Who's Your Coolest Ancestor?

[spookydom]

thread made me smile, as an historican speaking: without a genealogical tree in an old familybook (possible chance of counterfeit) or even better an offical issued proof of ancestry chances are high that your ancestor were Joe and Jane average, nothing more...

If you had some famous ancestors or want to find out about it, you can try to contact an institut for genealogy at an university or go to a church archive to study old church registers (where you are probably screwed if you cant read latin), if by some chance you're a descendant of an important noble lineage, your family should have its own archive...

don't let you fool you: the ancestry stuff on the internet is nothing more than viral marketing and there are always tall-tales in the oral tradition of your family history. If it can't be proofed by scientific standards, it's worth nothing.

Well, I know for a fact that my ancestor is my ancestor. We have always known. Big family scandel and also a well documented family history in public records. How can you discount everybody elses? Though in my case this leads back over a over only one hundred years. That makes it a lot simpler to check out.

 

[Smokej]

Well, I know for a fact that my ancestor is my ancestor. We have always known. Big family scandel and also a well documented family history in public records. How can you discount everybody elses? Though in my case this leads back over a over only one hundred years. That makes it a lot simpler to check out.

Of course i'm overgeneralizing in some cases

here are the reasons why i'm doubting the validity of the rest:

1. experience on the scienfific matter (although it was only a subdiscipline in my university education, i'm well aware of the strict criteria on objectivity if you're doing genealogical research)

2. experience with people (yeah i'm getting old )

3. closely linked with number 2: It's the internet!

I mean come on, if people claim they are a direct descendant of Captain James Sparrow or whatever, you probably know the outcome. If genealogical research wasn't such a tedious matter, it would be no problem to proof the validity of all the assertions... But as it stands i have to settle myself for a guess...

 

[Alon Shechter]

Grandfather of my grandmother's grandmother.
Killed the entire family of an abusive teacher and then killed him.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

Well, let's see...
I am related (by marriage) to James A. Garfield, a.k.a. shortest acting American president (assassinated after two weeks in office, allegedly by his vice president's orders).

In direct lineage, hmm...
Well, I hail from Bourbon ancestry (the ex ruling monarchy of France), but the lineage research gets a bit fuzzy around that point, so I don't know if I'm directly related to anyone you'd know.
I WILL point out, however, that I share a few distinct facial traits with (in particular) King Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette.

 

[Spinyking]

Sir John Gostwick was my great something-or-other, and a trusted lieutenant of Henry the eigth. He was one of the people sent around to closing down the churches but also marched with Henry in france and was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He had a helmet so big he had to have wooden struts from his breastplate to hold it up. It's apparantly hanging up in a church museum somewhere.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

thread made me smile, as an historican speaking: without a genealogical tree in an old familybook (possible chance of counterfeit) or even better an offical issued proof of ancestry chances are high that your ancestor were Joe and Jane average, nothing more...

If you had some famous ancestors or want to find out about it, you can try to contact an institut for genealogy at an university or go to a church archive to study old church registers (where you are probably screwed if you cant read latin), if by some chance you're a descendant of an important noble lineage, your family should have its own archive...

don't let you fool you: the ancestry stuff on the internet is nothing more than viral marketing and there are always tall-tales in the oral tradition of your family history. If it can't be proofed by scientific standards, it's worth nothing.

Well in my case, I have the ruins of a castle in my family's name, as well as a few Mausoleums that bear the family name in the surrounding area as well, so I have some pretty strong evidence of my lineage.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I heard my grandfather was a really good accountant, but he died before I was born v:

I'd love to know more about my family's past, but I don't even know my dad's real family name. I think some research was done on my mom's side, but nothing interesting that I know of.

 

[Grimfolse]

Mine is probably the guy that invented the sandwich.

You're welcome.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Not sure what the exact relationship is but I know that someone on my dad's side of the family essentially built a lot of what is now Pine Orchard in Connecticut, which is where a lot of rich families, some of which I am related to, live. Unfortunately, my family doesn't inherit any of that money.

 

[Leadfinger]

Turlough O'Carolan was one of my ancestor's. He is considered by many to be Ireland's national composer. Family lore has it that he wrote the tune that was later used for the U.S. national anthem The Star Spangled Banner.

 

[El Poncho]

I've not looked into anything to see if I have any famous ancestors. All I know is that my mums family has a family tree going way back but i've not had a look at it yet, all I know is that one of my ancestors was a Portuguese sailor who came to Scotland. I wouldn't believe this but his genes still appear every now and then to say hello. My mum and 2 of her sisters are pale and ginger while one of them has dark hair, a tanned complexion etc.

 

[templeg]

Florence Nightingale is a distant cousin of mine. Plus a really cool early feminist called Barbara Bodichon who knew people like T.S. Eliot and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a Celtic king called Oliul Ollum who raped a fairy called Aine, she subsequently chewed off his ear and thus his name means 'bare ear'.

 

[Lord Kloo]

One of my great-great-great-great (i can't remember how many it actually is..) uncles was General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy (Southern States at the time of the civil war).. the Lee family has had some good times..

 

[stephen96]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_German
A sir....yeah

 

[Antari]

This is one of my more famous ancestor's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Cyr

 

[DasDestroyer]

Damn that's awesome.
I don't know my family history very far back, but my meternal grandparents were part of the team of engineers that developed the the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin(first man in space) became, well, the first man in space. That's about it.

 

[CloakedOne]

I share a bloodline with Charlemagne, that's pretty awesome to me.

 

[micky]

my ancestors were on the mayflower, john and Priscilla. i think thats pretty cool

 

[E-Hybrid]

my grandfather was part of the Sicilian mafia, but I am going to pretend that I am related to old Norman Kings of Sicily just to make myself feel better.

 

[Chefodeath]

I'm related to a whole bunch of Italian mobsters.