many of us have famous ancestors Who are yours?

[indiucky]

So...not real proud of it but Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer, Luftwaffe night fighter ace is a great-great uncle.

David Schnaufer of Dulcimer fame is a second cousin.

More to come!!

Nothing to be ashamed of. The luftwaffe were well thought of by the allies and despised by many members of the Nazi party.

 

[capn willie]

Thank God I have an anonymous user name
I can admit freely.................................
My first cousin is a Backstreet Boy

No BS

Can you imagine the shame?

 

[BDBHoover]

My aunt's husband on my fathers side is/was 2nd cousin of Al Capone....

 

[Steelman]

Robert E. Lee

 

[Expat]

Jesse James,

I am related through is mother Zerelda.

 

[remauto1187]

Sorry to resurrect this but i feel some humor is in order.

I am related to Wild E. Coyote (we are cousins)

Seriously! My exwife said i was a dog and the other day my Girlfriend said i was a dog. Two women cant be wrong!

 

[mrobnoxious1]

John Gullion- revolutionary war vet buried in Howard county-Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr grandfather
The evil Prince John, Richard the lion hearted's step brother

 

[giovani]

Dick Van Dyke is my uncle.

Sat next to his brother Jerry at a restaraunt he frequents in Danville Ill. one morning.
Didn't realize it was him till he talked to the waitress, no mistaking his voice.

 

[beararms1776]

William Clark, the explorer.

 

[Dybber]

Queen Bloody Mary of England on my father's side and Hogie Charmichael on my mother's side.

 

[aka-kesler]

William Henry Harrison would be My Cousin somewhere down the line on my paternal Grandmothers side, they were all Harrisons....

 

[SSGSAD]

I am related to Walter REED, the Army hospital.....

 

[hoosierdoc]

Some distant relative of mine was entrusted by the royal family with the French crown jewels during a time of unrest. He promptly stole them and fled, eventually being killed by the royals.

 

[Dybber]

I forgot Hoagie Carmichael. He's related to me somehow, too. I'm originally from Bloomington.

Funny, I'm related to him too. Family from Seymour.

 

[Dybber]

Hogie Carmichael is a is (was) a fouth cousin of mine on my Mothers side. Cool music.

Like me, he was known to be an A.. Hole, as most musicians and engineers are.

He's is on my mother's side as well.

 

[Benny]

None that I am aware of.

I did have a Charles Barkley and a Jack Nicholson in my family. They are dead now.

 

[tv1217]

I have the same last name as the guy who discovered the radiation belts around Earth(also named after him), no idea if I'm related to him at all.

 

[Roadie]

My ancestor on my mother's side, John Kimberlin, was the first white settler in what is now Scott's county Indiana. There is a river, a cemetery, and a few other assorted places, named for him in the area..

Oh, and another John Kimberlin used to own the land that is now Connor Prairie. If you go upstairs in the Connor House you can see a copy of the deed with his name on it..

 

[Lashout06R]

I have never found this to be a benefit .. Heart Warming Yes.

In fact if I tell ya, you will know that ... infamous answer ....
that you always get asked when you call the bank or credit card company.

My mothers maiden name is Earn%$rdt ... he drove a blue and yellow Ford when I met him when I was like 12.



"Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle"
- DALE EARNHARDT -

 

[Hoosier8]

Nobody famous but I consider my uncle to be the best I have in that regard. He got a silver star in WWII swimming his men underwater across the Prum River under heavy machine gun fire and he was asked to be on Nixon's cabinet but turned it down because he said you had to be a crook to be in politics.