Famous Relatives Anywone?

**Damascus** · 10-24-2004 08:26 PM

hey guys, i was just wondering if anywone has any famous relatives?
i dunno,i think its interesting to find out if anywone here is related to...i dont know,jesus or something

ahh anyway whats your most famous relative?

ill start, im related to sir francis bacon and also, my great great grandmother still alive today was one of the few survivors of the sinking of the titanic,she got out alive when it sank.

**Haz** · 10-24-2004 08:27 PM

i'm related to a butcher! (i think) no really

**Demerzel** · 10-24-2004 08:29 PM

I'm famous!

Well, no, but I should be

**Death-Wuad** · 10-24-2004 08:44 PM

I think my cousin's friend's dad's uncle's mother's cousin's friend's son's left testicle was Ghengis Khan. Other than that, I have a cousin that plays AAA baseball, and I think I have a 3rd cousin that plays for the Bears. My ancestors were from Australia, so maybe some of my family were once blood-thirsty British pirates? That would be awesome.

**Kaniaz** · 10-24-2004 09:45 PM

My family once knew Lord Nelson; you know, the dude who pwned at the Battle of Traflgar. He gave us some candles, the nice ol' chap. Tally ho.

**Soilent Green** · 10-24-2004 10:21 PM

I am directly related to Doctor Philastus Hurlburt. Hurlbut is my mothers maiden name, as he is my great great great great grandfather (the number of greats I'm unsure of, but it's something like 3 or 4). He publically threatened the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism and started the riots that encouraged the Mormons to book it to Utah.

Here's a bit about him.
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/hurlbut.htm

It's kind of like being related to the Judas of Mormonism.

**Kaniaz** · 10-24-2004 10:32 PM

Why don't my Lord Nelson and your Doctor Philastus Hurlburt get together to take over the world? Sounds good to me, a few million volts of electricity through ol' nelson and he'll soon be up and running.

**Je33ica** · 10-24-2004 11:22 PM

hmm i think im somehow related to Lisa Marie Presley (but not through Elvis...aha...) and my great uncle or whatever, A.B. Guthrie, won the pulitzer prize for literature 1950 for The Way West .

**DrumCorpsAlum** · 10-24-2004 11:56 PM

I'm related to sportscaster Jim Nantz.

**Damascus** · 10-25-2004 04:54 PM

sweet, kaniaz are you being serious about being related to lord nelson or are you just being stupid in a mature topic?

no,really i cant tell

**docKnubis** · 10-25-2004 11:20 PM

i am some how related to the write brothers (the airplane ones) and 3 of my ansestory came over on the mayflower and i am related to thomas grover

**Kaniaz** · 10-25-2004 11:40 PM

Originally posted by Damascus
sweet, kaniaz are you being serious about being related to lord nelson or are you just being stupid in a mature topic?

no,really i cant tell

Serious, but we only knew him as a like, friend. He's not my great great great great great uncle or something. He might be my best brother's sister's hairdressers uncle's friend's plumber's mother's uncle's wives great great grandmother's sister's uncle or something.

**docKnubis** · 10-25-2004 11:53 PM

Originally posted by Death-Wuad
I think my cousin's friend's dad's uncle's mother's cousin's friend's son's left testicle was Ghengis Khan. Other than that, I have a cousin that plays AAA baseball, and I think I have a 3rd cousin that plays for the Bears. My ancestors were from Australia, so maybe some of my family were once blood-thirsty British pirates? That would be awesome.

ha ha ha ha i just read that now ... im have ing flash backs of space balls

**A Lost Soul** · 10-26-2004 03:50 AM

My grandmother of 5 greats was Lady Godiva. My grandfather of 6 greats was Sir Francis Drake. That's all I know of.

CT · 10-26-2004 06:05 AM

Originally posted by A Lost Soul
My grandmother of 5 greats was Lady Godiva. My grandfather of 6 greats was Sir Francis Drake. That's all I know of.

so does riding around naked on a horse trough the woods run in the family? Something i'm interested about

**Truthbearer** · 10-26-2004 09:29 AM

I am related(not sure by how much) to Benicio Del Toro & Guillermo Del Toro(director of blade 2 and some other stuff).

Also, my Octavio Paz was my grandfather's cousin...

**Aphius** · 10-26-2004 02:51 PM

Originally posted by CT
so does riding around naked on a horse trough the woods run in the family? Something i'm interested about

I'd like to see that too.

**Seeker** · 10-26-2004 03:05 PM

Not related to anyone famous. My family came from Europe to find work. Mostly in the coal mines =P

**Kaniaz** · 10-26-2004 03:21 PM

You cuckoo murders you.

**Damascus** · 10-26-2004 04:19 PM

ooh so seekers a european at heart

which europe country may i ask?

and truth, you ever met that director relative of yours?

**Taosaur** · 10-26-2004 06:50 PM

I'm with seeker--I'm made from the refugees and outcasts of half a dozen cultures, and none of us are famous yet.

**A Lost Soul** · 10-26-2004 07:37 PM

Originally posted by CT+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CT)</div>

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My grandmother of 5 greats was Lady Godiva. My grandfather of 6 greats was Sir Francis Drake. That's all I know of.

so does riding around naked on a horse trough the woods run in the family? Something i'm interested about

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Actually, she rode naked on a horse through the middle of town as a protest to lower taxes and allow art to be available to everyone. Does it run in the family? I'll never tell...

**Amethyst Star** · 10-26-2004 10:58 PM

I'm related to some guy who found a diamond mine, but we didn't inherit anything... I really don't know anything else about it besides that. Otherwise, I'm a melting pot, just like practically everyone else.

-Amé

**Negaigoto** · 10-27-2004 06:10 AM

Mmm... They're not as common now, but does anyone see streetlights that have a kinda pinkish tinge to them? Some ancestor of mine way back invented that kind of bulb, and at the time it was the best thing ever; apparently they've only been integrating other kinds fairly recently, according to my dad, which would really mean sometime within his lifetime... But yeah, he was just some kid who came to America from Germany to work, and he invented that bulb, sold it for a rather lovely little fortune to General Electric, and used the money to bring every relative he had overseas.

Ethnically though I'm a total European mutt. ^_^