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.

distant cousin to Robert E. Lee

No famous or infamous for my family (that I know of :lol: )

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.

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

I saw a movie about Quantrel once. Audie Murphy was in it.

Many greats grandfather signed Declaration of Independence, Thomas McKean - he was also governer of Pennsylvania and has streets named after him - the rest of the relations remain unknown skeletans.

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:

John Adams and John Q Adams on my moms side.

My great grandmother married Lawrence Welk's cousin....

Small world...my maternal grandmother was related to Ulysses S. Grant.

oh gosh, on my Mothers side we go back to the Plantagenent Kings. very interesting to have all that genealogy done for you!

George Rogers Clark... of Lewis and Clark... a distant relative... Also, word has it that Jesse James' cohorts are relatives of ours too...

my daughters(on their father side) have an ancester that came over on the mayflower,on of the Fuller bros,dont remember which one off hand

Rememberance Allerton. Survivor of the first winter.

My ancestor is Sir Dudley Wyatt of Jamestown VA..he was one of the first governing members. He owned the land where The College of William and Mary is located in Williamsburg VA. My mother's distant cousin is Jane Wyatt from Father Knows Best. My mother also went to school with Don Knotts from Andy of Mayberry.

On one side of my family I am a descendent of Peter Stuyvesant. served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York) from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.
Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway. On the other side of my family I am related to Buford Hayse Pusser of the Walking Tall movie.

One of my matrilineal ancestors married one of President Polk's daughters.

I'm allegedly the sixth cousin to Jessie James, but I need proof of that first before I believe it.

Gee whiz, guess we were just a bunch of mutts!

Robert Burns the poet is a decedent of mine.

My dad used to say we were "Heinz 57's"(?)

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!

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

I think I'm related to Popeye :wink:

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

Marsye, you are a hoot!

Adam and Eve

God!

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

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

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!

I'm adopted so only know about adoptive parents family history...which is quite interesting.

On my mom's side her grandfather and his brother came to Texas from Denmark. Danish name of Bjornson/Bjornsen (?) was changed to Johnson.

On Daddy's side there were all sorts of famous people...General Woolfe who did something heroic in Canada, don't recall exactly what at this moment. A distant cousin passed on geneology tracing back to William the Conqueror and then on back to Charlemain.

Hubby's mom's family goes back to Nancy Stuart who is somehow related to Mary Queen of Scots. On his dad's side his great grandmother supposedly participated in the Trail of Tears, although his aunt (apparently a somewhat prejudiced individual) refused to acknowledge that such could have been possible.

On my dad's side I'm related to the Ute Indian Chief Ouray's wife Chipeta. On mom's side my great great grandmother ran "Robbers Roost" in Southern Utah where Billy the Kid and all those outlaws hung out. My cousin was Pearl Baker who wrote the book "The Wild Bunch" about the Robbers Roost.

No wonder I'm so conflicted. My blood is full of cowboys and Indians at war with each other!

There is an LDS (mormon) book about the pioneers called I Walked to Zion and one of my ancestors is in it, Agnes Caldwell (Southworth). Also there is a painting called "Tell John I Died With My Face Toward Zion" and that's a member of my family, the Murdoch Family :)
I think that is kinda cool that I can trace my family history through writings and paintings :)

Me too! Just think, all of that there and you get to see what some of them looked like.

After my Grandpa died I found a newspaper clipping in his trunk. It was about how he found a monkey on the street, LOL! Hardly a noteworthy experience, not like walking to Zion. But you do have to wonder, how much talent does it take to spot a monkey in the 1920's walking down Main Street in Owosso, Michigan? Not a talent to be sure! Nor a claim to fame, just a funny story.

Oh my gosh, no that's way cool! Like, just any little thing that tells us more about our ancestors. Way cool.

Also...since we got on the topic, I'm going crazy looking at family history online and have determined that since I am related to Radcliffe's from England, that I MUST be related to Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter. We'll just go with that. :)

Peter Frederick Rothermel, on my mom's side. He did the famous Battle of Gettsyburg painting.

Jesse James

Ya know, some of you on this thread just might be related to each other!!

could be