I'm Related to Princess Diana??
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
Eugene, Oregon
March 15, 2023 7:10pm CST
That's news to me, but I got an email today from "Family Search" going back seven generations that seems to prove it. It agrees with the information in that manila envelope from my sister in 1999 that went back about five generations on my father's side, same names, birthdates, etc.
Several of those generations were dirt farmers in North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
The site seems to be legitimate, owned and funded by the LDS church, which seems to do genealogy on everyone.
This relationship, if it's true, really has no meaning to me at all and certainly wouldn't buy me cup of tea or a free brew in a London tavern,
Any famous relatives or outlaws in your family tree?
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
That's the only one I ever heard of, but there was a man named Pink Higgins in Texas who got a lot of notoriety.
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@rakski (126053)
• Philippines
16 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic I'm not familiar with Pink Higgins
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
@rakski Oh no, he wasn't famous, just a rancher from Texas back in the 1880s or so who had a big feud with some people who stole cattle.
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@sjvg1976 (41290)
• Delhi, India
16 Mar 23
That's true that you are not going to get any benefit from it but still, it looks good that is related to a princess family.
I remember a few years ago I read in the newspaper that a relative of Muslim emperor Aurangzeb was selling tea on roadside as he had no other profession or money to feed his family.
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@sjvg1976 (41290)
• Delhi, India
16 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic Yes, that's terrible.
Do you know Aurangzeb?
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
@sjvg1976 No, but that's terrible thing to happen to anyone. I just read a little about Aurangzeb and it seems that some liked him and some didn't, as with all rulers.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
Oh my, what terrible luck he had.
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@snowy22315 (182175)
• United States
16 Mar 23
Not that I know of, but if you go back far enough it seems like everyone is related.
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@snowy22315 (182175)
• United States
16 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic Not specifically, but they say all blue eyed people had one ancestor in common etc
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
I suppose so, if you buy the Adam & Eve story.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
@snowy22315 Oh, never heard that.
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@LeaPea2417 (37379)
• Toccoa, Georgia
16 Mar 23
I do know I have an ancestor that fought in the American Revolutionary War on my Mother's side.
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@LeaPea2417 (37379)
• Toccoa, Georgia
17 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic Yes, one of my Grandmother's sisters was really interested and into researching the line that went back through their Grandmother (my Great Grandmother).
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Mar 23
@LeaPea2417 That's great. I had a distant grandfather & grand uncle who did too. I wrote about that a couple of weeks ago.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
That is an interesting thing to discover.
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@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
16 Mar 23
I have never been interested to know if I am related to famous people or to outlaws. I know that my husband is related to a Prince (not as famous as Lady Diana), because he found a document in his grandfather home. He also did not care to know more.
If you are interested this is the Princess Diana Family Tree.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a37887338/princess-diana-spencer-family-tree/
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@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
16 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic 
I fully agree with you about that archaic system.
I fully agree with you about that archaic system.3 people like this
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
@LadyDuck Yes, it seems so strange in this century.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
Thanks @LadyDuck, but I am I'll treat that email as a novelty, since if I were English, I would not be happy supporting that archaic system.
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@DaddyEvil (137634)
• United States
16 Mar 23
Stuff like that doesn't bring in any money but they're still interesting to know.
Supposedly, my family is related to Jesse James... I don't know if that's true or not. Just something my sister found when she was doing our family tree fifteen or so years ago.
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@DaddyEvil (137634)
• United States
16 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic Oh, wow! Did he win the fight?
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
The only famous, really infamous one I knew about was a man named Pink Higgins in Texas that had a big feud with some cattle rustlers and ended up shooting several. I have a book about him.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
@DaddyEvil In either Waco or Lampasas, there was quite downtown gunfight. The other family involved in the feud eventually left for Idaho. Pink had a son, a lawyer, I think who was shot through a hotel window, if I remember correctly some years later. I think there is some info on the internet.
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@allknowing (137775)
• India
16 Mar 23
Not that I know of but your surname Higgins always reminds me of Henry Higgins from the movie My Fair Lady (lol)
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
Yes, I've heard that before. Also, Higgins on Magnum, P.I. a good show years ago.
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@jstory07 (139974)
• Roseburg, Oregon
18 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic No I have not. I have always know nothing I just found on Ancestry.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
18 Mar 23
That's incredible.! Have you written about it?
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
18 Mar 23
@jstory07 That's quite interesting.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
22 Mar 23
Right, I have that long line of dirt farmers.
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@TheHorse (220245)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Mar 23
I am the Great Great Grandson of James Fergus, a 19th Century settler and rancher in Montana. As family legend has it, he allowed a neighbor to use his water when he (Fergus) lived in Moline Illinois. The fella, named John Deere, was trying to start a plow factory. Frostbite Falls Minnesota, where Rocky and Bullwinkle are from, is actually Fergus Falls, named after him.
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@TheHorse (220245)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic Heh. I grew up on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 Mar 23
@TheHorse Was Tom & Jerry for me.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 Mar 23
Very cool bit of family history! Good comic strip too.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
I am shocked to say the least. I wonder if I can visit the palace? Oh, wait, she won't be there.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
17 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic You can still visit the palace. My son and his wife visited a few years ago.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
18 Mar 23
Sure, it could be interesting.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50525)
• United States
16 Mar 23
Still that’s a cool thing to know.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
I know that some of those people came from Ireland, so not sure of the connection at all.
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Mar 23
Oh yes, there could be. I remember reading a great novel about that.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Mar 23
How unfortunate. I'd keep that one quiet too.
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