proud heritage

who has heritage of famious heritage.... best i can do iS my great gramma telling about seeimg calamity jane in deadwood geting outta a stage coach...she said she said she pulled her skirt up you could see everything the street was muddy AND SHE WAS CUSSIN A BLUE STREAK !!!

Grandfather was known as Muskrat Pete that trapped on Lake Calumet south of Chicago.

Wife's 5th great uncle = Robert E. Lee. Yep...Confederate General R.E. Lee.

You win.

Thats pretty cool xcept she was butt ugly. Maybe not down there.

Hey law dog is this your grand dad?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKJU-Umqv0

Sounds like him time and place is right, Roseland is where I grew up in the row housing just a couple blocks from the place Pullman train-cars were made many years ago. Electromotive still was building train engines the last I heard I knew a guy that worked there.

I am way down the Line but John Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(Virginia_politician)

She and I joined a local genealogical society a few years back. They had detailed records...Huxford Geneological Society. We located the entire family tree on her mother's side...all the way to England. It was interesting...we spent several days and hours at that place.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Huxford-Spear_Genealogical_Library

I like that! Great history to pass along, thanks.

My grandmother is a descendant of John Wesley Hardin a notorious gunfighter made famous for shooting a man for snoring and I have an aunt through marriage that is a descendant of William B. Travis who drew the line in the sand at the Alamo.

Somehow related to John Wayne. The "Elder" gang portrayed in the movie are also related, but that is not their real name. They wouldn't let J. Wayne use their real name when he wanted to do the movie to clear up their name.

My 3 or 4 time great grandpa was the first documented Cherokee Indian to settle in Houston county Tn. He was running away from being part of the trail of tears. ( it may have been Montgomery county)

Way way back we are related to queen of England. Which is weird because Princess Di was also related but in a different way.

Cousin of Devil Anse Hatfield, Great Great Grandmother was Elizabeth Hatfield his first cousin. My cousin married Robert E Lee, a descendant with same name. We also had some outlaw cousins on that side the family from Iowa, but can't recall the name off top of my head.
Moms side of the family had a few moon shiners, but not really famous to anyone other than the revenuers. Grandpa was a nurse on the actual medic ship portrayed in the Hacksaw Ridge movie.

Yea he wins! I’m a bit jealous. I’d like to do some research on my family’s heritage. I enjoy history

Wife's Great Grandmother was related to the Wright Brothers, the Studebakers, and Abraham Lincoln.


My people didn't get here until the late 1800s




Charlie

Daniel Boone and the Blevins Longhunters are in the family tree.

Have an ancestor, or a brother of my ancestor, who was a horse rustler. He rode with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and there are a couple of photos of him and the Wild Bunch. I didn't know much about him until my son did a school project and found some mug shots, records of time spent in prison, and stories about the Pinkerton Detectives trailing him and a herd of stolen horses. He was involved in the 1900 Tipton train robbery.

Okay, maybe not one to be proud of but at least interesting.

Anybody related to Jeffrey Dahmer?

Related to the Hazen family,which was a prominent family in the eastern U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries.They came over on the Mayflower,fought in the Revolution,was with Washington at Valley Forge.Their name appears on the rolls during many of the prominent Indian wars in the east.That's one side of the family,the other side came from Quebec,most of those records are written in French so we never had them interpeted.There was a lot of intermarriage with different tribes,if I recall right the term "half breed" came up alot.

I’ll need to chew on that!

lol ... you can pick your friends and ya can pick youre nose... but ya cant pick your relatives... good story keep em comeing !!

Steve...It's whats for dinner.

I'm somehow related to Gotzum Borglum. He was the racist who carved the four faces on Mount Rushmore and didn't include any minorities.

Being half Ukrainian and the rest German and Irish, I tell most folks I come from a long line of Gypsies and Horse thieves. We are built for stealing chickens and running under fences with them in hand, as well as engaging in other acts of skullduggery.

I have not heard of any ancestors of historical note except possibly my Uncle Roy, who was arrested while being Santa Claus in Portage, WI. He had a wife and kids here in Wisconsin, left them and travelled with the carnivals across the U.S. and Mexico, then had another family in California which he also left. I have the original newspaper photo of him in his Santa suit behind bars.

My great-Grandfather, who shot half his hand off with a side by side shotgun while crossing a fence, apparently went to Alaska during the Gold Rush. He also served as the Sheriff in Buffalo New York, and we have a picture of him leaning against the wall of the jail in an old chair. My Grandfather had his old Colt .45 revolver in his jewelry store for protection, but, not surprisingly, we have never located it and assume that old Uncle Roy stole it.

Moosetrot

My momma plaid the piano for silent movies when she was a teen. We ain’t famous yet.

I knew your great grandfather !! He was famous for saying...................."on the other hand"......

Your uncle Roy was a dirt bag thief !!

We knew him well up here !!



I guess I better confess to being a great great nephew of Kit Carson on my mother's side.......or some part..........
Also think I am related to this jerk

My old man used to rob my sisters and my piggy banks to buy beer. That count?

My Grandmother on my Dads side was supposed to be related to J.C. Penney.

That would be quite an honor...When J.C.Penney started out he tithed 10% of his earnings like normal Christians....
Later on he tithed 90% of his earnings, and kept the rest for his own purposes.

Incredible testament to faith, and blessings in prosperity.

I've never researched my family before the Civil War. I know my dad's side left North Georgia after that war. I believe the original Staton's settled in North Carolina from England.
My Great GrandPa was a deputy sheriff in the early 20th century. I had a Great Uncle KIA while on a bombing run over Berlin.

... White... you’re related to eustace Conway ? Lol

Andrew, we may be related! Family history goes that I too am related to Robert E. Lee as well as Gen. George Armstrong Custer.

I'd have to see White's teeth, but he might just make it in eastern Ky.

Most folks wouldn't admit something like that, and they dang sure wouldn't put an exclamation on it.

Andrew
If I were you I'd be claiming Clint was my old man.

Not proud of it but my wife is related to Tito.

By golly Savell, now that you mention it, there is a striking resemblance there.

Zim

Somewhere down the line Judge Parker the hanging judge was a uncle or something.

Jackson of the Jackson 5?

Hi Zim.... do you have any famous relatives?

.... probably not ...because I can’t think of even one bohemian that was famous for anything lol

No one terribly famous, but proud to be one of the Mayflower descendants of 2 families, 3 relatives in the revolution (all Patriots), 7 civil war relatives and a 190 year family history in Wisconsin.

Hey you hillbilly ! I'm part Bohemian, and FAMOUS too.


Been in a movie and in paintings in rich folks' homes.


Charlie

...a movie? ... were you the backup stunt double in brokeback mountain? ... I know Jtrap was the lead lol

.. you know I’Chas lol

My oldest daughter was runner up for Miss Maine. That kinda counts but other than that, I'm mongrel.

Look up "My Antonia", Jeremy.

I'm the guy totin the box at the train station, when Doogie Houser looks out of the train window, TWICE.

Here's a couple paintings I'm in.












Charlie

Very cool Charlie!! You've kept that beard in good shape!

Anybody have any Andrews blood line out of colonial Massachusetts...? Mine was supposedly here since the 1660s. I also have Fraser out of Nova Scotia where my grandma came down to Mass about early WWI time. She died when my mom was only 7 or 8 and must not have told grandpa much about her past because my mom didn't even know her grandma's name in NS, only her grandpa's, a Daniel Fraser. We were in NS in the early 1990s and I tried looking up marriage certificates of Daniel Frasers in Antiquish County during about a 15-year target window and only came up with 9, so still don't know my great-grandma's name on my mom's side.

My Kraut side is way newer, only in the US since 1873. German name but one of my cousins who was into genealogy had some evidence that they may have "started" out in the Basque country of Spain, came across southern France (there's a city of my name there but I think the Frenchies pronounce it differently) and into what became sw Germany by the 1300s. Supposedly the German name means "watcher of herds at night" so maybe we're related back to the shepherds of the Biblical days. My immediate people split what would become southwest Germany right at the end of the Napoleonic Wars by going down the Danube to the Black Sea and then becoming good German farmers for the Tsars in south part of their empire (in Ukraine). The people felt better being closer to the Holy Land so maybe they knew something. My people had a good deal from the Tsars for about 2 generations and then the rules changed. My family left the for the USA the same year the rules changed, as did most of their village and a lot of other Germans who were living in the south of the Russian empire.

... looked it up Chas... very nice... I hope you’re not the reason ol doogie ended up that way because of that second look lol

.... take care movie star.. I’ve got to lay out the bed roll at some point tonight

My parents told me some guy with the last name of Clark shows up in our genealogy. He took a boat ride with a guy with the last name of Lewis on the Corp of Discovery.

Very nice.

For me just french canadian trappers.

Interesting heritage some of you had.

well did a dna test on mom a few years ago , and her grand mother side has two different Indian tribes in it ,she could be has much as 37 % , ask her why they never got cards ,she said when she was young people thru rocks at half breeds , the only famous person in our family tree was a old trapper that live in the woods with his dogs for years , up here in the U P of Michigan , and then moved around for a while and end up in south Dakota , he known has LAW DOG

On my mom's side of the family I'm related to Benjamin Franklin. And on my dad's side his Great Grandfather was a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River by the name of James Ward. Here's a little history on him, Abraham Lincoln was the lawyer against him.

Daniel Boone is in my family tree. Very shirt-tail.

and no ... we're not Kin

Now Thats Awesome

Traced my Dads side back to Scotland, The Bruce was my 23rd Great-Grandfather, not surprising to anyone still surviving that their ancestry somewhere along the line contains royalty, but this story will stick with me. Different times lol

"Sir Henry de Bohun (died 23 June 1314) was an English knight, the grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce. Riding in the vanguard of heavy cavalry, de Bohun caught sight of the Scottish king who was mounted on a small palfrey (ane gay palfray Li till and joly) armed only with a battle-axe.[1] De Bohun lowered his lance and charged, but Bruce stood his ground. At the last moment Bruce maneuvered his mount nimbly to one side, stood up in his stirrups and hit de Bohun so hard with his axe that he split his helmet and head in two . Despite the great risk the King had taken, he merely expressed regret that he had broken the shaft of his favorite axe."

Andrew, we may be related! Family history goes that I too am related to Robert E. Lee as well as Gen. George Armstrong Custer. [/quote]
Most folks wouldn't admit something like that, and they dang sure wouldn't put an exclamation on it. [/quote]
Admit to being related to Custer??

I come from a line of mentally ill abusers, wife beaters, and child abandoners. Not much to be proud of. My future relatives will be able to speak better about their ancestors, though.

Many years ago I had a milk cow named Elsie.

I'm a descendent of Adam & Eve . . . or Cheetah . . . does that count?

Was she contented?

Hit by a train condensed now.

I am descended from Lord De La War from which the word Delaware came.

My great, great grandmother was a cousin of Johns Hopkins. That family has been in Maryland since the mid 1600's.

When the Continental Army left Philadelphia they first camped at a place called Whitemarsh before going to Valley Forge. That property was owned by an ancestor of mine named West.
Washington deemed him such a patriot that he told his troops not to cut firewood on the property

Abraham, Noah and Adam, that's not to shabby...

... speaking of movies Chas.... folks think my dad is Clint Eastwood ... only a little meaner lol

People think I'm Clint Eastwood, but a tad better looking. I don't make a big deal out of it.