Are you related to any famous people?

Question

And please don't lie.

Answer 1

Yes, because of Adam and Eve, I really am related to everyone who has every lived, and is living now. I don't know of any famous people that I am at all closely related to, though.

Answer 2

Yes. Who needs to lie? I am descended from Mayflower passengers (the religions ones, not the Strangers) as well as several of the Germanna Colonists. Going on back from them, I am descended from Bishops, Kings, Dukes, even Charlemagne (through at least 3 of his sons). Going on back, I am also descended from some of the Caesars.
1) That's no big deal; it is not what they did (ancestors) but what I do.
2. If you had even the rudimentary high school math courses wherein you use the power of two, you quickly realize that, going back, generation by generation, you have two parents, each of your parents has two parents, etc., by the time you have gone back 34 generations, it will take 8,589,934,592 persons just to produce you. The cumulative number of persons to produce you is 16,179,869,184 persons (2 for the first generation, 4 for the second generation or a total of 6 ancestors just to go back to your grandparents. The estimates for current human population are about 6,700,000,000 people on earth today.
Now, here are estimates on how many people were alive at various times:
10000 BC 1 TO 10 MILLION
8000 BC 5 MILLION
6500 BC 5 TO 10 MILLION
5000 BC 5 TO 20 MILLION
4000 BC 7 MILLION
3000 BC 14 MILLION
2000 BC 27 MILLION
1000 BC 50 MILLION
500 BC 100 MILLION
400 BC 162 MILLION
200 BC 150 - 231 MILLION
1 170 - 400 MILLION
200 190 - 256 MILLION
400 190 - 206 MILLION
500 190 - 206 MILLION
600 200 - 206 MILLION
700 207 - 210 MILLION
800 220 - 224 MILLION
900 226 - 240 MILLION
1000 254 - 345 MILLION
1100 301 - 320 MILLION
1200 360 - 450 MILLION
1250 400 - 416 MILLION
1300 360 - 432 MILLION
1340 443 MILLION
1400 350 - 374 MILLION
1500 425 - 540 MILLION
1600 545 - 579 MILLION
1650 470 - 545 MILLION
1700 600 - 679 MILLION
1750 629 - 961 MILLION
1800 813 - 1,125 MILLION
1850 1,128 - 1402 MILLION
1900 1,550 - 1,762 MILLION
1910 1,750 MILLION
1920 1,860 MILLION
1930 2,070 MILLION
1940 2,300 MILLION
1950 2,400 - 2,557


http://www.census.gov/ipc/www.worldhis.html

How long does it take for 8 people to become 25 million?

It seems like it would take a long time, but it could be done amazingly quickly. the primary limiting factor appears to be the amount of food available.

If a woman’s childbearing years are from age 16 to 40 and she has a child every two years, she can give birth to 12 children. If there is plenty of food and few diseases, then most of these children will grow up to have children themselves. On average, 6 of these 12 children will be girls and grow up to be mothers.

With each mother producing 6 more mothers a generation, 8 people can reproduce into 25 million in a few hundred years. As conditions man not have been ideal after the flood, it may have taken considerably longer.

This is mathematical proof of:
1) Your relatives married your relatives (to include cousins, uncles marrying nieces, even closer...)
2. Just look at the numbers: it is practically impossible for a person to not be related to any one famous.

Answer 3

Madonna is a third cousin on my mom's side. Celine Dion and the Dionne quintuplets were cousins through my mom's dad. A very famous French author from the 19th century was the first cousin once-removed of my great-great grandfather. I also have several French-Canadian ancestors who have statues erected in their honor in Quebec. Personally, my favorite ancestor was Alinor of Aquitaine. She was the queen of both England and France.

More importantly, my mother-in-law descends from three of the Salem witches. I see the trait didn't diminish through the years. The only thing she's missing is the wart on the nose.

Answer 4

ancestry.com has a nice feature in which it will tell you about famous relatives. Now, it may not work for you, but it may work for your great-grandfather. It's just the way the system works right now.

I come from a line of Quakers, so sure enough I found a connection to Richard Nixon. He's an eighth cousin, twice removed. There are bunches of others listed, but none are particularly direct.

Answer 5

Pocahontas, Daniel Boone, Ethan Allen, I'm also related to the BLUE FUGATES of Kentucky, and anyone related to the Combs, Stacy's Walkers, Penningtons, Bollings, Bakers, Gabbards and Johns(t)ons That is the truth, I have been tracing my family tree for years. I know this for a fact

Answer 6

Two of my husband's collateral Cummings/Cummins lines have famous people; Norman Rockwell and Lucille Ball.

His 9th great grandfather also testified against Elizabeth Howe at Salem, Massachusetts. She was one of the condemned. There are actual transcripts/images at the University of Virginia that I was able to access online and have the whole story.

When we went to New England a few years ago, I made him sit on Elizabeth's memorial bench in Salem and apologize for his eversogreat grandpa!

Answer 7

Yes, actually Pavlos Melas a famous Greek who fought against the Turks ito free Macedonia , was my late grandmother's...boyfriend for a long time!There are papers that suggest so...Wow!
They never got married , though...She conceived and gave birth to 3 chiidren in the meantime!

Answer 8

My 13x great grandfather was Samuel Fuller. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and was the 1st Deacon of the Leiden Separatists, (those who split from King James, before he had the scribes translated)
His 4x great grandson, (named Jacob) made me a D.A.R. (Daughter of the American Revolution) as Quarter Master, under Col. Timothy Walker's Regiment.

Answer 9

Hi yes my mother is the 2nd cousin of Little Jimmy Dickens the country singer

Answer 10

I'm somehow related to an actress from the soap Neighbours.