2006-09-11 03:15:28 · 28 answers · asked by september_serenade 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
..or eccentric if you like...
2006-09-11 03:16:42 · update #1
Remember that great skeletal find in Africa, "lucy". Lucy was determined to be 3.18 million years old. Lucy was an ancient female fresh from the human/ape split. She was a homonid. We are all related to her!
2006-09-11 20:25:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both famous and infamous in my records. While I have not yet found the proof it is possible I am a distant relative of Zane Grey the author, and one of my lineage kept getting re-captured by the Indians to be the husband of an Indian Princess. There are of course the ancestors back in England and Ireland as well.. horse thieves and more.
2006-09-11 11:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly eccentric, but a few famous, Chief John Ross, who led the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, Betsy Ross, who may or may not have sewn the first American flag, & last but not least, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom I favor, who was imprisoned & beheaded by her cousin Queen Elizabeth orders. Mary vowed to return as her symbol the phoenix out of the ashes.
2006-09-11 03:32:43 · answer #3 · answered by sweet & sour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey september_se...,
Yes, so do you. It would be difficult not to have someone famous in your ancestral tree! Each generation back gives a power of two more surnames. In mathematic terms, you will have 10,000 people if you go back just 13 generations.
I have Mayflower passengers, Kings, Conquerors, and back to Cleopatra. But, I can only prove without question back to William the Conqueror. History says if you are related to William, you probably are related to Charlemagne too, which links to Cleopatra.
All it takes is the 'milkman' to mess up all those generations.
In more recent history, Elihu Washburn was a trusted adviser to Abe Lincoln.
2006-09-11 03:34:26 · answer #4 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am a distant cousin of Jack Kerouac, author and poet, who's famous manuscript "On the Road" is currently on a trip around the world (the manuscript tour began in 2004 and will conclude in 2007), he also coined the term "Beat Generation." And Conrad Kerouac, a.k.a. Frere Marie Victorin, founder of the French Botanical Gardens in Quebec.
2006-09-11 18:48:26 · answer #5 · answered by moonshadow79 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fifth cousin of Douglas McArthur, the best known general to ever get fired by a president (or maybe McClellan holds that honor).
Family legend held this to be true, but I did not believe the connection until I found photos in a dusty box in my grandfather's basement of his ancestors and mine.
2006-09-12 02:53:07 · answer #6 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father claimed he was the son of a famous English novelist and journalist, who also created the senario for the first King Kong movie . This writer died in Hollywood while working on the script.
2006-09-11 08:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 of the Mayflower Pilgrims. 7 of the Nantucket Proprietors. A founder of Hartford.
Madonna is a 5th cousin on my fathers side and so was Zazu Pitts on my mothers.
2006-09-11 09:08:16 · answer #8 · answered by Woody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-A lady that married King George in hopes of producing an heir, but she didn't, it was one of his other wives
-The muse of Queen Elizabeth
-The godson of Queen Elizabeth
-The doctor on the Mayflower
-General Sherman (the one that burned across Georgia)
-Roger Sherman (created the two house sytem in our government, signed the Declaration)
-A fille de roy, or daughter of the King. Not technically realated to the King, just a tough lady sent over to help populate New France.
2006-09-11 08:57:51 · answer #9 · answered by epitome of innocence 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John and prisilla Alden "mayflower" also Daniel Webster im 11 generations removed from the Mayflower
2006-09-11 15:48:37 · answer #10 · answered by Duane G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋