Have you found out you are related to someone famous in history.

I'm a Mayflower descendent and Chief Massasoit descendent on my Father's side.

I want to so badly.....but I heard it was really expensive. Maybe if the whole family chipped in and bought it together.

Steadwood said:

Oh very funny, besides the obvious.

Steadwood said:

Steadwood said:

Are you an heir to their multi-million dollar sex-aid industry?

this has been on my mind today . i am lucky because my grandfather has already done alot of work for me on this front --- however ... there are literally volumes of volumes of 3 ring binders ... that are interesting ... but ...
alot of reading.

somehow i am related to the chapman name. johnny chapman was known as johnny appleseed .

i think there is a tie to the huegenots too (didnt spell that right i fret) .

I worked on my family history for over two years. It was so fun I am working on Prince's for the fun of it.

girl66 said:

I dunno...the family tree gets a bit sketchy after one of my ancestors was abandoned as a kid in some bullrushes




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i have this funny thing..i am like two people..cause you see.

i was born in america,california
my mom was born in el salvador,but her father was from panama,and his mother(which makes my grand-grandmother is from africa)
and my father is like from mexico.

so i guess thats makes me

mexican-salvadoran-american with panamian and african decent.


i think..lol.
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live4lust said:

girl66 said:

Yourself? Or was a professional involved? I don't know over half the people on my dad's side, so it would be really tough. I wouldn't know where to start.

AnckSuNamun said:

By myself.

It can be fun, it can be costly and you will run into brick walls to solve.

I started to,
but at one point,
my family history ran into a trailer park.
After that,
I didn't want to know any more.

Trailers, from what I understand, can only go downhill.

i want to, very much. especially my mother's side, the native american/mexican and burmese side of my family.

my maternal grandparents have a very detailed book that is kept at their house with everyone's name, birthday, wedding aniv and date of death dating to i think 1700. before that we can refer to Church records in Ireland.

plus my grandma has the baptismal dress everyone in my family for the past 150 years has been baptised in with their names and date of baptism framed on her wall. the grown dress itself has gotten to frail to use anymore.

I hope I'm not related to Ben, but it would explain quite a bit.

live4lust said:

Your avvie.

AnckSuNamun said:

I just realized it gained some resonance in this thread.

live4lust said:

Are you gonna watch the show? They showed a preview of the pilot episode.....and it looks awful.

AnckSuNamun said:

no doubt.

Impossible thing for me! My grandfather, mother sides, has been abandoned as newborn, by the door of a church.

My mom is ALL into this stuff, she's traced our family back into the 1600's. The only famous person so far is Grover Cleveland. Most of my ancestors were from Germany, Ireland, and England.

gemini13 said:

Grover Clevand, I think finding ancestors like that is very interesting.

In Iceland there is a database accessible by all Icelanders where you can type in a name of an Icelander and see how he/she is related to you. Since this is a small country (300.000) it's not surprising that I'm related to quite a few famous Icelanders (famous in Iceland, though). If I go back to the 18th century, I can trace my roots to an Irish princess and a Jewish merchant from Denmark. But the database goes all the way back to the 9th century, so I can actually trace myself to Leifur Eiríksson (the first European to discover America).

purplehippieonthe1 said:

erik the red?

Yes and I found out that my people are American Indians, I was so happy that I started to go to powwows every summer and read everything I could about my Indian heritage, but most of it is so sad that it makes me cry.