Are You Related to Historical Fiqures?

[Terry Soloman]

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[DizzyDigger]

A member of my extended family once told me they had done some research
into the family history. Said they found where some distant relative had gotten
himself hung for horse stealing. That when they stopped looking...

 

[BigWaveDave]

My mom for 30 years was a genealogical researcher for the Society of Mayflower Descendants. This was way before the internet. Spent my youth tagging along with her visiting libraries, town halls, and graveyards all throughout New England. So it turns out I’m related to 6 of the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. And because of that, I’m somehow related to the late Princess Dianna, something like 16th cousin. Also, I’ve got a great x 10 grandmother whose name was Preserved Fish.
Also, my Grandfathers name was Napoleon Bonaparte, but no relation to the French guy.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Traced my ancestry back to about 950 AD so far, I found several, most famous, or should say infamous, I am direct descendant of King John and a mistress, of all the Kings to be related to, it had to be the bad king and brother of King Richard The LionHearted. 😭

Where is my castle.🤬

 

[Mackaydon]

My dauther is reseraching her roots to verify tradition that she is a Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR member); related to one of the signors of the Declaration of Independence.
Don in SoCal

 

[Crow]

While most people can realistically reach the 17th or 18th century. While royal or noble lines can sometimes reach back to the 9th or 10th century, most ancestral research hits a, barrier around the 1500s due to record availability. For most ordinary people, the records of everyday people are obscure before 1700. However, birth, death, marriages, and christenings pre 1700 get harder to find after about 1500. However, aristocratic records of family trees, especially Anglo-Norman trees, compete for prestige in connection with the English Crown, and can be traced to descendants.

Sadly, I am not connected to anyone famous.

Crow

 

[mtdoramike]

I probably am if they were criminal's, pirates or thieves, that's why I don't go looking. Sometimes it's best not to know.

 

[AstralDruid]

Check this out... bit weird , but anyways... My Dad's side leads back to a queen (consort) of England, and my Mum's side to two, much more more recent, leaders of Irish republicanism... Mixed up stuff...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

While most people can realistically reach the 17th or 18th century. While royal or noble lines can sometimes reach back to the 9th or 10th century, most ancestral research hits a, barrier around the 1500s due to record availability. For most ordinary people, the records of everyday people are obscure before 1700. However, birth, death, marriages, and christenings pre 1700 get harder to find after about 1500. However, aristocratic records of family trees, especially Anglo-Norman trees, compete for prestige in connection with the English Crown, and can be traced to descendants.

Sadly, I am not connected to anyone famous.

Crow

You want King John, I can give him to you?

Most of my tracing is through marriage and death records, vast majority of my ancestors came from Ireland, Scotland and England who seem to have kept half way decent records through churches.

Traced to 1640 in America then hit a wall here, but able to trace in Europe further. It is through my mother's side that I found King John. I also found a direct ancestor has fought in every war back to 1750 so far.

The last battle in movie "The patriot" is actually 2 battles combined into one for movie, my ancestor fought for Colonial Army in both battles and survived.

 

[unclemac]

ancestry.com tells me I am a descendent of Odin and the Frost Giants!

 

[unclemac]

on a more serious note.... my children through their mother, have several ancestors from the 1700s that have Wikipedia articles, but they are folk you have never heard of. They were plantation owners, slave owners, Congressmen, Generals, military men in the Revolution and Confederacy.... on and on. One was named Menard, the first Lt. Gov. of Illinois, another was the second wife of William Clark.... All these people were "connected" with famous people, they knew them, they hosted them, etc. The funny thing is my wife was a Blackfeet tribal member from the reservation, born in a one room house with a dirt floor. But one white ancestor, (the son with no inheritance), made his way west in the mid 1800's ... and stayed.

 

[GravelTeeth]

Secretary of the Confederate Navy is the most notable one I'm aware of. Unfortunately large chunks of my family tree have never been documented and likely never will be.

--GT

 

[Crow]

You want King John, I can give him to you.?

Most of my tracing is through marriage and death records, vast majority of my ancestors came from Ireland, Scotland and England who serm to have kept half way decent records through churches.

Traced to 1640 in America then hit a wall here, but able to trace in Europe further. It us through my mother's side that I found King John. I also found a direct ancestor has fought in every war back to 1750 so far.

The last battle in movie "The patriot" is actually 2 battles combined into one for movie, my ancestor fought for Colonial Army in both battles and survived.

Hello Treasure Hunter

Here are some generations related to King John. John's generations. It appears you might even have a distant connection to Princess Diana.

King John decendants

Crow

 

[unclemac]

it is very true that most of you, if you can go back far enough, will be related to royalty somewhere. There was always the seventh son of the seventh son sort of thing, a man/woman with a family name as his/her only resource, SOMEONE would find THAT enough, (think merchant trying to move UP in the world).

 

[FreeBirdTim]

My mother's maiden name was Williams and she always said we were related to Roger Williams. Definitely possible, since he settled in Providence and my mother's family lived nearby in Smithfield for many generations.

 

[dowser]

Related to Goodyear out of Germany. No free tires, no blimp ride..

 

[Terry Soloman]

My 4th cousin eight times removed:
George Washington
USA
American soldier and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

No but Al Capone tried to get my great great grandmother to be one of his ladies. She turned him down. Probably a good thing.

 

[RW]

In all likelihood, Kevin Bacon should be my 6th cousin.

 

[finderzzs]

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I'm related to the Townsends whom were featured on the series "Turn, Washington's spies", The Duchess of Arundle (the Arundle castle still stands), And even Samuel Draper, an east coast Pirate