Famous ancestors or relatives

[Oneeye]

I'm a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Several famous people were also descended from them, including President John Adams and President John Quincy Adams.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

A couple but none direct-male of course. I'd rather not say so I don't have people tracking me down (not so much from here as TO here).

[Leadchucker]

Direct descendant paternally to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. All first born males in the line since have Lee as a middle name including myself.

[1stLightHorse]

Direct males:

Jassen Cullimore NHL




Francis Cullimore Rugby Union/MMA

[Jonik]

I will try to put my 5 cents (may be false coin) in this topic.
One person who currently live in US (his parents originally from Lithuania) claimed unofficially that his paternal ancestor was a cousin of one famous person for all 3 countries - Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. It's was based on his family story/history, but has been not paper proven. He wrote about:"...We believe we’re related to Adomas Mickevicius – Adam Mickiewicz in Polish ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adomas_Mickevicius ) – but not directly. Our family records go back only 5-6 generations and my GGGfather may have been a cousin...." In the past he took the genetic Y-DNA test at FTDNA and by analysis they had discovered that he have a very specific snip-mutation (with age about 1,000 years). Some FTDNA projects like "Polish" and "Lithuania Propria" call this Claster of his based haplogroup - "M" or "Rymvidas", as a part of his possible ancestor' cousin (poet) last name.
We together for 100% had one the same paternal ancestor who lived about may be around 750 years ago (about 35 generation back) (our difference -6 from 67 markers, -11 from 111 markers; I also have the same specific snip-mutation). No question about our relationship, it's true, we related in the past by direct paternal line. But if we will start to believe that his ancestor was REALLY cousin of this Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian poet (in Poland he was like Pushkin in Russia, actually they were a friends), I will to have with this poet the same paternal ancestor (about 750 years ago, about 35 generation back). Polish genealogists also proved that this poet' family related to Rymvidas, it's a very big name in Lithuania early history. I am not expert in genealogy, but OK for Y-DNA genetics.
Do I believe in his family story without paper proof? Yes, I do. How deep? About 10%. But truth should be only 100% or 0, right? Yes, but so nice to believe, even for some 10%.

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/...ion=ycolorized
haplogroup N ("Rimvydids" - N1c1a1a1a1b: L591+)
N62888 Vincentas Kiprijonas Rimvydas-Mickevicius1833 - ?
219654 Antony Jonikov Jonan, d.1856, Kalkes, Latvia

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/...ion=ycolorized
N1c1 - L591+ (M Cluster)
N62888 Vincentas Kiprijonas Rimvydas-Mickevicius1833 - ?
219654 Antony Jonikov Jonan, d.1856, Kalkes, Latvia





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[Smaug]

King Arthur, Merlin, Boudica.

[Germaniac]

Well, it is possible that I am related to the Catholic Scholar Hugo von Trimberg, although he lived in the 13th century and my paternal line genealogy only goes down to modern age. My paternal grandfather's family is Swiss, but is originally from the same region Hugo von Trimberg was from, only moving to Switzerland in the mid 18th century.

[Mazik]

Bob Nystrom, who can trace his paternal line back to the village my grandmother came from. But it's quite distant. My father is either 3rd or 4th cousin with him.

[Aunt Hilda]

I'm a distant relative of Rüdiger von Heyking. thankfully the family connection ends in the 17th century.

[Roy]

My uncle (brother of my father) write books for children, but he isn't really famous and cartoonist for the newspaper, but he isn't famous. I don't know of any other.
I went to one class with a girl related to Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the kerosene lamp among others and I knew another one who is from one of the well-known Noble families (Czartoryscy). She can call herself a princess.