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This be a thread to share information if you are in any way related to someone sweet and well-known. I'll start by saying I am the great great great great great multiplied by ? grandson of William Wallace. Yes, my uncles name is William and my grandpa is William and his dad was also William. (huge claim)
 
my great great, or great great great aunt founded Creighton university. and my cousin plays on a minor league baseball team for the dodgers.
 
On my dad's side I'm related to an old Sheriff of Nottingham, to one of the first few thousand people over in the Americas from England and to the step-sister of Alexander the Great.
 
In proven reality I really am directly related to the James Heath, royal engraver of King George III, and to the Normans who conquered England in 1066 with William the Conqueror.

 
And as far as far fetched connections like your Wallace one, I've been told that I'm related to El Cid, but I doubt it.
 
no way bro! i bet we are related somehow, my mom is super into doing geneology online and found we are related to catherine, alexander the great and the romanovs.
 
My papa and like 2 other people supposedly, i dont know if it really true, set off the Hungarian Revolution. Its a long story but it has to do with shooting some guard and it involves some kid.
 
I put absolutely no stock in being related to famous people more than a couple hundred years ago. I'm supposedly related to Prince John (the evil prince in robin hood, also ruled in ireland for a while) but it seems like everyone in the world has some type of link to medieval royalty.
 
Yea, my Grandma had this suuuuper old envelope filled with out genealogy and whatnot. And a few years back my dad did alot of research on the subject. It's pretty cool.
 
A very good friend of mine's uncle is actor, Mel Gibson - shes gonna get paid one day ha
 
The guy in the middle is my uncle. This may look silly now but that's the empire state building and this was considered very awesome in the 1930s or whenever.

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Im a descendent of James Otis the American revolutionary polition who said taxation w/o representation is tyranny.
 
my last name, schwerin, is the name of a town in northen germany. and in that town, there is a schwerin castle and a schwerin beer. i really want to try the beer
 
my brothers best friend is related to abraham lincoln. My ex-roomate was the niece of Chris kattan. My long-time friend is the nephew of Chris Ballew from the Presidents and back in middle school we got to go to all their shows for free. My friend in highschool had an older brother than would jam with modest mouse in their garage, and I used to go over there all the time but didn't think they'd one day make it.

I'm pissed that I'm not the heiress to the DeWalt tool company.

but i got nothin'.
 
Last name of Pillmore. We are directly related to one of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, and I am a second cousin to the great Jack Black of Tenacious D fame. yes, I've met him.
 
my great great relatives were french nobility in Alsaince during the french revolution and ran to germany in order to avoid getting the guillotine.

also, Horace Mann, the inventor of the modern public education system, is my great great uncle.
 
my great great relatives were french nobility in Alsaince during the french revolution and ran to germany in order to avoid getting the guillotine.

also, Horace Mann, the inventor of the modern public education system, is my great great uncle.
 
I'm in some way related to a former prime minister of Canada. On another note, my birthday is on the same day as the dude who designed the Eiffel Tower :D
 
My grandmother's great uncle, John Gregory Smith was the governor of Vermont for I think 2 terms around civil war times. He knew Abraham Lincoln, and as a result, his niece (my Grandma's mom) had a card that allowed access to the white house any time at all, among other things. My grandfather's grandparents ran the Hand Brewery, I think in Providence, Rhode Island. Their whole family was pretty much alcoholics. Some family member or inlaw of theirs owned the first car in Rehoboth, Mass. My family still owns land there.
 
my great aunt was co-creator/worked on the first computer ever made, so without her there would be no NS, so yes your welcome all skiers
 
maybe not so famous but jan brett the lady that wrote all those childrens books is my second cousin and she dedicated a book to my lil sis
 
google "joe cari" thats my uncle.

something along the same lines, right before i was born, my last name was ciavirrelli, and part of my fam was involved in the mob, so we moved and changed our name, to cari (took four letters from the old one and came up with this). we didnt change it because we thought they would get mad, i guess it was a peaceful exit, but because i guess its a notorious name in some circles
 
My (great great great great great great great great great great)10 grandfather was Willam Bradford.

2nd Governor of the Plymouth colony who was elected 30 times. He's also credited for......... being the

first person to hold a thanksgiving.
 
my cousin made it to the regionales in the little league world series. but i think thats it. not to many famous people close to my family.
 
my great grandpa was one of the guys that missed the titanic. it was departing when he arrived. i'm led to believe this event really helped with my whole being-here-ness. i dont know if my family still has the unused tickets somewhere, but that would be ballin
 
Word. I have family near Hamburg that own a brewery. I've been told that an uncle of mine actually was drunk one day and died because he fell out of the 2nd story window of the house. Got to love my German heritage.
 
betsy ross (made the first american flag) is my cousin or was something like that and MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPA WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO DIE FROM WISCONSIN IN WORLD WAR DOS
 
my great great grandfather was hannibal hamlin who was the vice pres. under abe lincoln, and my great uncle was the president of colby college
 
i got nothin a bunch of crazy Irish people, one of my grandfathers worked on the alaskin pipeline, not famous but he hade some awsome stories
 
I'm directly related to George Walton (signed the Declaration of Independence) and verry distantly related to Sam Walton (the Walmart guy)

 
my great grandpa was the president of Prussia, it no longer exists because of World War ll, but its in germany.
 
they had prime ministers, not presidents, but i wont hold it against you cause theyre practically the same thing...

what i will hold against you is that you think people on NS are too stupid to know what prussia is...it was a MAJOR european power and it only vanished like 70 years ago...

anyway, they only had 2 prime ministers, paul hirsch and hermann goering

i sincerely hope your great grandpa was paul hirsch, since the other guy was probably the biggest nazi of them all besides hitler. he was also the head of the gestapo and he personally organized the holocaust...

yikes
 
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