Are you related to any historical figures?

Salah

Salah

Joined Oct 2009
23,286 Posts | 99+
Maryland
I'm not sure if this topic has already been addressed before...:rolleyes:

As for me, family tradition has it that we are related to Robert E. Lee. Every generation of the family in the 20th Century was named for General Lee.

That's pretty much the only one I know of for me; on the other side of my family I may have ancestors who served as Teutonic Knights in Eastern Europe.

I know a .... who claims to be descended from Mary, Queen of Scots
 
Paulinus

Paulinus

Joined Jan 2010
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I don't want to sabotage what could be great thread but a book I was recently reading on Edward III estimated that about 80% (off the top of my head) of all Britons were related to him in one way or other. I'm going to say Edward the III then with nothing better than specious stats to back me up!
 
Cicero

Cicero

Joined Dec 2009
7,829 Posts | 6+
Tennessee
My grandmother was a Holmes, and related to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Supreme Court Justice and Sr.- Physician and writer.
 
Cicero

Cicero

Joined Dec 2009
7,829 Posts | 6+
Tennessee
;)Must be thinking concretely Like I do often.;)

(psychology) Mental processes characterized by literalness and the tendency to be bound to the most immediate and obvious sense impressions, as well as by a lack of generalization and abstraction.

Sigh.. I should set my sites higher. I am satisfied with less.. a sign of poor self esteem.
 
Pedro

Pedro

Joined Mar 2008
17,260 Posts | 97+
On a mountain top in Costa Rica. yeah...I win!!
When I am dead I will be famous and a bunch of people will be related to me. Check back with Historum in fifty years.
 
Welsh History Buff

Welsh History Buff

Joined Jan 2010
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Ffosyffin, Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
In a rather indirect manner, yes. My grandmother's grandfather was often stopped in the streets of Canterbury, England where he was born and asked for his autograph (as people always confused him for Charles Dickens)
 
Cicero

Cicero

Joined Dec 2009
7,829 Posts | 6+
Tennessee
Patito de Hule said:
My gt. gt. grandfather made a killing selling bogus stocks in an Arizona goldmine.
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The ancestral home, in Texas has a store room papered in worthless Arizona mining stocks! Patito, we need to talk:mad:

Interesting topic, one of my many collections is currency, stock and bond certificates. I have a USCW Confederate War Bond, a railroad bond certificate from Imperialist Russia of Nicholas II, and a stock certificate from International Mercantile Marine company, the parent company of the White Star Line of Titanic fame. I also have lots and lots of old currency. I should post some... any one interested?
 
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beorna

Joined Jan 2010
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the name of my family is coming from frankish nobility and it goes back to the early 6th century. The oldest one was a saint and it is said he was a relative of Clovis. The Merovingians are descendants of a bistea Neptuni Minotaurus similis, which I identify with the God Fry or Ing. And of course there is the myth, that descendants of Jesus are in the lineage of the Merovingians. Funny.
Unfortunatey all this is probably not true. :)
 
tjadams

tjadams

Joined Mar 2009
25,361 Posts | 13+
Texas
A genealogist once told me I was related, on my father's side, to a conquistador who travel with Cortes invading Mexico.
 
Son of Cathal

Son of Cathal

Joined Oct 2008
4,313 Posts | 7+
The Bright Center of the Universe
I'm related to Richard Branson somehow through my mum's side of the family (I really need to hunt down my family tree). My great great grandfather served as Sir John Monash's batman during the First World War and remained close mates afterwards...including the womanising aspect.
 
crossroadclarence

crossroadclarence

Joined Oct 2007
8,433 Posts | 0+
Borneo~ that big Island in S.E. ASIA
Crash Davis (from the American baseball movie "Bull Durham") was my uncle....and he was nothing like Kevin Costner.
 
NewModelSoldier

NewModelSoldier

Joined Oct 2009
5,021 Posts | 12+
Vancouver
Well he could probably act better then Costner, for a start I imagine!

My family has a very long military tradition, so I'm sure I'm related to a hero or two.
 
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