Do you have anyone famous in your family tree?
By dreamertink
@dfollin (25644)
United States
11 responses
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
5 Aug 07
On the Native American side of my family, I have some famous ancesters. I am related to Chief Little Turtle, also to Chief Francis Godfroy. They are both important Native American, from the Miami Tribe. One of my grandmothers has her picture in a museum. Its too bad one of my ancesters didn't have lots of money so they could have left me some, darn....
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@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
2 Jan 08
If you are of Native American ancestry I would continue to get all the info you can on your heritage. My tribe has been fighting the govt. for many years for tribal recognition. If we get our recognition then the govt. owes us. The govt. stole from my ancesters and me being a decendent of them might be intitled to govt. benefits. I would keep checking it out and get all the info you can, who knows, if you are a Native American, there might be benefits for you. My grandmother was half Miami, I don't have alot of Miami blood in me, but it was enough for me to get a check from the govt. This was many years ago and the check was only for $400 but every bit helps. I am a member of a tribe, every year we go to our Family Reunion for The Miami Indian Tribe. The reunions have been going on for over 100 years. We have lots of other stuff going on to, I am not able to keep up with it all. I live in Ohio and our Trible Office and land is in Indiana about 4 hours away. Good luck with finding out about the picture.
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@dfollin (25644)
• United States
2 Jan 08
I started research my family tree over 20 years ago to try and find out who this woman was in a picture that my grandmother had of a full blood Cherokee woman.She said it was one of her grandmother's,but I have not been able to find out who.
I haven't found anybody I could claim money from either,lol.
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@AmbiePam (96778)
• United States
5 Aug 07
I have a famous outlaw in my family tree, but he isn't as well known as Jesse James. My great, great....grandfather was Black Jack Ketchum. He apparently ran with Jesse James and his gang. Not something I'm proud of, but then again, I didn't do it, LOL.
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@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
10 Jan 08
In my family, my uncle is famous at the national level and for my state he is among the famous men. Other than that, my spouse is a family of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This men is his ancestor and his mom now still involve in politic at their local community in Punjab. My father have a cousin who is a minister in our state, Sabah.
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@dfollin (25644)
• United States
10 Jan 08
That is pretty cool,you have a variety of people in your family.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
6 Aug 07
One of my relatives is the spitting image of this very evil Viking who lived somewhere about the nineth Century, but other than that, they is no one famous or infamous. So we were just boring amiable people, the kind who would rather marry than fight.
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@dfollin (25644)
• United States
2 Jan 08
Lol,"would rather marry than fight" good one! Boring? I don't think anyone is boring.Everyone has something intresting about them.Maybe that ancestor that looked like this viking was the viking.Hmmmm.
@dfollin (25644)
• United States
2 Jan 08
If he is kin to Elvis,you should be really proud.You should research it.
@ladysurvivor (4746)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 07
I have one cousin who is famous because she is working at the television station. She works as a freelancer artist, primarily being a program host. She has worked for television station such as Astro, Radio Television Malaysia and TV3. She had also went for shooting with the Singapore television. Her name is Jamilah Wadan. However she is only famous locally. She also acts in a comedy series locally.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
5 Aug 07
My Uncle is a well known Pacific Island writer and artist in New Zealand, Hawaii and The Pacific Islands.
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@hermitcrabheaven (645)
• United States
5 Aug 07
Goldie Hawn is somehow very distantly related to me. John Rutledge, who signed the Declaration of Independence is also an ancestor. Jenna Von Oy, who played Six on Blossom is a cousin of a cousin of a cousin. Never met any of them. :o)
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@umart13 (841)
• Ireland
20 Jul 08
Hi dfollin. I see you have another variation of an Irish name. They have a big book store back in Dublin. Well I started doing the family trees a few years ago and the project is still running. It's not just a matter of how far back I can go, but also how big some of the families are. I also say trees because my mother re-married. The surprise was finding one Lord Major Of Dublin and his half brother, who was Lord Major of London's largest Borough. That must be unusual. The reason why is was a surprise is that the family did not say anything about it when we were growing up.
Best regards
Umart
