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All Things Considered => General Discussion--Non food Related => Topic started by: Bobitis on July 27, 2019, 10:35:35 PM
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Since the 'handle' thread looks so popular, I thought I'd throw this out there...
Who's in yer family tree of note?
I've a couple so I'll start with the most famous, William Dawes (family called him Billy).
https://www.history.com/news/the-midnight-ride-of-william-dawes
Good intentions gone bad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Rolls
Jeannie C Riley (cousin):
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jeannie+c.+riley+harper+valley+p.t.a.&&view=detail&mid=D2D1DF4674862E758E65D2D1DF4674862E758E65&&FORM=VRDGAR
Somewhere in the family archives is a picture of some members on horseback that had hung a cattle rustler from a tree.
I too have an Uncle that survived the Bataan Death March. He swore he would never get to heaven after what his captors forced him to do. No amount of liquor would loose his lips. As a youngster, he had a barrel loaded 410 shotgun. You had to push the barrel down to 'cock' the rifle. Stoopid him; he neglected to notice there was a round in the chamber and promptly blew off both his middle fingers (as they were both wrapped around the business end of the rifle). Needless to say, he could never give the finger to his captors.
All of them are famous in my eyes.
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Daniel Boone was a relative but, it would take a genealogy professor to actually tell me how many cousins twice removed he is to me. :D
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Arthur Middleton , one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was some sort of distant relative of mine.
On my father's side, the heritage can be traced back to two brothers that came into the USA before the revolution. One stayed in the USA, and fought in the revolution, the other ended up going into Canada. Oddly enough , both of their linage eventually came to settle back in around Saginaw Michigan in later years. Virtually all the 'Wiltse' families in the USA can be traced back to those two brothers.
One of my distant relatives actually still lives on land that was deeded to him for fighting in the revolution. My parents went to visit them years ago, in upstate New York ( somewhere near the finger lakes area ) , they had a small dairy farm on the land, and have the original deed , signed by George Washington. The more telling part of this in terms of our general relationship with making wise choices, or having good/bad fortune, is the story goes that the person who was deeded the land actually originally had a 1 square mile of land that was located on Long Island NY, he apparently traded it for the 1 square mile of land near the finger lakes. I wonder what a square mile of land on Long Island would be worth today?
Now, for more or less my whole life, I was told that my great great , grandmother was full blood Cherokee , which would make me 1/8th Cherokee. However , my sister through DNA tells me we have no native american blood in us, and that the woman who supposedly was 100% Cherokee, wasn't Cherokee at all... So who knows for sure what the heck is true. I think everything I've said is accurate, but who knows for sure.
One thing I do know for sure, is that one of my grandmothers, came from Czechoslovakia with her family , when she was a very little girl. They settled in the Saginaw Michigan area, where she met my grandpa Wiltse. My mothers side of the family was a pretty good mixture of various European heritages, but most prominently were Irish , with the family name of McKendree
One other thing I have been told, but have no way to verify... is that my wife, has some blood that goes back to the family of Chiang Kai-Shek. With what little I actually know of my wife's family heritage, it's become clear to me that there has to be a lot of very interesting stuff that I may never actually know very well, mainly due to my inability to speak Chinese, but also because as near as I know, not a lot gets spoken of some of the past , for reasons that aren't completely understood by myself, or even my wife to some degree.
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Not by blood, but my brother in law's sister in law is a Zappa; Frank's niece. She has some interesting stories about her family get together's growing up!
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Somewhere in the family archives is a picture of some members on horseback that had hung a cattle rustler from a tree.
That was probably my relative swinging from the rope. :rotf:
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Don't know much about way back but doubt there is anything noteworthy, I am sure I would have heard something from someone.
Interesting stuff here though.
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Yes, interesting family accounts.
My parents are Lithuanian immigrants (1930s) and Marcia's are Norwegian. No one famous or noteworthy on either side—peasants, serfs, laborers and fishermen.
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According to family lore my great grandfather on my father's side was a mechanic for Al Capone.
I assume that if it is even remotely true he might have changed Capone's oil once or something like that.
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I have a famous distant relative that is a pitcher for the Houston Astro's, Justin Verlander. Early in his career, he won both MVP and Cy Young award while playing with the Detroit Tigers. Coincidently, I also have a grandson named Justin.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a cousin to my grandfather.
Donald Trump is a distant cousin also on my grandfather's side, thru his mother.
Z
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My Mom's family emigrated from the Gudbrandsdalen Valley in Norway in the 1870's and settle in Wisconsin and then some later in the Dakotas. I don't know of any famous folks -- just farmers.
My Dad's family goes back to the period before the Revolutionary War in Virginia and the Carolinas. We are supposedly distantly related to Edward Rutledge, the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence. I think that is our biggest claim to fame.
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My biggest claim to fame is that I grew up in the town that houses the summer home of George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. I have no famous or infamous relatives to my knowledge.
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Kristin and Lew,
The guys who signed the Declaration of Independence were putting their lives on the line (and a price on their head) by signing that document.
Definitely something to be proud of.
I'm afraid there are not many today who would take that step.
Alan
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Daniel Boone was a relative but, it would take a genealogy professor to actually tell me how many cousins twice removed he is to me. :D
. Funny, my grandmother told us the same thing. Never was able to find out if it was true, but Grandma sweared by the info! Couple of family genealogy experts say they have found mentions of him way back but can’t get anything solid to confirm.
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Daniel Boone was a relative but, it would take a genealogy professor to actually tell me how many cousins twice removed he is to me. :D
. Funny, my grandmother told us the same thing. Never was able to find out if it was true, but Grandma sweared by the info! Couple of family genealogy experts say they have found mentions of him way back but can’t get anything solid to confirm.
Odd, my grandmother was also who told me. But my niece is the one that found him in a DNA test that confirmed it, so Granny wasn't funnin us after all. ;D
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My grandmother's brother-in-law was the head of the research team that developed Rice Krispies and Bran Flakes (but there is no evidence that he had anything to do with the addition of rasins). He did work his way up the Kellogg corporate ladder, but ended up falling from near the top rung. As the story goes, Kellogg went to Europe and left Uncle Gene in charge. W.K. came back early and Gene was golfing instead of working, so he fired him. Eventually Gene's son (my dad's cousin) became one of the founders of Archway cookies.