Who is in your Family Tree?

Hey my ol' friend. Sorry I keep getting sidetracked away from mylot. I'm trying to do better though. Anyway, on my fathers side, my great, great, great uncle was Wilhelm Hauff, the German writer and "fairytale writer'. (His tales were somewhat morbid.) I am also related on my mother's side to an one of the first englishmen ever to marry a Cherokee indian princess. They had to go into hiding so he wouldn't be killed, and she wouldn't be burned alive. It is quite the tale. My ex-husband is related to the Cameronians in Scottland, that helped protect the church. My current husband is related to both Brigham Young(but hubby isn't Mormon and Brigham was disowned from his own family for his beliefs), and he is a direct decendent of Belle Starr. I love the history on his side of the family.

wow this is interesting... ok, on my mother's side , our great great grand father became the Governor of our province and this great2x grand father got a brother who became congressman of Manila. on the other hand, on my father side, our clan here is known to be an intelligent clan, from my great grandma to grandma, from my dad to aunties and uncles, if they are not valedictorian of their class, they are Salutatorians. :-)

I am far from being related to anyone famous. On both sides of family I can go back five or six generations, with a lot more detail for my Father. One lot of my Fathers ancestors were English. She was Queen Victoria's lace maker & he was the gardener at Buckingham Palace. After immigration to Australia they had ten kids & ran an emu farm. The other side of my Fathers English ancestors was a convict. From Manchester, he was convicted of house breaking & was sentenced to seven years transportation. He left behind a wife & 2 year old son. After he was freed, he married a full blood Aboriginal woman. We have never been absolutely certain, but we think she is the daughter of King Goghy, of the Daruk Group of Aboriginal people in the Sydney area. The other side of my Fathers family is Irish & my father is 1/4 Irish. My personality is more Irish than anything else. They came out during the Potato Famine. My Mothers side is partly English & he was a Doctor from Bristol.

so funny...i recently read over a bunch of papers about our family. My grandmother always held a grudge towards my mom for not naming her firstborn son after my dad and carrying on the family name. In reading the history, come to find out that my brother unwittingly was named after the first born son of the family that first came to this country. it was so ironic!! That stupid argument carried on in our family to the grave. It is as I write under speculation as to whether or not Steve Tyler is our cousin. I think he is but we are searching for proof.

I haven't a clue. I know I'm a heize 57 meaning I have a mixture of races in my blood and I think it would be really hard for me to trace my family's roots. However, my dad was told that his grandmother was a full blooded indian but he can't get proof and the relatives that are alive today don't know or won't tell. Back in those days, marrying an indian was a big no no.

I apparently have a connection to the English nobility of the 16th century (heheheh, I think a LOT of people can lay claim to that one though so it's no big deal). Anyway, his name was Earl Loveday (Loveday was my maiden name) Ancestry can be a funny thing to study though.. A close friend and I both have an unusual physical characteristic (weird toenails on our little toes, it's not an actual toenail, it's like a little spike that sticks up out of the toe. There would be a lot of people who have it but in terms of percentages only about 1 in 10,000 have it). Since we were both born in England we had a look at our ancestry and discovered a common ancester four generations ago (my paternal grandmother's grandmother... I knew it had to be nana's family as she was the one I inherited the characteristic from) which makes us cousins three times removed... what a small world LOL. Wendy's family migrated to Australia in 1961 and my family migrated in 1968 and we actually managed to meet and become friends :)

What a cool discussion. On my father's side of the family, we're related to Queen Elizabeth I's cousin, who's family ended up coming to the new world and had the state of Delaware named after him. His last name was Wickware. On my mother's side, we are related to the Earl of Sandwich, but so distantly related that we'd never even be let onto the grounds of the existing manor. LOL My husband's great grandmother was a full blooded Crow Indian woman by the name of Rondola Suntag-and was an outcast with the rest of the family. However, my husband has embraced his Native American heritage, and so have my children.

Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea who I'm related to....I can go back as far as.....ME LOL seriously..I dont even know my parents names which sucks on so many levels...Hopefully someday I'll be able to find out my family tree etc but for now its just me at the top then my kids..

My mother has papers documenting and confirming our direct descendance from Edward Rutledge, ten generations back. Edward Rutledge signed the declaration of Independance. So, he was practically one of the founding fathers. I think it's pretty cool. Too bad there aren't any scholarships for it, like there are the pilgrim descendants!

My family is made up of outlaws.. lol.. I am directly realated to Belle Starr, Colters or Youngers (one or the other, I'm just not sure which one it is) and to the great poet James Russell Lowell.. I'm still searching for others.

my gr gr grandfather Christopher Ladd was almost hanged for murder as he was reportedly the last one seen with the murder victim but after a longdrawn out trial they found that he was innocent as they found some of the military buttons from the murder victim in the possession of a itenerary tramp who had been seen earlier with the victim. so he dodged that. and my gr gr gr gr grandfather William Spencer was witha group of union men who were suspected of the murder of a confedrate ex soldier and this was never really solved. it was called thegreat Jasper missouri murder trial or something to that effect as I do not remember the exact title but oddly enough that is on the internet under the correct name I do not think that I have it quite right.

well as far as heritage goes the first one on our side of the family that is notable was on my mothers side he was a descendant from wales an heir of the founders of wales I used to have his name but through the years of bad memory it has slipped my mind. LOL the next one that is notable is a former president of the united states Benjamin Franklin. Also from my mothers side. My father side most of them were natives and couldn't pronounce the names today because the only way they had to keep up with there names back then was if they ever became a notable person. But from that descendant is where my family got most of there land from and through the years there name was derived from the ownership of lots of land and now to day our heritage came from the word strike land and eventually became strickland as a proper english name.