Your family trees

[Haus]

anyone have any one famous in there family tree or an ancestor that you know of thats been in your history books or way back when that we may know of.

i was told that from my very older relatives that Buffalo Bill Cody is an ancestor of mine


and Deirdre Quinn is a relative of mine. her grandmother bea is my grandfathers cousin.not sure what that make me to her exactly. she was miss texas in the movie 'Miss Congeniality' she hasnt been in much but you may know her from that movie

anyone else have anyone in their family we may know of or heard of before

 

[TheOriginalJames]

My dad traced our roots back to the 1600s with Jacob being one of our namesakes earliest ancestors.

 

[MrAWatts]

Alot of my family is into geneology (sp?) hardcore, so we have our family tree traced back quite a ways. To answer the question, Charles Dickens, the writer.

 

[BaggedSplash]

i know mine goes back to the 1800s when my relatives from Sweden moved over here but other than that i dont have anyone famous in my family to my knowledge. but i can say that i share the same last name as Robert Englund who plays Freddie Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street movies. i dont think im related to him. :dunno

 

[Sim]

Re: RE: Your family trees

He's a really nice guy. He did Fright Nights at AstroWorld in Houston (it has closed its doors this past year) one year when I was much younger, and I rode a ride with him, then got to go watch him get into makeup and sat backstage while all the stuff was taking place. It was really an awesome thing to do as a child who was into gore!

but i can say that i share the same last name as Robert Englund who plays Freddie Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street movies. i dont think im related to him. :dunno

As for the question, on my father's side, we have Santa Anna in the bloodline. My mother's side, we're related to the current governor of Texas, Rick Perry. My ex-husband's uncle is Clay Walker, the country music artist, and another uncle of his is politician Nick Lampson.

I think a lot of this has totally dampered my ability to be star struck. lol I like this thread you started, Haus! Great idea!!

 

[lemon]

well, i have in an email from my aunt, a family tree dating back some time, i think pre 1800s, by my grandmother. a notation shows president grant. some way back cousin 3 hundred times removed... or something...

if i can get into gmail... ill see if i can pull it up.. :dunno

 

[Veronica]

Fay Wray (she is an actress and played on the 1933 king kong) and Casper the ghost. I know that shoulds strange, but I actually found the information and new reports stating that he haunted his own house for many years after his death.

 

[OUZBnd]

Colenel Sanders is related to our family a few cousins ago. I don't really get a kick out of knowing 'famous' people tho - they are just another person. The people that really impress me are those like my grandfather who is highly decorated from WWII, and highly respected as a person. But I guess thats just me.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Let's see, in my direct line (maternal grandmother's), I have Kings Robert I (also known as Robert the Bruce), Robert II, and Robert III, Edward the Exile, Edward the Elder, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, plus various lords, earls, and sirs. There are a lot of ancient Scottish, Irish, and Frankish kings too but most of them are based on legends (and you wouldn't know them anyway).

Indirectly, I'm distantly related to FDR, Lewis Carroll, Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, George Washington, Julia Child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, George Bush, and the British royal family, among others.

Genealogy is a hobby of mine. I currently have 607 individuals in my tree and that's not even closed to being completed.

 

[hhayes]

dang

 

[Makaio]

None that I know of...Oh, wait...

CHARLEMAGNE!

Well, in actuality, most pro. Geneologists believe that any person with European ancestry (don't ask me how) is, in some way, descended from him. Seems befitting for someone as important to all of history as him.

Considering if that isn't true, I'm not aware of me being related to anyone famous; although it is a good chance, as everyone is probably, in some way.

My grandmother and grandfather (mother's side) were Greek and German. Grandfather came over here after the Second World War, then went back. My father's family is Irish and Indian. Wonderful mix, eh? I'm a melting pot in human form.

 

[UncleBacon]

I don't know much about my ancestry unfortunately

 

[Rusteh]

Re: RE: Your family trees

I don't know much about my ancestry unfortunately

 

[Hurt911gen]

i dunno, i was adopted by a family from bent, washington

 

[BooFetus]

Re: RE: Your family trees

I don't know much about my ancestry unfortunately

 

[Blackwater_GT]

My great Grandmother was the Daughter of the outlaw Frank James. She married into the balance family in KY.