Any Famous Ancestors?
07-01-2010, 06:53 AM
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Or INFAMOUS?
Mine is the latter. Both of my parents were genealogists and so I've known since childhood that I am related to.......are you ready? Benedict Arnold. Biggest traitor this country ever had.
Mine is the latter. Both of my parents were genealogists and so I've known since childhood that I am related to.......are you ready? Benedict Arnold. Biggest traitor this country ever had.
07-01-2010, 07:06 AM
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My family came over on the Mayflower. I was baptized in the Christian Congregational Church in Rochester, MA. Which is the Protestant Religion of the Pilgrims. Miles Standish is my great-great etc. grandfather.
07-01-2010, 07:13 AM
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According to an aunt who does genealogy, a great many times removed grandfather was Thomas Lynch, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (famous). My great grandmother didn't know for sure, but thinks her father rode with Quantrel (infamous). My hometown was named after my great great grandfather when he donated the land for the townsite when the railroad came through farther south than the existing town/county seat. But it's only famous with us! :-D
07-01-2010, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by bj
According to an aunt who does genealogy, a great many times removed grandfather was Thomas Lynch, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (famous). My great grandmother didn't know for sure, but thinks her father rode with Quantrel (infamous). My hometown was named after my great great grandfather when he donated the land for the townsite when the railroad came through farther south than the existing town/county seat. But it's only famous with us! :-D
07-01-2010, 07:45 AM
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Nope! I have traced my Wixom line back to Robert Wixom who came to America in about 1630, and so was considered to be a pilgrim, even tho he didn't come on the Mayflower.
William's something-or-another great grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War with Francis Marion, aka "The Swamp Fox"...
That's about as close to fame as we get! :lol:
William's something-or-another great grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War with Francis Marion, aka "The Swamp Fox"...
That's about as close to fame as we get! :lol:
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