Are you related to historical figures?

[mstem]

A family member traced my dad's mother's family back to Scotland. They arrived at Jamestown in 1609. I am related to Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC, who was awarded both the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

 

[rock doc]

I'm also related to the Van Tassel Family on my mother's side, made famous by Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving used many locals and places in his book and he is buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Arminius, Herrmann the German.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I may or may not be kin to some folks at Jamestown.
If not, my folks arrived a little later and went a short distance up the James River.
We have been going up the river ever since, off and on.
My Mother's family arrived early and went to the North side of the Chesapeake as in Maryland.
They were replicating nicely there prior to 1700. Some of them are still there.

 

[gunnails]

My Grandma on my fathers side maiden name is Hatfield, She was from West Virginia. She wasn't born till 1898 so she missed out on most of the shenanigans with the McCoys.

She was a great lady and has had a huge influence on my life.

 

[Mule Packer]

My great-great grandfather, David D. Sullivan, while on sentry duty during the War Between the States, shot Frank James in the leg. They were both from Missouri, but my grandfather was from a Missouri Union Infantry unit. Obviously, Frank wasn't. Apparently, he recognized Frank. This was later documented in some movie that was made in the '30's. My only claim to fame, minor though it is.

My wife, on the other hand, is related to Porter Rockwell. I guess that explains why she's so darn tough.

Porter Rockwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Arik]

Isn't one out of every 200 people on the planet a descendent of Atila the Hun?

 

[mac2]

OK: the mac in my user name is my initials. The C is for Coughlin.

Early last year, my dad got a letter from a cousin who'd been doing some genealogy. Turns out Mary "Mae" Coughlin who married Al Capone in 1919 was my great aunt...

Mae Capone

 

[scooter123]

My family line is descended from Thomas Warne, a Proprietor of the New Jersey Colony. Also have Benjamin Rush as an ancestor along with Cristian Sharps as a cousin of an ancestor. Funny thing about it all is that when my sister did the qualification study for membership in the DAR she found out that most of my family tree was composed of either Timbermen or Cabinet Makers, up to my father who owned a door manufacturing plant.

 

[PA Reb]

I have several notables in my personal lineage but few who are well known.

Not trying to hijack the OP's thread but I thought y'all might be interested in this page > AdamLineage . This guy actually documents himself from the present day to Adam and Eve! He told me once via email that it's really quite easy to do if you can tie yourself to old European royalty which then allows you to go back using the Bible. I really have no idea if that can actually happen I but find it interesting.

 

[bushmaster1313]

After the flooding brought on by the global climate change resulting from Man's insult to God, we are all descended from Russell Crowe.

 

[federali]

Not Quite

I have no direct famous or infamous ancestors but my nephew married into the family of Walt Whitman's mother and I went to high school with a great-great-great, or more, granddaughter of President Franklin Pierce.

 

[Wyo]

My ancestors were pretty much all bog Irish, Catholic on one side and Protestant on the other. One bunch from Belfast, the other from Donegal. They all had to come to this country to learn how to get along together. I married way above my station, though. My wife traces her ancestors to the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1630 and a Deacon Samuel Bass that finally died at Braintree in about 1690. The Texas outlaw, Sam Bass, was part of the family as well. Her family history makes for some interesting reading!

 

[ColbyBruce]

Yes. I believe he made lawnmower engines.

He made a dang mess here in Georgia!

 

[Chromedhearts]

My sister traced our paternal lineage back to a fellow
named John Chandler who came ashore at Jamestown Va in 1609.
Not famous but I thought interesting.

 

[ky wonder]

my paternal family name originated in Normandy, the first of our line to leave the area was a soldier with William the conquer, of Normandy, that took the English crown in the mid 1060's , he was given a title and land in what is now north east England and along the Scottish border

throughout several generations they were in and out of favor with the various crown heads of Briton and the church that resulted n some hi-jinx that left some of our ancestors drawn and quartered (like in the movie brave heart),
http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/William_De_Lisle_(1485-1528)

the family after this period retreated into Scotland, and then to northern Ireland, thus here to the us in the late 1600's

in the early 1700,s the family was in what is today Lexington VA and was founders of the timber ridge church that is now in its 269th year of assistance, read the third paragraph about the original log church, and on at the bottom about the upbringing of Sam Houston
Our History
from there the family migrated into what is now south central ky, being listed as one of the builders of the old court house in greensburg

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_yl...se+photos&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-104&fp=1

the family name got Americanized when it went back and forth from Lisle,Lyle and finnaly in this area when the us postal service was looking for a name for the new post office on Greasy creek and when asked what families lived near and was told Lisle he wrote the name down as liletown thus we went from lisle to lyle to lile

the family like others continued to migrate into the west with branches all the way to California

some honorable men others notorious horse thives and such

we have ancestors that have fought in every war that this nation has seen, never really been listed in the great names of history, but there in the midst of it all for the last 1000 years

 

[the ringo kid]

I am a direct descendent of a man who was part of the British contingent that fought the French at Fort William Henry in Lake George, NY (the big fort used as the backdrop for Last of the Mohicans, the battle itself was real). One of my relatives was married to Abraham Snay, the last surviving member of the Union troops that surrounded and killed John Wilkes Boothe in Dr. Mudd's barn.

Speaking of which, I noticed yesterday that it was finally released as a single movie and not the expensive John Ford set it had previously only been available in. Its a movie about the capture of Booth and is called: Prisoner of Shark Island. Im ordering it next week as a matter of fact.

 

[Smoke]

I am related by blood to Jesus Christ

 

[Gripgrabber]

My dad's mother,

Was a Mitchell, her first cousin was Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, born nov. 8 1900. She wrote Gone with the Wind.

 

[JH1951]

I share a branch on the family tree with one of the "Blue Eyed Six", which is really nothing to brag about. But it is an interesting story that you can Google in your spare time.