Famous ancestors or relatives

[Graham]

Pol Pot, we both share a same ancestor. My gg Grandparent.

[Anglojew]

My great grandmother came from the same town as the composer Joseph Haydn and shared the composers surname, however I don't think they were related.

How big was the town? What does Haydn mean? If its not an occupational name and not common and it wasn't a big town then you probably are related.

[Anglojew]

I recently found out I have distant connections with Leif Eriksson, King Arthur and Ivan the Terrible.

Are you being serious?

King Arthur isn't a historical figure (well at least not proved although some link him to a British-Roman leader).

[Piparskeggr]

My most famous relation about who I am sure, my dad's 1st cousin on his father's side.



A more distant cousin on my mom's mother's side.

[Lathander]

The only thing interesting in my family is that my father's cousin is working for national intelligence service.He was known as a journalist\photoghrapher who works independent,made a local newspaper for a small town which wouldn't sell to make him earn money.He went abroad sometimes.Then my father learned he was recorded as a "government official" in archives and earning wage.I never asked him directly,I see him once a year maybe less,but sometimes he indirectly mentioned after the word was spread in family.

[Smaug]

Are you being serious?

King Arthur isn't a historical figure (well at least not proved although some link him to a British-Roman leader).

Haha, of course I'm joking, but I always joke I'm like King Arthur because I'm a British-Italian mix.

Maybe I'm also a descendant of King David, maybe I have some very distant Ashkenazi ancestry down my Lithuanian ancestry. There were many Ashkenazim living in Lithuania before WWII.

[Caismeachd]

Pol Pot, we both share a same ancestor. My gg Grandparent.

Wtf is wrong with you. That's something you should never admit.

[Anglojew]

Haha, of course I'm joking, but I always joke I'm like King Arthur because I'm a British-Italian mix.

Maybe I'm also a descendant of King David, maybe I have some very distant Ashkenazi ancestry down my Lithuanian ancestry. There were many Ashkenazim living in Lithuania before WWII.

The most common descent from King David is descendants of the famous Rabbi Rashi (like myself) who;

Rashi was an only child born at Troyes, Champagne, in northern France. His mother's brother was Simon the Elder, Rabbi of Mainz.[5] Simon was a disciple of Rabbeinu Gershom Meor HaGolah,[6] who died that same year. On his father's side, Rashi has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of Yochanan Hasandlar, who was a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel the Elder, who was reputedly descended from the royal line of King David.

Like anything that old there's some dispute about it.

[Smaug]

Joking apart, I know I have an ancestor, Ludovic Middleton, that was a Scottish general, he lived in the 17th century, but I don't think he is famous or important, and my family doesn't know very much about him. I also know that my pre-WWI Lithuanian ancestors were rich, but I also don't think they were famous and important in that country.

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz]

This guy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ro...tor_and_martyr)



Other than him pretty much peasant stock as far back as i go.