Famous
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:54 pm
Are you related to anyone famous?
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:03 pm
Nope.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:08 pm
I am related to a few "legend in their own minds"!
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:10 pm
Depends...famous nationwide or locally?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:12 pm
Anyone that we might have heard of.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:12 pm
In that case, nope...not that I'm aware of.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:48 pm
distant relation of Kaiser Wilhelm (Germany, WWI), on my father's side.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:29 pm
yep, Liberace (my grandmother's side)
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:14 pm
James Garner and John Nance Garner --- but verrrrry, verrrrry distantly 
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:44 pm
Judah P. Benjamin, U.S. Congressman, Senator, and Confederate Cabinet, a great-great-great-uncle: and every Royal House in Europe (through marriage, descent over 1,000 years to Odo von Wettin in middle 9th Century, and on mother's side, the Ui Niall of Munster from the 5th Century).
My family (father's side) is a cadet branch of the Danish Royal House. That, and $1.19 plus tax, will buy me a bad cup of coffee anywhere.
My family (father's side) is a cadet branch of the Danish Royal House. That, and $1.19 plus tax, will buy me a bad cup of coffee anywhere.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:40 pm
Evidently I and hundreds of others with the name "Cogswell" in their family tree are shirt tail relatives of Princess Diana's family. Somebody with a lot of time on their hands figured that one out.
I'm evidently also a pretty direct relation to Abraham Lincoln, through his mother.
Unhappily, nobody in my family has been famous since. Although my husband's brother's wife's friend is a cousin of Neil Diamond, and it got them concert tickets once.<grinning>
I'm evidently also a pretty direct relation to Abraham Lincoln, through his mother.
Unhappily, nobody in my family has been famous since. Although my husband's brother's wife's friend is a cousin of Neil Diamond, and it got them concert tickets once.<grinning>
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:00 pm
My husband is Fat Joe's cousin (he is a rapper). And Geraldo Rivera is my 3rd cousin. Good thing I am faceless I don't normally own up to that.
Debbie
DebbiePosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:54 pm
No one would believe me if I said who my dad's cousin traced the family line back to....
Kevin Costner
My grandmother on my dad's side is a Costner and her mom's sister and Costner grandmother are cousins. So that would make me his 4 or 5th cousins I believe. At first I thought my dad was trying to pull a fast one on me when he told me this but he introduce to his cousin who did the family background info and it is true.
Kevin Costner
My grandmother on my dad's side is a Costner and her mom's sister and Costner grandmother are cousins. So that would make me his 4 or 5th cousins I believe. At first I thought my dad was trying to pull a fast one on me when he told me this but he introduce to his cousin who did the family background info and it is true.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:57 pm
And oh I am married to someone famous locally. For all those on the Gulf Coast that get the Mobile Press if you read about the Jubliees my husband's name is mention many of times in the articles.
For all those on the Gulf Coast that get the Mobile Press if you read about the Jubliees my husband's name is mention many of times in the articles. Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:20 pm
I almost was.
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:24 am
My children's great, great, great, great grandfather was Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. I am descended(GGGGG GF)from a German Baroin who forsook his barony to marry a commoner.
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:29 am
vbhoutex wrote:My children's great, great, great, great grandfather was Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. I am descended(GGGGG GF)from a German Baroin who forsook his barony to marry a commoner.
Ach, SO...voot det be Freiherr vbhoutex, zen?
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:06 am
Yes. I am a legend in my own mind....
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:42 am
1LT George Dixon, CSA...skipper of the CSS HUNLEY the night it sunk the USS Houstatonic just offshore from what is now Sullivans Island, SC, which also caused the sub to sink, with the loss of all hands.
What made the hair stand up on my neck was the fact that I was on scene enforcing the waterside security zone the morning of August 8th, 2000 when they raised the HUNLEY and brought her back home; actually got to see her break the surface for the first time in 136 years.
What made the hair stand up on my neck was the fact that I was on scene enforcing the waterside security zone the morning of August 8th, 2000 when they raised the HUNLEY and brought her back home; actually got to see her break the surface for the first time in 136 years.
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:44 am
Nope, not to my knowledge anyway.