I'm related to Edgar Allan Poe. I don't remember how exactly because it's convoluted, but technically he's somewhere in the chain on my mom's side of the family.
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Allegedly I’m related one one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence…and Pocahontas.
paternally I'm related to a bad man, with a hilariously terrible statue, from the us civil war era.
Ah. I’m with you there. Robert E Lee. Not super proud of it, but it’s interesting.
I can't get too specific for privacy reasons, but I'm very, very distantly related to a few doges of Venice, by maternal side. (I'm not from Italy.)
Also my grand-grandma has a street named in her honour.
Y Chromosomal Adam
OMG you & I share a common ancestor
Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Mormon church. Unfortunately since that man was a monster
About a thousand years ago, a Duke came over from Normandy as part of an invasion of my country.
He even built a castle not far from where I grew up. Sadly I'm not allowed to own that castle or live in it.
Go, and claim what is rightfully yours!
Yes but saying so would be revealing because of the last name, and I’d doxx myself
This post has convinced to ask my mom to see the family tree.
It's entirely apocryphal, but it's said my family can trace itself to the Carthaginian royal family.
Otzi the ice man according to 23&me... It's a murder mystery 🧊🧊🧊
I forget who it was, but according to ancestry, I'm related to an old US president 3 different times (dad's great grandad, dad's great grandma, moms great, great grandma). And similarly related to one of the singers of the declaration of Independence, I think from NH on both sides of my family. By marriage I am also related to a couple figures that are very famous in my local area, but I'm not gonna name because self doxxing.
But for real, my family tree has no branches, apparently.
According to my online family tree my 11th Great Grandmother is Joan Shakespeare, William Shakespeare’a sister, making The Bard my 11th Great Granduncle. When I was looking around that was the only notable one I could find who is a direct relative…if you allow 9 times removed and shit basically everyone is related to Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and Abraham Lincoln.
One of my ancestors printed some of the first US currency in 1777
Both, my grand grandparents on Father's side of the family and my grandparents on my mothers side have the surname Grimm. My luck, only one side is related to them ʘ‿ʘ
Aren't there a few million people who are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
My lineage was apparently having too much trouble with alcohol and heart disease to become famous.
Close to 40 million I think? As I recall it was said about one in 200 is a direct descendant.
That man (and many of his descendants) fucked.
Raped, I think. Some of both, but those numbers aren't the result of consensual acts.