Famous ancestors or relatives

**Anglojew** · 12-16-2012, 07:35 AM

I'm descended from Charlemagne, King David and distantly related to Winston Churchill.

I'm wondering if other members are descended or related to anyone famous also?

**Annihilus** · 12-16-2012, 08:06 AM

Harry Potter is my cousin.

**ficuscarica** · 12-16-2012, 08:09 AM

Is that a joke? Do you have genealogies reaching thousands of years back? I have genealogies reaching 300 years back, and that´s already rather rare.

I don´t have really famous ancestors, but the guys who invented the bicycle and the car(!) were born in the same city as I.
On my mother´s side I also have mayor(s?) in the family line, but only of a small town.

**Rouxinol** · 12-16-2012, 08:13 AM

I'm descended from king Alfonso I of Portugal and prince Henry the Navigator.

**Anglojew** · 12-16-2012, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Labrador

I'm descended from king Alfonso I of Portugal and prince Henry the Navigator.

Impressive.

**Anglojew** · 12-16-2012, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by ficuscarica

Is that a joke? Do you have genealogies reaching thousands of years back? I have genealogies reaching 300 years back, and that´s already rather rare.

I don´t have really famous ancestors, but the guys who invented the bicycle and the car(!) were born in the same city as I.
On my mother´s side I also have mayor(s?) in the family line, but only of a small town.

No, descended from medieval French Rabbi of the Davidic line and an English Aristocrat descended from Charlemagne, If I remember correctly through a Byzantine princess.

**ficuscarica** · 12-16-2012, 08:35 AM

That´s quite impressive, the best of the two worlds combined.

You should add "Franks" to your Meta-Ethnicities then.

**Anglojew** · 12-16-2012, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by ficuscarica

That´s quite impressive, the best of the two worlds combined.

You should add "Franks" to your Meta-Ethnicities then.

I don't think an ancestor 1200 years ago makes me very Frankish. There's millions of defendants of Charlemagne according to scholars.

The King David one is very accepted and researched in Jewish genology. Jews kept records of these things and research such as the so- called Cohen gene shows there's a scientific basis to Jewish beliefs.