Related to anyone famous?

[CapeMayMommy]

"Friends" actor Matt Le Blanc is my second cousin, I've heard. We have great grandparents in common.

I never met him.

 

[palmtreegirl]

Nope

 

[agnes!]

I'm related to Mackenzie Rossman, who played Ruthie on 7th Heaven. I think she's my grandma's sister's granddaughter or something odd like that.

Ack, this one looked so inelegant, I re-did it, but it's already been quoted.

Anyway, see Post #65 below .

agnes!

 

[cheermom1]

Your relationship looks something like this:

Great-grandparents

/......................\
maelstrom's Grandma........Grandma's sister (aka maelstrom's great-aunt)
l...............................l
maelstrom's parent...........Mackenzie Rossman's parent
l.............................................l
maelstrom.......................Mackenzie Rossman

If you had grandparents in common, you & Mackenzie would be 1st cousins. Since you have great grandparents in common, you two are 2nd cousins.

agnes!

WOW that is impressive. there is NO way i could understand that...

it is cool

 

[agnes!]

I'm related to Mackenzie Rossman, who played Ruthie on 7th Heaven. I think she's my grandma's sister's granddaughter or something odd like that.

Great-grandparents
maelstrom's Grandma........Grandma's sister
maelstrom's parent....................Mackenzie's parent
maelstrom.............................. Mackenzie​

If you had grandparents in common, you & Mackenzie would be 1st cousins. Since you have great grandparents in common, you two are 2nd cousins.

agnes!

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Anjelica Huston. My grandfather's middle name was Huston. Her father, director John Huston, was his second cousin.

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

My dad is David Cassidy....not THE David Cassidy...but a David Cassidy. And yes, in the 1970s we got phone calls from screaming teenagers who wanted to know if David Cassidy really lived at my house !

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

What do you all use to find the really "old" ancestors? Just family memories, or some sort of ancestry tool?

 

[Nennie]

My husband's cousin was very famous in the late 80s - early 90s. She's still a celeb, but not as famous as she used to be.

 

[tinkntraining]

My husband's cousin was very famous in the late 80s - early 90s. She's still a celeb, but not as famous as she used to be.

Don't know why, but Joan Collins immediately came to mind.

 

[Coach K]

My cousin played and sang in the country swing band "Asleep At The Wheel" when they won a Grammy in the 70's. They used to always open up for Willie Nelson.

 

[RadioNate]

Ummm not really, I guess. My great-uncle was a WWII pilot that is likely familiar to war buffs. My DH's cousin wrote a best-selling novel. She is currently working on the follow up and the screen play.

I have some infamous connections that resulted in TV movie of the week type stuff.

I went to HS with a soap actor, a few NFL players and a director. My mom was friends with several members of a (no longer) popular rock band. I went to HS with the most famous member of that band's son.

I have more than one professional athlete that I'd call a friend and if you consider local radio (and some minor TV) personalities to be celebrities or famous, I know about 100 of them from markets all over the country and a few syndicated ones.

 

[Mas17]

DH is related to John Hancock (signer of the Declaration of Independence). He also has a relative that is buried standing up.

Me - nada.

 

[Lucky'sMom]

Chris Kirkpatrick from N Sync is my 2nd cousin (our Grandmothers are sisters I think). Never met him of course, but saw him in the hometown parade.

 

[agnes!]

Anjelica Huston. My grandfather's middle name was Huston. Her father, director John Huston, was his second cousin.

Anjelica Huston is your 3rd-cousin, once-removed.

This is how the relationship would look:

Common Ancestors
(gypsydoodlebug's great great great grandparents)
/........\
Siblings
(gypsydoodlebug's great great grandparents)
(Anjelica Huston's great grandparents)
/...............................................\
gypsydoodlebug's great grandparent......1st cousins.....John Huston parent

/.....................................................\​

gypsydoodlebug's grandfather..........2nd cousins..........John Huston
/.............................................................\
gypsydoodlebug's parent....................3rd cousins...............Anjelica Huston
/....................................................................\
............gypsydoodlebug...................................4th cousins.......................Anjelica Huston descendant​

Once-removed just means you're removed from the relationship by a generation. There's also a thing called ascendancy/descendancy that goes along with the relationship being one generation up or down a generation but I don't really get that.

agnes!

 

[pooh6890]

Steven Bauer was Bill Sykes to my Nancy in Oliver in our high school play in Miami in 1974. Unfortunately, he had to drop out because of his football schedule. I hear he has a restaurant in Miami now. He was always a nice guy too.

 

[klj27]

I just found out this summer that our cousin's brother in law is Clark Howard.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Anjelica Huston is your 3rd-cousin, once-removed.

This is how the relationship would look:

Common Ancestors
(gypsydoodlebug's great great great grandparents)
/........\
Siblings
(gypsydoodlebug's great great grandparents)
(Anjelica Huston's great grandparents)
/...............................................\
gypsydoodlebug's great grandparent......1st cousins.....John Huston parent

/.....................................................\​

gypsydoodlebug's grandfather..........2nd cousins..........John Huston
/.............................................................\
gypsydoodlebug's parent....................3rd cousins...............Anjelica Huston
/....................................................................\
............gypsydoodlebug...................................4th cousins.......................Anjelica Huston descendant​

Once-removed just means you're removed from the relationship by a generation. There's also a thing called ascendancy/descendancy that goes along with the relationship being one generation up or down a generation but I don't really get that.

agnes!

Cool! Thanks! She's my mom's age, but we lost that side of the family long ago.

 

[newtodis]

Not related to anyone that I know of but my cousin (my mom's cousin actually) has taken pictures of TONS of celebrities. His myspace and facebook pages are unreal! Also, a good friend's fiance is a trainer for the Vikings. Needless to say she wasn't happy with who was in the Super Bowl.

This totally interests me! I'd love to learn more about putting together a family tree and the research that goes into it.

 

[dis75ney]

I am related to Elvis (through marriage), General Custer, and my mother just found out that we are direct decendants of Geoffrey Chaucer...