Famous relatives

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:46 pm

I'm interested in genealogy. Has anyone traced their family history and found some famous relatives? My wife has been told she is related (I'm sure very distantly) to one of the King Georges of England.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:58 pm

One of my friend's friend's brother's cousin's friend's mom (or something like that) is related to Shania Twain, does that count?

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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:11 pm

I have several famous people down in my family nothing closely related though.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:38 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: One of my friend's friend's brother's cousin's friend's mom (or something like that) is related to Shania Twain, does that count?

almost

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sweetness · Post by **sweetness** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:13 am

ive always wanted to trace my father's family (i have never met any of them and he hasnt spoken to any of them for over 40 yrs). I'm not quite sure where to start and i'm not sure whether or not it would be a good or bad move.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:25 pm

There is a small chance that I came from the same line as ancient Irish King Brian Boru. But thats just a maybe.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:38 pm

Cicero wrote: There is a small chance that I came from the same line as ancient Irish King Brian Boru. But thats just a maybe.

There is also a small chance that I come from the same line as the historical William Wallace.

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erolyn · Post by **erolyn** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:12 pm

I'm descended from John Adams. Apparently his son, John Q. Adams, had like 22 kids. Weirdness.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:59 pm

erolyn wrote: I'm descended from John Adams. Apparently his son, John Q. Adams, had like 22 kids. Weirdness.

That's neat, he had some great ideas on government!

Here's some stuff I believe he wrote that is why our version of government works best. He studied other governments and philosophies to come to this conclusion, something I wish our leaders would have the desire and drive to do.

http://www.constitution.org/jadams/ja1_00.htm

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fcbayer · Post by **fcbayer** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:55 pm

my granfather was a captian on a B28 in WW2

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erolyn · Post by **erolyn** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:32 pm

MrSelf wrote:
erolyn wrote: I'm descended from John Adams. Apparently his son, John Q. Adams, had like 22 kids. Weirdness.

That's neat, he had some great ideas on government!

Here's some stuff I believe he wrote that is why our version of government works best. He studied other governments and philosophies to come to this conclusion, something I wish our leaders would have the desire and drive to do.

http://www.constitution.org/jadams/ja1_00.htm

It's kinda funny you said that, because in 8th grade we did American History, and I remember when we talked about John Adams and John Q. Adams, my teacher basically said that they were both terrible compared to the presidents that came before and after them. And I felt really bad, and kept wondering why I couldn't have been descended from Thomas Jefferson, instead.

But thanks for the link

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:01 pm

Haha, yeah, I can see how a teacher would say that, and I guess if the Presendency is your determining factor, then yeah. But he helped father our country, and understood the true idea of America, and not the bastardized version it tends to become...

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