Your famous ancestors!

[crudus]

My family doesn't have access to their records. I have been disowned on both sides of my family. The knowledge on both sides stops on my grandparents side. However, it is possible we found someone who wasn't disowned from out family but we can't prove we are related(my mom's boss oddly enough). If that is so then I am related to Francis Bacon if I remember right.

Abraham Lincoln..

Please understand my skepticism when I say I don't believe you. Lincoln's ancestors are well documented and the last one died in 1982 (if I remember right). Unless it was via marriage or the relative title ends in "removed", I am going to not believe you.

 

[fo shneezy]

apparently im related to Ulysses s. grant

 

[derelict]

Wonder how much money ancestry.com's made off this thread this week?

I was adopted, and getting information on my real father is kind of like strolling into the Pentagon for blueprints on the new JSF.

That said, my adopted father was in the military for 26 years, including time in Germany and Vietnam. I don't really need ancestry to find truly great people in my family.

 

[Sarge7777]

Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Mage of the KKK was my great great great uncle or something.

Spoiler

I feel dirty.

THAT MEANS YOUR RELATED TO FORREST GUMP!!!!, ahem
I am Related to President Jimmy Carter, umm and an Astronaut, and other people, Oh I know and uncle of mine owns a Pub, damn my bad memory.

 

[Harlemura]

My dad did some digging on our family history a while back, and all he found out was that our family hasn't really moved out of the West Midlands of England for hundreds of years.
None of them famous, though. I had one x number of greats grandfather who died by getting drunk and wandering in front of a train.
Didn't make him famous, but it is kinda funny.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

All I know is I am the decedent of kings

 

[SomeGuyNamedKy]

I can guarantee I'm not related to anyone famous.

My family is as dull as dishwater...

 

[AvsJoe]

No one that I know of. But I come from very pious origins so this is to be expected.

 

[Eldarion]

If you trace me fifteen generations back, you will find that I am a direct descendant of Francis Cooke. Yes, the one who traveled on the Mayflower.

Bow to me!

I have native American ancestors. Get off our land spawn of the colonists.

 

[Fidelias]

Well, I'm related to a famous Scottish tribe, does that count? The Craigs were known for this fancy way of decapitating someone's head in combat with a sword. This actually became known as to "craig" someone. I thought it was pretty awesome.

Edit:wait, I think they were scottish. maybe not. It was either scottish or irish I can't remember.

 

[Revolutionary]

Absolutley no-one YAY!

 

[sdmblack]

one of my great great something-or-others was one of the queens of scotland...or ireland, i always mix them up. oh well, i'm both so at least it's not racist.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I don't have any famous ancestors. I have a couple of truly badass ancestors, one of which died in an incredibly epic (and sad, but, still freaking epic) way, but no famous ones.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

I have no reason to believe it, but the older people of my dad's side of the family says that we're related to Jessie James (the outlaw, not the mechanic/awesome person), and that our family was exiled from Scotland and Ireland for being a crime family.

On that note, anyone in Scotland or Ireland know anything about the Guthrie or Bunyard families being kicked out of the country about two hundred years ago?

 

[Ungenericteen]

Sitting Bull and William Bradford

 

[voetballeeuw]

I had a great great great grandfather who was the archbishop of South Africa.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Apparentley my mom had family wayyyyyyyy back when that cameover on the mayflower.

 

[Zeetchmen]

Vikings!