Do you have any famous or infamous ancestors?

[EltonJohn]

Originally posted by Blueberry
My ancestors came over on the Mayflower and I am related to quite a few of them through marriages once they got to Plymouth so I heard, including Miles Standish and Priscillia Alden.

Who was Priscillia Alden?

diane

 

[karebear1]

My dad's side of the fam has lots of famous/infamous people! First- I, like Elton John have a great great grandfather from Texas that was known as "the hanging judge"- Then I have a great Uncle who is William Tilden- he was a world class tennis player- He won Wimbledon 2 or 3 times- I'm also related Butch Cassidy- his real last name was Parker- that's my maiden name and last but not least is my father himself- remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? My father is the person that took the photos and identified the missile silos in Cuba back in the early 60's! You probably wouldn't recognize his name though- he was the low man on the totem pole- the big guys got the accolades. How's that for "famous/infamous"? I have them all!!!

 

[disnee15]

Hey Nativetxn,
William Wallace is my great great lot of greats grandpa! Sweet, that makes us distantly in-law related lol.
On me moms side I got to great daniel boone! Aren't I lucky?

 

[browneyes]

As far as I know-no I don't. I'm waiting for my kids to be the famous people in the family.

 

[Pin Wizard]

On mom's side we go back to Benjamin Franklin.

 

[stevenpensacola]

bill clinton........but don't tell anybody.....My aunt has been doing a lot of geneology work and discovered that we've got some common roots with ex-pres Clinton. Have some common relatives burried in a South Alabama cemetary.

Now that I think about it, I bet there are a lot of people related to clinton...."mommy, who's my daddy?"

 

[TREEFROG00]

Hey! suzannen

Thats too Cool.

You don't see any of those family genes in any current releatives do you?

 

[suzannen]

TREEFROG00,
Only the ones actively in prison! (Just Kidding!)

 

[Kirby]

Lady Godiva on my father's side. No one that I know of on my mother's.

 

[Serena]

nope, just people who are a touch insane.