Really? How!?!?

[debilorrah]

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LOL! Yeah. I keep trying to form the line of geneology but I get lost between John Smith and Samuel Mather. British snobs we are though! HAHA!

 

[Tala]

My grand-father-in-law changed our name to what it is now to avoid going to jail for something serious. He still went to jail, and we still have the name. So no, we are NOT related to any of the other ________'s coz well, we just aren't. LOL

 

[okieglory]

haha my friends grandpa had a big park by my house named after him and shes also related to john wilks booth.... im scared of her jk.

 

[Miss Red]

I'm related to the woman who sewed the come-and-take-it flag... And the DeWitts who helped claim Texas.

 

[Laurajean]

I'm a genealogist, and found some interesting things when I did my own line. In more recent times, my grandfather was a rum runner and his father, my great grandfather had a mysterious life that involved "certain business dealings" with Joseph Kennedy said to be illegal, and a secret so big that he changed his (our) last name entirely and NO ONE knows why. I'm very good at what I do and I can't even figure out why we have a mysterious name change and cannot trace the line beyond him. All his families' records have been altered with conflicting facts, dates, places etc., in a clear attempt to not create a paper trail. He did very good covering whatever it was up!

On my mother's side, I have it traced back to the 1400's. My eleventh great grand-uncle was Governor John Winthrop, who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His niece, my tenth great grandmother was notorious in the Colony, for having three husbands, being self sufficient, and also accused of being a witch at one point. She later moved away from the Colony and help to found Greenwich, Connecticut. It was virtually unheard of at that time for a woman to own property, so this was a pretty big deal.

Well there's my claim to fame. Oh yeah, and my grandfather was a semi-famous organist in his time who had a radio show and who played organ at the funeral of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's daughter. He also abandoned my grandmother and her seven children to go live his "life of music".

So pretty interesting ties, but notice they all have some sort of scandal attached!? I feel it's my duty in life to do something really scandalous to keep up with the family tradition. I'm open to ideas. LOL.

 

[MaggieRae]

Sam Houston. He's my great-something grandmother Amanda's cousin.

I have some other relatives, but I'll have to look them up later. Sam Houston is the only one I recall immediately because I still remember whenever my Texas history teacher would talk about him, she would point at me.

"Sam Houston, over thar'..."

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

My great grandfather was a direct descendant of David Livingstone, of "Dr. Livingston I presume." and was an explorer in Africa. My great grandfather then also went on safari in africa in the 1940s and killed practically everything.

 

[sune42]

Man, I wish I could find cool stuff. I am not talented at doing that kind of research.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

One side of my family is from Sir Francis Drake.

The other side...not so much. Came here illegally (LONG time ago). My great-grandfather came over to work legally on the railroad, wound up his employer never gave him his paperwork. The GG (great-grandfather) must have gotten very angry because he killed a man while working on the railroad and high-tailed it to another town and made a life there.

Weird things...

 

[Mandalina]

That is cool!

My husband is related to the Hershey family thru his mom's side.Their last name is Mooma, or Moomaw, I dont remember correct spelling..but anywho I made a joke about them being the dairy part of the chocolate factory and my joke fell pretty flat, they all looked at me like "Ummmmm....."

I am only related to outlaws.