Do you have any famous relatives?

[beautifulfish]

Does anyone her have a famous relative? I guess the most famous of mine is Jefferson Davis. YA! GO Confederates!:D...also go yanks!:D...well..if you don't know who that is then I'll tell you! Davis was the Confederate President during the Civil War(I LOVE books and movies about the Civil War!). OOOO YA! I also forgot about my royal relatives. They lived back in the 1200's so it is distant but I still think it is COOL! My father used to do all that stuf to find out who we are related to. My family is related to Queen Elizabeth(which means Prince Charles..ew) but VERY VERY VERY distantly! lol..oh well..still it's cool!

oh ya! one of my 3-4 cousins works for Bill Gates. He has a mansion himself :thud:

[pophead]

well apparently william of orange is my forefather. if that's a good thing.

[tomm10]

well apparently william of orange is my forefather. if that's a good thing.

Not to an Irishman its not :sad:

How's this for reaching; the actor Richard Libertini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508844/) is a distant cousin of mine. I don't know the technical terminology for how it relates to me but I think he's a second cousin of my dad's. He's probably best known as the editor in "Fletch", the crazy dictator in "Deal of the Century", and the guru in "All of Me"

T

[nursie]

Heard Jeff Davis's last home..the one in New Orleans is gone now.

Betsy Ross is supposedly one of mine.

[beautifulfish]

tomm don't be mean to Irishmen! I'm Irish myself! They are awesome! I wish I had their accent...

[Chill]

My great-grandfather's long underwear are in the Canadian Museum of Civilization is that worth anything?

[beautifulfish]

lol CHILL! that's hilarious!:D

[Emg]

Beautifulfish...we could be related.....my family name is Buck on my father's side.....came from Norfolk England way back in the 1500s.....Buck was shortened from Buckingham... :D

My dad's family has been in the states since 1623 and settled in Ct. A group of them formed up and moved to Pennsylvania...(Buck's county)...so...I don't know if that counts for famous or not....lol....I guess Buck is a pretty common name in some parts.

[YoFishboy]

My great-grandfather's long underwear are in the Canadian Museum of Civilization is that worth anything?


Did they wash them first?

[sumthin fishy]

My dad played guitar for the Greg Kin Band in the 70's. My Sister was on who wants to be a millionare, and My uncle steve worked on the animation for "Scubbung Bubbles"

[beautifulfish]

lol..I don't know if we are related to any bucks or not..my great-grandma's maiden name is Bush...too bad I'm not related to Pres. bush...that would be awesome! I've seen him in person too! and Laura!:P:P:P:P

[OrionGirl]

My aunt married one of the Dupont grandchildren. He was a really amazing man that passed away 2 years ago from cancer. His mother is still alive--close to 100, still rowed out to go fishing a few times a week.

[nursie]

My great-grandfather's long underwear are in the Canadian Museum of Civilization is that worth anything?
:bowing: :bowing: :bowing: :bowing: It's gotta be!! No one ever came up to me and wanted to put my great grandfather's underwear in a museum

[OrionGirl]

Dare I even ask what else is in the Canadian Museum of Civilization?!? Should I tell my sister to plan on visiting there when she tours through next week?

[Chill]

Dare I even ask what else is in the Canadian Museum of Civilization?!? Should I tell my sister to plan on visiting there when she tours through next week?

I can't say if your sister should visit or not I've never been there. Here's their site:
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibeng.html
What part of Canada is she touring through?

[OrionGirl]

Honestly don't know. She's meeting with my aunt, who I know came in through Montana, but I don't know if they were going east or west from there.

[odiechef]

my uncle for a while dated, well was good friends with at least ;) ;) , a daughter or granddaughter of the Dole (pineapple people) family.

Man what a stretch :hang:

[labont865]

All you Nascar fans will know two of mine. I am related to Terry and Bobby LaBonte. I also have a sister who is a fairly popular model. And a Sister in-law who is a very popular Enlgish model.

[judgemax]

i had to giggle bf- i am related to the bush's as in the president! my grand father was a bush and they are like third cousins! ...my family (fathers side hailed from germany,and when my mom went there she was touring some historic cemeterys and castles ect ect...well she was in a cemetary and found a head stone that had my full name and the birth date except for the year was 1779...200 years before me ...the date of death creaps me out cause i wonder since everything else is so similar ..if it could have been my reincarnation!...creepy!)

orion girl, have you ever been to de? theres an awesome dupont home there telling the sordid story about the dupont fortune and family...its called winterthur, it was actually one of the homes owned by ..henry? dupont i think! my mom works for the dupont co. so we toured it like 700 times!

[beautifulfish]

that's awesome judgemax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOu are really lucky!:)...Jefferson Davis is pretty cool though too. Once my dad thought that we were related to Robert E. Lee which would have made us related to George Washington by marriage!!!! Well, that mystery sis still not solved..:(

[Holly9937]

I have a 2nd or 3rd cousin who was in alot of western movies, but I hate them and can never remember the guys name. One of the movies is always on tv and if I'm with my dad he has to remind me that we are related to the guy, like I haven't heard the story a hundred times already :D !! Its become a "I used to have to walk 20 miles to school" kind of story

[sublime1184]

my cousin is friends with this dude who met this other guy who has a neighbor who (get this, you are gonna freak) knows a guy's brother that once was in the presence of Sean Connery.... http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/style_emoticons/default/buttrock.gif hell yeah! so by six degrees of seperation, Sean is my long lost cousin! :confused: I think...dam, I need to call Kevin Bacon and find out how that works... besides that, I got nothin...

[OrionGirl]

iorion girl, have you ever been to de? theres an awesome dupont home there telling the sordid story about the dupont fortune and family...its called winterthur, it was actually one of the homes owned by ..henry? dupont i think! my mom works for the dupont co. so we toured it like 700 times!

Nope. When Donny died, my aunt sold the property they'd built in ME, and I know the rest of the family is...Not really on friendly terms with her. His side of the family is the Ross side. There was a lot of bitterness when he died--my aunt was his third wife. She still lives in the house he bought in Vail CO, and I have been there. It's a really nice place--more stairs than I want for my old age, though!

[Watcher74]

I'm a direct descendent of Daniel Morgan's brother.

No idea who that is, eh?

He was the general that led the American Colonists to defeat Banastre Tarleton’s battle-hardened force of British regulars at the Battle of the Cowpens.

The historic battle that is considered the turning of the revolutionary war in the colonist's favor.

Another no name ancestor who was part of Steven F Austin's originial 300 to settle in what is now Texas.

That's all I've got.

But my wife is the direct descendent of Stephen Vincent Benet who wrote "The Devil and Daniel Webster".

[beautifulfish]

:thud: watcher that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew who those people were:D:D:D:D..I LOVE learning about Wars! :D:D:D

[tomm10]

tomm don't be mean to Irishmen! I'm Irish myself! They are awesome! I wish I had their accent...

Uumm, I wasn't being mean to Irishmen. I'm Irish too FWIW. My comment was that Sir William of Orange is not exactly a friend of the Irish. He was the man who invaded Ireland and brought it under English control.

T

[beautifulfish]

oh! poo him then!..lol!:D

[Lila]

No. But soon my relatives will have a famous relative... Me!

;)

[greeneyedlady]

my husband is related to William the Conqueror and Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester during Henry the 8th, he wasn't a big supporter of all of Henry's divorces and such but he knew when to keep his trap shut for self preservation ;)
I'm related to the Burch family, the one that own's Burch Oil in southern Maryland, other than that it's anybody's guess

[HomerJay]

I'm related to John Hancock on my mothers side. and I think I had some relatives on my Father's side come over on the Mayflower...

[zacdl]

Jeanne Tripplehorn here.

[spongebobson]

Would it count that my greatgrandfather was president of my country, Peru?

[Emg]

Well, I know the guy who played the waiter in the movie.."In Good Company"...my son works for his mom and dad doing yard work and stuff. Used to go to church with them. He was a teenager and would sit in the pew with his long blond hair hanging over his eyes...lol..I think he was napping....

But no....we aren't related and he isn't actually very famous...lol......yet...

[zacdl]

I dont know if you count this guy as famous but what about Professor William Thompson????

[zacdl]

What about a German general? I am related to one distantly (He is dead now though)

[Tetras_Rule33]

Olympic swimmer Danielle Campeau is related on my dads side of the family. My brother is an Indy Pro Wrestler around Canada Ontario and places in U.S.

[beautifulfish]

haha everybody! My dad knew someone at work that was an extra in the movie Hildago!:D...don't know who the guy is though! So I said to my friend....my dad worked with a guy who was in Hildago who saw Viggo Morteson(sp.?) who met Orlando Bloom..LOL!:D

[zacdl]

Vigo? He plays Aaragorn on Lord of the Rings.

[OrionGirl]

Hmmm, if we're extending past relatives...I know several people who were extras in Starship Troopers. Much of it was filmed outside Casper, and the casting call was for people to play dead bodies in the taken outpost. :) Highlight of their acting career, playing a splattered corpse.

[beautifulfish]

welll...my uncle was an off broadway actor till he died in 1989...met a lot of famous people..My dad saw the OLD Tom Sawyer movie being taped..lol...I saw Pres. Bush, Laura Bush, Tom Daschel, and alot of other Republins and Dems. lol..it was neat! I even met the governor of SD and shook his hand..later he was put in jail for manslaughter!:eek:

[slipknottin]

My grandmothers brother was nominated for the nobel prize.- John Hubble
I cant prove that of course, as nobel does not release the nomination list until like 100 years after the deaths of everyone on it. Er, get back to me in like 120 years or so. :(

[beautifulfish]

that's funny:D

[Chill]

My sister got to be an extra and run out on the wharf screaming in the movie Orca: The Killer Whale starring Bo Derek. Shortly after when the movie "10" came out a 16 year old Chill was wondering why he wasn't on the wharf that day.

[beautifulfish]

does knowing a ex FBI agent count? lol

[nursie]

Well gee...they filmed "In the Heat of the Night"...the movie with Sidney Poiter in my hometown of Sparta Il in the '60's. It was supposed to be set in Mississippi, but the filmmakers thought the deep south wasn't ready to handle something like that. There were a lot of townspeople we knew as extras and I remember being in a crowd at night when they were filming on a dark street next to my grandparents house. The people that owned the International dealership were friends of my parents and their dealership was in it, and their daughter had a part as an extra.

And..my uncle is an engineer who invented some do-hickey on a tractor for International Harvestor and it's in the Smithsonian :D (He's in his 80's..it was a long time ago..)

[beautifulfish]

OH! I have lived in the same town as one of the original members of the OLD tv shoe"Our Gang"...old Little Rascals. He was Porky I think...

[Jessu]

I know I am bringing back a old thred..found it intresting

I think I am related to the guy who drew the mountains for paroumont pictures..His name is Dario Campanile.

I am related to al copne..He is like my great 4th cousion or something.

[daayda3]

our familily is related to joan of arch of how... my uncle want WAY back...:cool:

[76Explorer]

Eddie Albert is my 3rd cousin!

[fish23]

My wifes Aunt is the ex wife of VonOpel (I think thats his name) owner of opel automobiles, she is totally loaded!!!
also I went to Jr. High with Dax Shepperd (Employee of the Month,Without a paddle) he used to ride my bus, back then it was Dexter Shepperd. Also have played hockey with Joe Kocher, Bob Probert, Mike Madono, Pat Lafontaine. Thats as close to celebrity as I can do.

[Dangerdoll]

my other half's cousin is married to a Benetone, they live in Italy. We saw her last April for a few weeks.

[Dixon]

my cousin is an actress and she did stop for a while but is acting again now.
she was also a playgirl her name is Rachelle Whaley

here is her filmography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923518/

i also have a cousin who was in the Olympics and although did not get a medal she came fifth in the final
not much info on her but here you go
http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=2565

i am also related to Lord Boyle of Ireland apparently

[aardvark1]

Related to John Sutter, owner of the mill in California were gold was discovered; he also owned Sutters Fort in Sacramento.

[danzig]

my aunt was (still is?) friends with the guy who played Lando Calrissian on Star Wars lol. thats as close as it gets for me

[kjr928]

I'm famous, but unfortunately I won't tell you my real name!

[Squawkbert]

Mary, Queen of Scotts (Down with the Tudors & Windsors!).

[ILOVEBETTAS]

Oliver Perry, a civil war general.

[fish_freak]

Well My family used to own an island in the bahama's and ran a bannana plantation there untill the spanish american war. After that they where just rich NYC ariitocrats who blew the family fortune. Some where I have a copy of the family tree my great aunt did and on my moms moms side of the family we came over on the mayflower if that counts. Also some how or another on my maternal grandfathers side of the family Im related to the guy that invented Pringle Chips. Thats about it for me. I have met other celebrities and what not but am not realted to any.

[jessicar613]

Here's a funny one. The music playing in the Slim Jim snap fairy commercials before the guy crashes his bike/snowboard/skateboard or whatever, is my husband's band. :p:

Oh and he was also an extra in the Doors movie. You can see him for about, one second.

We can't go anywhere now, the paparazzi you know... :rolleyes:

[rosita]

Heard Jeff Davis's last home..the one in New Orleans is gone now.

Betsy Ross is supposedly one of mine.

No way!!!! My great-grandmother was the "Betsy Ross of the Confederacy" She was @ 15/16 and already a highly accomplished seamstress. A Confederate officer heard about her and asked her to make a flag. I actually have an official certificate that documents me as a "Child of the Confederacy." I think it's the Second Confederate Official Flag you see on the link below, but it may be the Third; my father has a copy but it's all wrapped up. . .
And I'm related to Ellizabeth Barrett Browning . . . sigh. . . and my brother is married to a Canadian actress (they live in LA) and he designs totally cool sculptural lights based on Japanese aesthetic made of steel frames and Japanese papers and fabrics which he sells to famous people like Bruce Willis for thousands of thousands of dollars. . . I LOVE my anonymity!!!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/usflag/images/confed3.gif&imgrefurl=http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/usflag/flaghist.html&h=205&w=274&sz=4&hl=en&start=58&tbnid=o5bx3uCQ6ElZkM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dconfederate%2Bbattle%2Bflags%26start% 3D54%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26 ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26sa%3DN

[ILOVEBETTAS]

Oops, I meant War of 1812... well, he's famous

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry

[Chickieepooh2u]

Hmmm.... Lets see. I live in the home town of Johnny Carson. His Emmy's are 3 blocks away from me. LOL

I'm a great, great, great +++ yada ,yada grand daughter of the Levi Jeans guy. So think of me the next time you slip your jeans on. :dance2:

On the other side of the family, equally way back, our family owned the Meyer Diamond mine in Africa.

Think thats all. I've met way more famous people though.

[rosita]

Oh Chickieepoo, I'm glad I didn't know that this morning when I was getting dressed!!!!:dance2: Levi's are my fave jeans LOL.

[Malefic23]

I once had the great grandaughter of Daniel Boone work for me as a waitress. I was doing country club work up near Boone, NC, which is named for the same pioneer, and did'nt realize he left a large family up there.

As for being physically related to someone famous... Well no. I researched my family name all the way back to 1050 A.D. or so, and the best I can come up with is, my family name means "deformed man". Kinda a let down, but I now know how to make a racoon skin hat.

[fishcatch22]

I once had the great grandaughter of Daniel Boone work for me as a waitress. I was doing country club work up near Boone, NC, which is named for the same pioneer, and did'nt realize he left a large family up there.then she's distantly related to me! my (about 9 greats here) uncle was Daniel Boone.

[judgemax]

I am related to president bush, jr and sr. they are distant cousins of my grandfather.
my grandfather on my fathers side used to own like 7 blocks in N.Y.

iF it helps any though, I got to meet lauri white, billy ray cirus, garth brooks, and goldberg, andre the giant, macho man randy savage,miss elizabeth, and others, I have a pretty exstensive list of famous people i have met...

[LIBPA]

My Grandfather was one of Hitlers body gaurds.

[sublime1184]

I miss the original poster :rolleyes:

[USCavalry19d]

General John Bell Hood. Cavalry General in the Civil War said to have been one of the best generals of the time. Reason on why i decided to go into the military as Cavalry too. however Cavalry of his time and my time are totally different since now we dont ride on horses and basically do the recon work for units.

[Blueiz]

:OT:

This user brings back memories...lol...

I have no famous relatives to my knowledge..

Blue

[jm1212]

one of my teachers was related to John Wilkes Booth, the dude that shot Abe Lincoln


i dont know of any famous people im related too, but if i find anyhting else ill tell ya

BTW, how do you do one of those searches with your family name? do you just type it into google or do you have to go to some special site?

[judgemax]

I miss the original poster :rolleyes:

I knew someone was gonna say somethin! I really wanted to! roflmfao!

[Blueiz]

I knew someone was gonna say somethin! I really wanted to! roflmfao!

:OT:

LOL you two...she was a trip, or..wait a minute..was it a he?? How bout those triples..LMAO...k..gotta stop here or I wont be able to finish typing..LOL...

Blue

[judgemax]

I miss the original poster :rolleyes:


:OT:

LOL you two...she was a trip, or..wait a minute..was it a he?? How bout those triples..LMAO...k..gotta stop here or I wont be able to finish typing..LOL...

Blue

I had to try and explain her the other day in chat...they thought I wa nuts, cause alot of that was way before all their time! ...

[jm1212]

i was searching around and i found out that my family coat of arms has a fish on it, and so does my moms side of the family and my grandmothers sid eof the family. maybe its siginificant :D

and on my grandfathers side, there was a guy that served under William the Conqueror.

[Snake_Eyes]

I'm related to Melinda Clarke (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164918/) in some round about way thru marriage, I've never met her though. :(

[ddot]

my brother played pro football and my uncle coached college basketball

[jm1212]

yesterday i found out that i am related to Charlamagne, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. its not like he was a distant relative (i.e cousin's cousin's wifes grandfather's and so on and sso forth), i am directly related to him.

[lazyNode]

My sis is a gold digger and some of her current next door neighbours include Sharon Stone and Nicolas Cage. Leo Di Caprio just rented her beach house over the xmas period - something like US$60K for 2 weeks!
(thats something E! News hasn't heard yet)

My mum worked at an English hair dressing salon in the 60's and did hair for royalty and also Julie Andrews from Sound of Music. My dad was in the same uni course as Mike Jagger (rolling stones) - but Jagger dropped out to pursue his music career.

[Toirtis]

I can't say if your sister should visit or not I've never been there. Here's their site:
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibeng.html
What part of Canada is she touring through?


Speaking of the museum and relatives, this: http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/cardeng.html is my daughter's maternal grandfather....and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trudeau is her great, great uncle.


My direct paternal progenitors were the von Bülows that were the aristocracy of Prussia and later Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_von_B%C3%BClow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiherr_Dietrich_Heinrich_von_B%C3%BClow

Also, slightly less closely related to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_B%C3%BClow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_B%C3%BClow


So I guess I have a few relatively 'famous' relatives.

[legendaryfrog]

my third cousin is Jussi Oksanen.

she won a bronze at the x-games in '01.

[Chickieepooh2u]

yesterday i found out that i am related to Charlamagne, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. its not like he was a distant relative (i.e cousin's cousin's wifes grandfather's and so on and sso forth), i am directly related to him.

Then I guess we are sorta related. lol My Mother-in-law is a direct decendant of his also. lol

[jm1212]

Then I guess we are sorta related. lol My Mother-in-law is a direct decendant of his also. lol thats cool! :thm:

[bettagurl]

AC really is starting to be a family...:rolleyes:

[Spazm09]

ive been on TV twice. once i got to talk. does that count?

im not sure if this counts as a relative but here goes...

my cousin's cousin's brother in-law was the dude from A Knigt's Tale that had red hair. you know the one that always got pissed off. i dont know his name tho.


o ya and dennis rodman lived across the street from me about 12-13 years ago in Frisco, Tx. I played hide and go seek in his boat although i never met him. it was the boat he ran over that supermodel with on lake lewisville.

[fourtey54]

I am related to DON Calogero Vizzini, of the Sicilian Mafia, family severed ties with the whole bunch.


AND FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES THE LAST HOME OF JEFFERSON DAVIS IS NOT IN NEW ORLEANS, as stated by previous poster, (nursie), IT IS IN BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI, IF YOUR GOING TO USE HISTORICAL REFERENCES, USE THEM IN THE CORRECT MANNER

[billfish]

William Henry Harrison, and Benjmen Harrison, both U.S. presidents are reliatives on my Mothers side of the family.

[J double R]

my great great grandfather was seen hanging out with Jesse James. :)

[sumthin fishy]

I cant believe I forgot this. My sister is Diana Ross!!!!! lol

Thats really her name, by marraige, but shes not "the" diana ross. :p: