Historical Relatives

[TerribleIdeas™]

Supposedly, I'm descended from one of the many adopted children of Benjamin Franklin, which were really just kids he had with single women, and then adopted so the women wouldn't be treated like sluts. I'm also supposed to be related to Jacques Plante, first NHL goalie to wear a face-guarding mask on a regular basis, but not the first goalie to wear one, period.

Other than that, no one exciting that I've been made aware of.

 

[Marissa Moira]

My biological parents seem to be very famous, they're Jane and John Doe.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Supposedly, I'm descended from one of the many adopted children of Benjamin Franklin, which were really just kids he had with single women

That's better than being related to him through a cousin by marriage but the wife died before having kids with him (that, or she almost married him, I'm trying to remember).

I'm apparently related to Alexander Hamilton through my paternal grandmother's side, though.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

I can trace my lineage back to 1066 and before that to around 800 AD.
Ain't sayin we wuz Kangs yo, but fo real, we wuz the main mangs of dose Kangs.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

The only famous person in my family is my uncle who was in the Blue Legion during WWII. He left his medals to my dad and my brother has them now. He was an absolutely fascinating person but I can't talk about him to anyone IRL for obvious reasons.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Well I am related to (((those people))), so dubious relations vary. On my Irish side, the claims depend on how drunk my dad is, claims include (semi-rationally) the filmmakers John Ford or John Huston, and (very drunk) John Wayne and Michael Collins.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

There's been some claims on my maternal grandfather's side of the family that we're descendants of Davy Crockett. Looking it up it seems that his heritage was predominantly French while that side of my family is Danish-Cherokee (or something) so I'm not sure how true that is, but I think the idea that we're the offspring of some frontier dude who wore dead animals on his head and could perform amazing feats of skill is unsurprising.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

There's been some claims on my maternal grandfather's side of the family that we're descendants of Davy Crockett. Looking it up it seems that his heritage was predominantly French while that side of my family is Danish-Cherokee (or something) so I'm not sure how true that is, but I think the idea that we're the offspring of some frontier dude who wore dead animals on his head and could perform amazing feats of skill is unsurprising.

To be fair, Crockett has a lot of descendants.
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[raspberry peach]

Somewhere back a little, one of my female relatives married a Kennedy, so..that's about it.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I don't have any famous historical relatives but I met two different people who had ancestors who were wives of Henry VIII.

 

[Gorgar]

My great great great great grandfather help made a village in Germany and named it after his last name, That’s all I got, I never really looked it in that further.