Kas

My great, great, great grandfather is Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He was the Billy Graham of England in the 1800's. My dad looked just like him. It was weird. My mom's side is interesting, too. My grandmother's 1st cousin was Jack King. He was one of the five artists Walt Disney brought on board to develop the characters. After they figured out how Mickey and so on would look and sound, they trained the animators and then moved up to management. I have two original scketches Jack made for my great uncle dated 1931. My grandmother has another famous cousin. General George Patton. And when her not so upstanding nephew named his son George, she had a FIT!

MaggieLou

Alexander Hamilton is a distant relative and also duke that was guardian of Mary Queen of Scots.

marsye

I think I'm related to Popeye :wink:

Quilt4u

All I know was some of my Ancestors were French royal gards.

Kas

Marsye, you are a hoot!

MadQuilter

Adam and Eve

Up North

God!

Bill'sBonBon

All of this is on my Mothers side. Pohontas is my 11th or 12 ,forgot exactly how many, direct line Grndmother. From my Mothers Mother side of the Family The Bollings. All Documented and DNA Done. I did a family Book for my kids and my Moms brothers kids. Took me a yr. to compile and sort. Printed it on my own printer front and Back, I used Family Tree Maker software,good stuff. I bought wide binders to hold it all together and used my schools puncher and binder to put it all together. Gave it to my family as a Christmas present.
On my Mothers,Fathers side my How many grts ? never counted, Grndfather is Timen Stiddem. You can go online to both Families and see their trees. The Timen stiddem society, It is spelled several ways ours is Stidham, was the first doc in the new world in Delaware. They have big family reunions have gone to 1. First Family reunion I went to that was catered,intertained,ETC. A lot of Fun. He was from Sweden. My line is the Adam line. They are trying to get a bunch to go to Sweden :-( Couldn't go if they did :-D But don't care anyways. The earliest GrdFather is Luloff Stidden born abt. 1580 and died july 1639.
There are also the Brocks one of my Grndmothers, some famous in there just haven't done anything abt. it to see. There are several GrndMothers that were Native American, on my Moms side of the Family. Need to dig them out would love to see some more Native Americans names.
My deceased Dads side? Only God knows. I haven't had the money to do research on his family,didn't even know my grnd.parents name until I sent for his SS application and there they were. He never talked abt. them. Don't know why.Maybe one day!!!!!
But me I am just plain ole Me!!!
BillsBonBon

ekbuckeye

This is a fun thread! On Daddy's side, Philip Doddridge wrote some hymns that are in the Baptist hymnal.

Luv Quilts and Cats

I've research some on my family. No one famous yet, or infamous. On my Mom's side, I traced one line back to 1632. Pierre Guillet, a carpenter, came to Canada from France. My cousin married my friend's sister, and we found out that way back, one of my ancestors married into their family as well. We chuckled about that one!