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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2012 15:11:03 GMT
In reply to a reference to Amelia Earhart, Kimby wrote: And she was my 13th cousin twice removed. Or something like that. What about the rest of you? Who has ties to the famous or infamous, no matter how tenuous?
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Post by Breeze on Jul 3, 2012 16:47:56 GMT
We have the same family name as Hans Sachs, the meistersinger, born 1494 so the link is pretty tenuous these 500 years later. But we'll take it because that's all we have. Everybody I knew when I was a kid had famous relatives. I asked my mom who ours were, and she said we were descended from robbers and horse thieves.
She could not name names, though.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 3, 2012 16:57:31 GMT
A distant cousin of mine published a book on the family that included my paternal grandmother. The picture I found fascinating was a photo of a team of Clydesdale horses pulling a cart of Carling beer kegs. When reading through those pages I found that her family was related to the original owners of Carling Breweries here in Canada.
I spent years working on the family ancestry on all four of mine and my husbands names. After visiting Versailles and seeing a statue of an Admiral and Marshall of France with my husbands name, I began the search to see if they were related.
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Post by rikita on Jul 4, 2012 19:18:16 GMT
not relatives, but my dad played hide-and-go-seek with angela merkel once.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 4, 2012 20:37:02 GMT
Oh that is an interesting story Rikita!
I had my picture taken with the then Premier of Ontario and now Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. We were visiting our friends in Ottawa and we used to love going to the Hill after a walk down in the Market to look at all the statues of past Leaders of our Governments. He happened to come out the doors of the Parliament Building seen me and came right over to shake my hand to the giggles of my husband and friends.
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Post by joanne28 on Jul 6, 2012 2:06:26 GMT
No famous ancestors - I come from a long line of healthy peasants.
However, Jacques Villeneuve (F1 driver) and I are related as his grandmother and my father were cousins. I don't know what that makes us in the "second cousins three times removed" sense, but in Québec it makes us family. The only time I met him was when he was about 6 or 7 at a tournée. He was there with his parents, Gilles and Joann. He was quite whiny - they had flown in from Monaco. It was probably around 1977.
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Post by rikita on Jul 6, 2012 19:57:52 GMT
oh and just remembered, mr. r. once interviewed gerhard schröder for his school newspaper...
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