Is anyone related to someone famous (or Infamous?)
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I AM related to Joe DiMaggio. Sending you a PM now. If you really ARE related to him, then you and i must be related! This is too funny!!
Scan of old family pic (my two uncles on the outside and my grandfather next to Joe D)
http://photos.imageevent.com/trekgirl/gifs/websize/joed.jpg
According to my aunt who's a genealogy nut, our family is descended from Robert the Bruce, but since he had like a bunch of illegitimate children, a lot of people with Scottish ancestry are probably descended from him. I'm also supposedly a descendant of Henry Knox (Revolutionary General and the first U.S. Secretary of War) through my mother's side, but I haven't found any children of Knox's own surviving offspring. Then again, I don't have the resources my aunt has, so maybe she knows something I don't.
My grandfather was apparently a professional wrestler for a time. He went by the moniker "The Farm Boy from Milford". I hear wrestling was pretty rough in those days. It's funny because when I knew him he was the kindest, gentlest man you can imagine.
My uncle was the only person in history to escape from Clermont County Prison. My other uncle on that side of the family could play a mean guitar and wrote racist ballads with names like "White Man, Take a Stand".
I come from rural southern Ohio originally.
My uncle was the only person in history to escape from Clermont County Prison. My other uncle on that side of the family could play a mean guitar and wrote racist ballads with names like "White Man, Take a Stand".
I come from rural southern Ohio originally.
Yup, and quite a large proportion of the UK population also has Henry VIII and Charles II as an ancestor -- probably multiple times.
Supposedly I am descended from William the Conqueror via one of the daughters.
I think that would make me my families most famous member
...aside from my uncle who was exposed in a national newspaper as being a drug dealing, cross dressing, money laundering git.
For some reason your cousin always reminded me of Mark Hamill in that role.
Too bad it was canceled. I heard they wanted to use his character in the 2nd season.
Isn't that 'The Pool Guy' from Seinfeld? Or am I thinking of someone else?
My father-in-law has a couple of cousins who have some claim to fame. One owns a couple of Casino shows in Las Vegas. The other (brother of the first one, I think) is a guy named Rod Stewart (not THE Rod Stewart). He grew up with the Beach Boys and was a member of the band before they became famous. His dad told him the band would never amount to anything and made him quit. I've actually heard the rumor that Rod Stewart (meaning the more famous British one) used to play with the Beach Boys. Well, it's half right.
Wow that's a coincidence. I am related to Eve. Small world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
May or may not be related to him, but when my father played minor league baseball he was manged by Joe's brother Vince who also played in the majors.
This is two degrees of separation rather than actually being related, but I just have to share...
You know that scene in the movie Ed Wood where Bela Lugosi commits himself to the LA County Hospital due to his addiction to heroin or whatever it was (I think it was heroin in the movie but laudanum or something in real life)? Well my mother, who was a student nurse at the time, was actually at the desk the night he committed himself. According to Mom, the other nurses weren't 100 percent sure he was who he said he was - I mean, people can claim to be all kinds of folks when they commit themselves to a county hospital in the middle of the night - but my mother said, "No, I really think it's him."
You know that scene in the movie Ed Wood where Bela Lugosi commits himself to the LA County Hospital due to his addiction to heroin or whatever it was (I think it was heroin in the movie but laudanum or something in real life)? Well my mother, who was a student nurse at the time, was actually at the desk the night he committed himself. According to Mom, the other nurses weren't 100 percent sure he was who he said he was - I mean, people can claim to be all kinds of folks when they commit themselves to a county hospital in the middle of the night - but my mother said, "No, I really think it's him."
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