Many of us have famous ancestors Who are yours?

[MadMan66]

I'm told I'm a direct descendant of Admiral de Grasse, the French Admiral who fought along side of General George Washington in the War of Independence. I'm also somehow related to Mary Todd Lincoln, which explains a lot about my family.

 

[mtinner]

My great grandfather was a sheep shearer from Kentucky. Okay, that's what he said he did to them.

 

[drop45]

Giorgos Papatraherivopoulos, he invented Greek Fire. He was a Greek, I am a Greek.

 

[rob63]

When I was a kid my mom told me that one of my ancestors rode with Jesse James and his gang. I bragged about it to all of the other kids, thought it was really cool.

Years later at a family reunion my mom introduced me to an elderly distant relative of some sort and said she could tell me the whole story. Turns out he was riding back to town when a bunch of guys rode up and asked for directions to the town. He told them he was headed that way so they rode with him. Later he figured out that it was the same gang that robbed the bank the next day.

Even if it is all true, he just gave them directions. Not quite the same thing as riding with them!

 

[Leadeye]

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, Google it.

 

[saleen4971]

i know a guy who claimed to be related to ralph macchio.

i think he was lying.

 

[1DOWN4UP]

My mothers side has blue bloods which have traced well past 1000 years. Another branch had some Dicxhead who said to have invented the Internet. Elvis is in there. The Fighter was Marbhachair Chamuis the Slayer..than...Father was from a long lost line of Mongrels.

 

[Dockem]

Distant, distant cousin:

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[Leadeye]

My mothers side has blue bloods which have traced well past 1000 years. Another branch had some Dicxhead who said to have invented the Internet. Elvis is in there. The Fighter was Marbhachair Chamuis the Slayer..than...Father was from a long lost line of Mongrels.

And Bill Hickman for an avatar.

 

[1DOWN4UP]

Yea!

 

[Dockem]

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, Google it.

Did he invent those cool specs you always saw advertised?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I've been told I'm within 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

 

[ccomstock001]

I have always heard I was related to General George Pickett but never really been confirmed.

 

[Leadeye]

Yea!

68s Rule.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I'm from a long, undistinguished, line of nobodies.

 

[VN Vet]

In the early 1800s, my family help found Newburgh, IN. It was originally named Sprinkleville, Warrick County, IN. The Sprinkle name is on my Mother's side of the Family and is still a name found in Southwestern Indiana. One of those relatives was hung as a horse thief. I guess that is in-famous rather that famous, huh?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

In the early 1800s, my family help found Newburgh, IN. It was originally named Sprinkleville, Warrick County, IN. The Sprinkle name is on my Mother's side of the Family and is still a name found in Southwestern Indiana. One of those relatives was hung as a horse thief. I guess that is in-famous rather that famous, huh?

Are you all related to the guy that owns Guns, Knives, and More in Paoli? His last name is Sprinkle.

 

[indiucky]

In the early 1800s, my family help found Newburgh, IN. It was originally named Sprinkleville, Warrick County, IN. The Sprinkle name is on my Mother's side of the Family and is still a name found in Southwestern Indiana. One of those relatives was hung as a horse thief. I guess that is in-famous rather that famous, huh?

Perry County...We own the old Alma Sprinkle farm house near St Croix...You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Sprinkle in Perry County..

My mom's side are all early Indiana Pioneers...Truesdell's, Very's, William's, McClintock's, and Chew's....They settled at the Falls after the Revolution and I believe John Williams served with Clark (not on the Illinois expedition, but a later raid)....

Dad's side are typical Kentucky Scot-Irish with a possible Boone connection through Boone's eldest daughter (who married a Hayes).....We were involved in a feud at the turn of the 20th century...The last deaths associated with the feud were my great-great Uncle and his son...They were killed on election day in Muhlenburg County during the 1920's...The feud started in Grayson County and bled over (no pun intended) to Muhlenburg County....

 

[HoughMade]

Salem Witch Trials Notable Persons

 

[Super Bee]

Rock Hudson is my cousin by marriage. His father married my aunt later in life.