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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Captain Mew on August 23, 2008, 01:43:25 am
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On my mom's side of the family way back apparently I'm related to Marcus Aurelius and my second cousin on my dad's side is (I guess was) John Holmes, but he died roughly a year before I was born, due to AIDS.
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i have a direct ancestry to president andrew johnson
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I am going to blow this topic apart with TERENCE BUTLER. According to my dad he's his second cousin.
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My Great-Grandpa wrote like, 20 books, and my uncle played drums for Billy Joel for a little while. That's about it.
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my grandmother on my mom's side's maiden name was james, and i think jesse james was her grandfather or great uncle or something. so that would make him my great great grandfather//great great great uncle. also my dad's dad was reasonably well known in nigeria as like an ARISTOCRAT but i don't think he was famous.
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my ancestor was emperor huang di in china. i'm probably descended from one of his cheap prostitutes, though. it explains why my family lived in poverty until my dad got to go to college.
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The most famous people I am directly related to are Chang and Eng Bunker, who were two circus freaks. They had like 25 kids between the two of them and I always get invitations to Bunker family reunions in the mail. Apparently like 5,000 people show up to them.
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Years back, the brother of one of the members of The Arcade Fire (and dunno if Final Fantasy too) used to post here.
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Fuck you guys I would have a field day with autographs.
My great great great whatever granduncle (I think) is this dude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Leslie_Mackay
Too bad I didn't inherit his Caucasian genes tho.
Apparently my mom's ancestor was a prince from Sri Lanka who went to China for vacation. Than apparently his father or whoever took the throne and he was forced to stay in China. My parent's aren't sure, it's probably a bunch of bullshit, but mi madre says she lived in the same house or some shit. It's all balony.
Well, up until I was 6 years old Notorious B.I.G. was my neighbor. Also my uncle says he knew Akira Kurosawa because his best friend worked on his movies and also won cannes. I think he's lying.
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Years back, the brother of one of the members of The Arcade Fire (and dunno if Final Fantasy too) used to post here.
wait
what? who?
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I am distantly related to Tom Sutton aka Sean Todd, who inked and penciled for Marvel Comics for some years. And one of my maternal uncles was Minister of National Defense for a year.
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My dad's cousin or something is Jane Torville. Olympic gold medal winning ice skater, y'know Torville and Dean.
That's all :(
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When I was young, I overheard a "secret adult conversation" (you know, when you're supposed to be sleeping, haha) about my horse thief ancestors. I guess that's... Infamous!
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David Cook (American Idol 8) is actually a very distant cousin of mine, according to my mom.
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I got an uncle (my fathers elder brother) who's a radio personality, he's got a unique deep voice and people are all over it and he's been in the bizz for like forever now. Since I live on a small island with like, max population of 800000 people, (and everyone listens to the radio) he's famous no matter WHERE I go, and we all have the same last name too (which is also a name NO ONE ELSE HAS ON THE ENTIRE ISLAND), people always make connections, (are you related???)
One thing I like is how wherever he goes, he always gets shit for free, (like vodafone recently gave him a $1800 nokia fone for free).
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wait
what? who?
alexander or alex or al or something i think
i remember posting a topic in music when i was a new member about a final fantasy concert and apparently some gw member is the brother of owen pallet from final fantasy/arcade fire.
edit: iirc he wasn't really a member of the arcade fire but he contributed violin to a lot of the songs and final fantasy was like his thing
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My nannas sisters daughter is in direct relation to sir isaac newton so... You feeling the gravity of my situation?
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Years back, the brother of one of the members of The Arcade Fire (and dunno if Final Fantasy too) used to post here.
Yeah I remember this. I'm pretty sure it was Owen Pallett becuase I remember him mentioning that he played Violin.
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So my family has millions of different genes or whatever because apparently they liked to breed with whatever they could!
Way back on my mom's grandpas side, there is William Wallace (that's right the guy who liberated Scotland!!) and also Sir William Lockhart(Luccard/Locard) who apparently brought King Richard or someone's heart back from the crusades?? (I checked wikipedia I guess it was just some Robert the Bruce fella whoever that is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockharts_of_Lee)
Also, less far back on the same tree is the guy who invented futon couches (but a dirty Jew stole the copyright and got rich). Ironically, my grandfather married a Jew and their children decided to be Jews themselves until everyone but me converted to Christianity a couple years ago.
I don't know any other famous people but my Grandmother on my father's side owns the local garbage company (it's pretty big and she's pretty rich but she hates us!!)
So there you have it, my bloodline is very colorful with all kinds of ethnicities and stuff.
EDIT: also an aunt of some sort played a role in Lost in Space (old tv series, maybe cameo in newer movie too?) Jane Lockhart I think her name was. I think her daughter is an actress too.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sikma
Everybody with the last name Sikma is actually related to me without a doubt. It's an extremely uncommon name, and my dad has researched it extensively and was able to trace everybody who has it.
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I'm probably related by a long shot to Celine Dion since we have the same last name and come from the same region.
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Famous, no. Infamous, yes. First, I'm descended from a bastard who became a knight wearing black armor who was vicious and merciless. Then, a bastard from the bloody De La Force family who fled to England during the French Revolution.
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I think I was related to a duke of Wells but I'm pretty sure he's long dead now
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My grandfather was in the O.S.S. during World War II and was a member of the team that stormed Mussolini's office while he was being hung in a town square.
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I'm possibly related somehow to some welsh classical composer... and an artist. But not completely sure.
I was in the same class and know the nephew of the singer Shirley Strachan, lead singer in a famous Australian band Skyhooks, the song most people would recognize is "horror movie" so sad, he died in a helicopter crash in 2001 :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CANpDwKbBd8&feature=related lol, imaging being related to someone who dressed like that.
Just to add a little more does anyone know people who are related to famous people?
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.ewestlund.com/pushingPosesBlog/busterKeaton_stoneFace.jpeg)
nice try though
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Ugh I misspelt her first name in my original post, but here's wikipedia entry anyways for non-brits who don't know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Torvill.
I suspect there may be more on my dad's side (hard to find out about my mothers' since her mother was an evaquee during WW2 and only found out about her original family on her last year alive :( ) but I haven't actually heard anything else Apart from a few mega-millionaires and whatnot.
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I'm a Newfoundlander so as most People with my last name came from either Ireland or Scotland, and where one of the first few Family names to come here. Somewhere along the line, Relatives of mine where both with John (Giovanni) Cabbot, and Leif Erikson (Erik the Red)'s Main crews when Newfoundland, and thus North America was discovered!
Also There's Speculation that the Laehy ( A different spelt version of my last name, but of the same family) From Scotland where Descendants of Vllad the Impaler.
So yeah. My descendants help found North America, TWICE! and I might be related to a mass murdering psychopath from Transylvania.
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My great great uncle Nick was a pirate. Kazantzakis mentions him in one of his books, I think.
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I am going to blow this topic apart with TERENCE BUTLER. According to my dad he's his second cousin.
I would like to elaborate in case anyone missed this that he is usually known as Geezer.
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I would like to elaborate in case anyone missed this that he is usually known as Geezer.
Does he come to your family reunions? If not, then I think William Wallace outclasses 'Geezer'.
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Does he come to your family reunions? If not, then I think William Wallace outclasses 'Geezer'.
Does Wallace? ;)
I have never been to a family reunion so that point is moot!
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Does Wallace? ;)
I have never been to a family reunion so that point is moot!
Well, Wallace is a)dead and b)hero of Scotland and c) mel gibson
Geezer is a) heavy metal band
But hey, being related to one of the members of Black Sabbath is pretty cool! Try to get his autograph and sell it on eBay for mad ducats :fogetshifty:
Outclassed. I win :fogetbackflip:
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I do not have any famous relatives as far as I know, and frankly, I don't really care that much.
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I do I go about looking into my family tree?
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Everybody with the last name Sikma is actually related to me without a doubt. It's an extremely uncommon name, and my dad has researched it extensively and was able to trace everybody who has it.
That's the same with my last name, it is very rare. My last name is German, and it's "Salzler", which is like salt something I believe. I don't like telling my last name, but anyways.
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My dad was the marquis de sade.
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well, i'll post some stuff directly off the geneology study i obtained from my grandma's house.
my great-great-great-.....-grandmother was Pocahontas's husbands' brother's sister. so, Pocahontas's sister-in-law.
on my mother's father's mother's side, my family is directly descended from the Pettus family line, which contains some notable people. John Pettus was knighted for "outstanding loyalty to his country". a few generations later, William Pettus became one of the first people from England to set foot on America as an original colonist of Jamestown.
on my father's mother's side, we come from the Terrells, after whom Terrell, Texas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell,_Texas) was named. they were mostly Norwegian, with a bit of English.
my mother's mother's family contained the McKittricks from Ireland. also, my great-great-great-great-great grandmother on this side was 100% Native American, and she married an American who came from England.
my mother's father's father's side was made up of infamous thieves, bartenders, and bouncers. they were very rough people. however, many of the people in this family line, including my grandpa, were part of the Freemasons. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry)
and finally, on my fathers' father's side of the family, there were many artists. for hundreds of years, it had been tradition to name your first born son something that started with an "A", and also give them the middle name "John". that tradition ended with my father (Thomas John (whose name is Tom Krusz, haha)), but started again with my oldest brother, Alexander John. all the people had been named things like Arthur, August, Augustus, Alexander, Aaron, Aiden, etc... but my grandpa said, "the minute we saw your father, we knew he wasn't the type of person to follow traditions. we decided not to name him an "A" name at the last minute, right when he was born." my grandpa was right. every first born male had become an artist down to my grandpa. my dad became a computer security guy.
also, my friend Allee's grandparents are the Irwins. her cousin was Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter. also, steve irwin looks exactly like his grandma. disturbingly so. she lives a few blocks away from me.
so yeah thats about all i have to say uhhhhh
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A former prime minister.
Also, that former prime minister's secretary. Dad's 1st cousin I think.
I am not kidding
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My dad was the marquis de sade.
i really wish my father was marquis de sade
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One of my mother's cousins was a backup singer to various Italian singers/performers such as Frank Sinatra and marquee performer in his own right in Steubenville around the time that Dean Martin (or as my mom's family calls him, Dino Crocetti) became really popular. He was a pretty slick cat and we have some sweet autographed photographs of him with some pretty legendary jazz musicians and its pretty cool. He was one swarthy dago though gatdam
yeah his name was Gene Arcade, but apparently he must not have been much other than a regional performer because google searching only pulls in some very obscure references on 50s and 60s music archive webpages. and image search is worthless.
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my grandmother on my mom's side's maiden name was james, and i think jesse james was her grandfather or great uncle or something. so that would make him my great great grandfather//great great great uncle. also my dad's dad was reasonably well known in nigeria as like an ARISTOCRAT but i don't think he was famous.
If that is the case, then we are partly related. I'm related to Jesse James from my mother's side. This has been confirmed to me from numerous members of my family.
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My dad is Samuel L Jackson.
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If that is the case, then we are partly related. I'm related to Jesse James from my mother's side. This has been confirmed to me from numerous members of my family.
Doesn't this mean that you and your family are the product of inbreeding?(im pretty sure james married his direct cousin and had three children with her)
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owned
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owned
:fogetlaugh: :fogetlaugh: :fogetlaugh:
he totally got pwnz0red lmao
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Doesn't this mean that you and your family are the product of inbreeding?(im pretty sure james married his direct cousin and had three children with her)
He only had two!
And you are telling me you wouldn't bop your cousin? :fogetnaughty:
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My grand dad is more like an important person, rather than a famous one.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Padilla_Segura (spanish wikipedia omg)
My favorite of his accomplishments (he has many) is his Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) medal.
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My family is not famous and I really don't care about it, since one of my friends is pretty closely related to President Bush. I would really shoot myself it that was my case. I really don't want to be the one carrieng his genes.
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My family is not famous and I really don't care about it, since one of my friends is pretty closely related to President Bush. I would really shoot myself it that was my case. I really don't want to be the one carrieng his genes.
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Not that I know of, but I'm going to be a famous relative one day.
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my great-great-great-.....-grandmother was Pocahontas's husbands' brother's sister. so, Pocahontas's sister-in-law.
i like how you put "brother" in there like it makes a difference
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Well it could mean "brother" in the street sense of the word, like she is related to a good friend of pocohontas' husband.
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A friend of mine swears that he is the distant cousin of Steve Vai and that another member of his family has one of Vai's original Ibanez guitars from his childhood.
I'm just a no good beat down fool.
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ron paul is my uncle
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Gary Cooper is my uncle, but that's just his name he's not the actor.
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alexander or alex or al or something i think
i remember posting a topic in music when i was a new member about a final fantasy concert and apparently some gw member is the brother of owen pallet from final fantasy/arcade fire.
edit: iirc he wasn't really a member of the arcade fire but he contributed violin to a lot of the songs and final fantasy was like his thing
No way! Man, ...Has A Good Home is a brilliant CD. We should get him back here.
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:words: Steubenville :words:
Steubenville?! :laugh: [/obscure movie reference]
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My great aunt is La Bolduc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bolduc)
:fogetcool:
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I know very little of my biological extended family, but I hear my ancestor was some famous forester or something.
Uninteresting I know.
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My great aunt is La Bolduc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bolduc)
:fogetcool:
Christ, man, you are royalty because she was the Queen of Canadian Folksingers!
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Apparently a long way back I'm related to William Clark (you know, Lewis and Clark)
The fact that I have an uncle named William Clark is not as impressive.
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im famous, so who needs relatives?
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Wish I knew my line of ancestors So I would know if I'm really related to some famous McGregor's also dose my ancestors track back to the Gergor clan or also know as MaCgregor.
To bad most of my Dad's side of the family is dead Including my dad. now theres only Me, my bor and my cus With McGregor in there name.
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I had a great grandfather or something on my mother's side who was from germany
and whose name was Adolf. Don't know his surname though. :hmm:
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/James_Longstreet.jpg/200px-) (http://www.team-captin.com/art/RainingMad.gif)
Gen. James Longstreet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_James_Longstreet) J.S. Longstreet (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/pdp/profile/A11H85WKLU0R2O)
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Bet DS will post "i'm twin with the famous ramirez" or vice versa...
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Apparanty i'm related to the owners of the kosher restaruant blooms in whitechapple and goldersgreen. Also im not related to Boris becker but there is a possiblity that i am, we just don't know.
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my cousin is lavarre arington who's some dude that used to play for the redskins (i think they traded him... obviously i've never met the dude in person). my mother also dated eddie murphey in middle school.
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my mother also dated eddie murphey in middle school.
Really?
Also I'm Che Guevara
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My friend's grandmother dated Al Pacino.
I want that motherfucker's autograph so baddddddddddddddddddd
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Really?
Also I'm Che Guevara
oh your that guy with the red face on a black shirt that every teenager and college dork wears?
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Isn't he dead?
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My late grandfather's (On my dad's side.) second wife remarried to the brother of the man who owns the Marriot hotel chain.
Does that count?
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There is a distant link between my family and the founders of the Coleman mustard company, so nothing special.
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Charlemagne.
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My twin brother is Illidan Stormrage, the Betrayer.