People you're related to who did notable things

Backglass · Post by **Backglass** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:20 pm

Kid_A wrote:my girlfriends father is a hollywood director. however you dont get to know who but everyone knows his movies

Rumors don't count. Besides, why the secrecy? Is he afraid that a bunch of Risk geeks might learn his secret identity?

Green · Post by **Green** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:25 pm

Backglass wrote:
Kid_A wrote:my girlfriends father is a hollywood director. however you dont get to know who but everyone knows his movies
Rumors don't count. Besides, why the secrecy? Is he afraid that a bunch of Risk geeks might learn his secret identity?

what do you mean rumors? i havent heard any rumors

Aries · Post by **Aries** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:26 pm

I may(times10) be related to french royalty

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:29 pm

Stopper wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:I once dreamed that Bill Clinton invited me to his house for Thanksgiving dinner with him, Hillary, and Chelsea. I accepted. It was great.
Frankly, I think you're making that dream up. You make no mention of any untoward sexual advances from the great man himself. Unless, of course, you didn't think they were untoward

I'm not. There were no sexual advances. His demeanor towards me was paternalistic, really.

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:32 pm

Well, if I dreamed about Bill Clinton, he would definately be making advances towards me

SolidLuigi · Post by **SolidLuigi** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:33 pm

Alot of my ancestors from Sicily were in the mob, before we came over in the early 1900's, I guess the ones that stayed there still probably are. Thats about it.

DIRESTRAITS · Post by **DIRESTRAITS** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:39 pm

My GGGGGGGGGgrandfather was Charlemagne(I'm not sure how many Gs)

And distant cousins don't count, because pretty much everyone in America is a 10th cousin or something.

juggernaut man · Post by **juggernaut man** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:52 pm

I'm related to a famous german chemist on my mom's side and there is also a place in Germany named after him.
Willaim Penn the founder or something of Pennsylvannia gave some of my relatives land.
Also, some of my relatives were from a country that doesn't exist anymore.

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:43 am

I'm related to henry the conqueror!!!!

*Its late at night so if i mis-spell something please blame the booze here*

He did something note worthy..after all he is in history books is he not?

Salva-

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:43 am

Annie Lennox (of the Eurythmics) is my second cousin, according to my Dad.

Although I should quality this by saying my Dad is renowned for just making stuff up for a laugh.

Guiscard · Post by **Guiscard** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:12 am

DIRESTRAITS wrote:My GGGGGGGGGgrandfather was Charlemagne(I'm not sure how many Gs)

And distant cousins don't count, because pretty much everyone in America is a 10th cousin or something.

How do you know this? A lot of people have problems going before about 1500 due to incomplete / confusing / lack of census information.

boogiesadda · Post by **boogiesadda** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:22 am

William H Seward was a great great great uncle

CBlake · Post by **CBlake** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:32 am

shaquille o neal is my uncle

stinkycheese · Post by **stinkycheese** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:22 am

Off the top of my head...

Robert E. Lee

Jesse, Bad Boy · Post by **Jesse, Bad Boy** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:37 pm

Guiscard wrote:
DIRESTRAITS wrote:My GGGGGGGGGgrandfather was Charlemagne(I'm not sure how many Gs)

And distant cousins don't count, because pretty much everyone in America is a 10th cousin or something.
How do you know this? A lot of people have problems going before about 1500 due to incomplete / confusing / lack of census information.

Most famous bloodlines had the money or prestige to maintain fairly accurate records.

As for you your challenge to my claims of blood, which relatives do you not buy as being true? Second, how do you want me to prove these things?

for dummies · Post by **for dummies** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:40 pm

i am a direct desendent of robert the bruce

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:56 pm

I am President Bush.

no really, I have a family of losers

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:15 pm

Jeez, I totally forgot until just this moment! My parents looks exactly like the couple of the front of Kashi Good Friends cereal. That's pretty notable, no?

Numia Kereru · Post by **Numia Kereru** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:21 pm

btownmeggy wrote:Jeez, I totally forgot until just this moment! My parents looks exactly like the couple of the front of Kashi Good Friends cereal. That's pretty notable, no?

That's pretty damn notable in my books!

CHEERS!!

edit: on topic, I have ancestors of note to me. Their feats would pale in comparison to most claims here but they are revered by me and my family

DIRESTRAITS · Post by **DIRESTRAITS** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:34 pm

Guiscard wrote:
DIRESTRAITS wrote:My GGGGGGGGGgrandfather was Charlemagne(I'm not sure how many Gs)

And distant cousins don't count, because pretty much everyone in America is a 10th cousin or something.
How do you know this? A lot of people have problems going before about 1500 due to incomplete / confusing / lack of census information.

My Aunt is obsessed about geneology

Fircoal · Post by **Fircoal** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:40 pm

Let I know one person for sure. ME!

morph · Post by **morph** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:04 am

hm back, and i mean way way the hell back, one of my ancestors was contracted to kill a scottish (or irish) userper, i have no idea, my parents did the research and they found my family crest, its a helm with a bloody dagger above it...

i think the story goes the king went out to fight on a war and then came back to find someone takin over his throne, so he hired one of my ancestors to kill the dude and well, he did it, he stabbed a freakin dagger through the mans skull...

it amuses me... but thats about all i got...

diddle · Post by **diddle** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:39 am

define notable....

b.k. barunt · Post by **b.k. barunt** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:52 am

I got the same story as Sammy Gags - maybe we're related. My paternal grandmother's family (Cunningham), had a coat of arms from the king for hiding him in a haystack when he was pursued by God knows who. I don't remember which king it was, but there was a haystack on the coat of arms. My mother's people were horse thieves in England and stowed away on a ship to America. Nothing exciting, but i was once verbally assaulted by Frank Zappa for sitting in "his seat" in a waiting room.

chewyman · Post by **chewyman** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:53 am

Well my paternal great grandparents escaped persecution in Eastern Europe (they were Jews) because of their business. They owned a lingerie store that supplied Hitler's mistress. She warned my great grandparents to flee Germany, which they did.

My great aunt was one of the world's first supermodels. Her face is on the box of every packet of 'Redheads' matches in Australia.