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| Canadian farmgirl |
Posted - Jan 17 2010 : 08:39:31 AM
Do you have any famous relatives? I have been doing my family genealogy, and have recently discovered that I have a very well-known third cousin:
James Cameron, director of Avatar and Titanic!!
(and no, he has no idea who I am... ) He left Canada a long time ago!
Let's see who else has famous relatives...
Lori
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| Kayce |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 4:58:50 PM
Lol, My fiance is a decendant of the McCoy family from the Hatfield and McCoy.
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 4:19:28 PM
Ah ha! I was hoping to read that two farmgirls would eventually connect through a mutual famous relative! What fun! Congratulations Beth and Noelle! :) What fun.
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| edlund33 |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 7:32:28 PM
Wow - there are some really interesting stories on this thread! Ever wonder what people will think of our behavior in a few hundred years?
I am related to William E. "Buffalo Bill" Mathewson. He was a frontiersman who helped many pioneers and settlers during the winter of 1861 by killing buffalo and giving them away to starving families on the prairie. Because of this good deed he earned the title of "Buffalo Bill" years before the legendary Bill Cody brought the term to national fame. Later William befriended the Kiowa indians and helped the US government negotiate treaties with the indians so that the railroads could be built through Kansas. He was also founding father of the city of Wichita.
Discovering this connection was quite by accident! I was visiting Wichita Kansas two years ago after attending a drawing class in Manhattan. While driving out to the suburbs tour the Frank Lloyd Wright Allen House I noticed a school, a street, and several other complexes named Mathewson (spelled with one t) which is my maternal grandfather's last name. I became very curious because this is an unusual spelling. I finally stopped at a library to inquire about the name. While reading an article the librarian found for me I recognized the names of his parents from a genealogy report my maternal Aunt had sent me. My only regret was that I found out about this man on the last day of my trip. Someday I'm hoping to visit Kansas again so I can go to some museums to learn more about him.
And of course.....enjoy that great big gorgeous blue sky and miles and miles of farmland and prairies! I've been to Kansas twice and I absolutely love it there!
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 6:06:00 PM
Noelle it looks like we might be related. LOL My great grandmother was an Adams, (John and John Quincy) and she married the son of the Governor of Texas who was a Runnels. Her name was Addie and she had two sisters. That is about all I know except that the sisters were the Mothers of Bob and Cole Younger and The Dalton's from Colorado. Addie was my Fathers Grandmother. I really don't know much more than that.
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| kentuckywoman |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 5:53:56 PM
This is such an interesting thread idea!
On my mom's side, I am related to Jenny Wiley who was a legendary pioneer woman who was taken captive by native Americans and escaped. We have also traced our family tree to Princess Diana!
This isn't famous but my dad's side of the family has a lot of Cherokee and I was actually born with large Mongolian spots because of it. My Cherokee mamaw just passed away and was so healthy and strong. She had never been really sick at all, not been in the hospital, and died of old age at 105. |
| knit_by_the_moonlight |
Posted - Feb 02 2010 : 3:41:30 PM
I am related to John Adams and John Quincy Adams...we believe we share a great grandfather in our family tree. An uncle, Orry Adams, gave some of the dishes from the White House to my great-grandmother. We are still trying to prove the link...so if anyone has any info on how Orry Adams is related to John and John Quincy we would sure appreciate it! Also, we have french ancestors that explored the New World with Samuel De Champlain.... very cool. Must have been interesting during the French and Indian War. Wonder who fought for whom?
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| 2quilter |
Posted - Jan 23 2010 : 05:05:45 AM
My uncle is SERIOUSLY in to geneology...and he was so excited not very long ago to report that the fam is distant cousins to Daniel and Squire Boone (I think everyone in this general area are)...He's found record of fam being in the Civil war, the American Revolution, and one guy who was a merchant ship boat captain from England around/before the time the country was founded....he's also found links to a couple of presidents (I forget which...Lincoln was one of them)...the guy who started Girdler Steel..which was the predecessor to US Steel...and my boyfriend is a direct decendant of ole' man Hatfield a/k/a/ the Hatfield and McCoy's from down in Kentucky...but like someone said earlier....we're ALL related if we go back far enough....
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| Annika |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 6:34:36 PM
I think my family in Ireland were all horse thieves and political dissidents [:I} My Texas family is just sassy and strong.....Ultimately I'm related to the Douglas clan of Scotland and should be a princess by now....need to kiss more frogs!
Annika
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| cheneygal |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 6:28:19 PM
My late hubbys father invented the old material they used to make girdles out of.....of course, not famous, but I still have the little "mock up" contraption he made to make the material on. Thanks for jogging my memory, like I said not famous but interesting.
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| Julia |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 3:31:36 PM
This really is a fun thread, I am enjoying it a lot. It is interesting.
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| Prairie Princess |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 12:38:02 PM
My goodness, what a fun thread! I'm headed to ancestry.com now to see who I can find.......... hmm.
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| KayB |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 10:44:52 AM
I had ancestors who traveled from Missouri to Salt Lake City with Brigham Young. And we are supposedly somehow related to the Buckinghams of England. I know at one time there was paperwork proving I had ancestors in the Revolutionary War.
KayB
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| Old Spirit |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 08:52:43 AM
Not related to anyone but my great grandmother rented a room to John Dilanger in Chicago shortly before he was killed.
Rae
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| Lynner |
Posted - Jan 21 2010 : 05:13:30 AM
Julia, that is very interesting. I am related to no one famous, but found it interesting that you are related to Elizabeth Elliot. She is a very close friend to my husbands cousins wife. And the mission we were with early in our marriage, has been working with those indians that killed Elizabeths husband so many years ago. And so we followed her life for a while. I am sure you are aware that the movie End of the Spear was about the three missionaries killed in those early days.
All of this is quite interesting reading about who all of you are related to. Cool
Sheri
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 10:35:47 PM
OH>>>I thought of one!!! I am related to Kristi Yamaguchi ...well, sort of....She is the neice of my ex sister in law's second husband. I met her at their wedding..very sweet.
Jenny in Utah
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 9:36:26 PM
Shirt-tail relative but still, Paul Lynde (Hollywood Squares) was first cousin to my first husband in Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Harry Morgan (MASH) was neighbor to my current husband's first cousin in Muskegon, MI.
So I've got a Hollywood connection!
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 9:10:02 PM
Here's another...Branson as in Branson Missouri. He was the postmaster. Branson was my grandmother's maiden name. Not sure how many generations back to the postmaster. Family legend links us to the Bunkers of Bunker Hill too...but I haven't been able to verify that one. Still working on verifying some other really old links to US history.
Geneology is a lot of fun. Good reminder to be nice to everyone you meet. Could be family. :)
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| melodie |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 9:09:06 PM
Julia...Wouldn't that be something? It is a small world. Ever hear of 6-degrees of separation? Wikipedia defines it as:
Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth. It was popularized by a play written by John Guare.
Now that's an interesting theory!
Mel
Mel
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| Julia |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 8:31:56 PM
Melodie, that is really interesting. My grandfather had a real love for the Native Americans. He along with a few other men started a bible college in AZ in the '40's for them. It still exsists today.. He learned to speak Navajo, and as a girl, loved to hear speak it and tell us stories of the Indian people he knew. He also had a heart, and dream to go to Metlakatla, Alaska, to work among the people there, never made it. In his 60's he got his Doctorate in Anthopology. I wonder if your Gr. Uncle and my G'pa ever met.
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| melodie |
Posted - Jan 20 2010 : 8:12:48 PM
As you can see I have a famous relative. He was my great uncle; my Grandfather's brother....
Harry Hoijer (September 6, 1904 - March 11, 1976) was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture.He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct. Hoijer's few works, sadly, make up the bulk of material on this language.Hoijer was a student of Edward Sapir.Hoijer contributed greatly to the documentation of the Southern and Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages and to the reconstruction of proto-Athabaskan.Harry Hoijer collected a large number of valuable fieldnotes on many Athabaskan languages, which are unpublished. Some of his notes on Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa language are lost.
Works by Hoijer
[Beals, Ralph L].; & Hoijer, Harry. (1953). An introduction to anthropology. New York: Macmillan Company. (Republished 1959, 1965, and 1971).
Hoijer, Harry. (n.d.). Chiricahua Apache stems. [Unpublished manuscript].
Hoijer, Harry. (n.d.). Mescalero Apache stems. [Unpublished manuscript].
Hoijer, Harry. (1933). Tonkawa: An Indian language of Texas. New York: Columbia University. (Extract from Handbook of American Indian languages, Vol. 3).
Hoijer, Harry. (1938). The southern Athapaskan languages. American Anthropologist, 40 (1), 75-87.
Hoijer, Harry. (1939). Chiricahua loan-words from Spanish. Language, 15 (2), 110-115.
Hoijer, Harry. (1943). Pitch accent in the Apachean languages. Language, 19 (1), 38-41.
Hoijer, Harry. (1945). Navaho phonology. University of New Mexico publications in anthropology, (No. 1).
Hoijer, Harry. (1945). Classificatory verb stems in the Apachean languages. International Journal of American Linguistics, 11 (1), 13-23.
Hoijer, Harry. (1945). The Apachean verb, part I: Verb structure and pronominal prefixes. International Journal of American Linguistics, 11 (4), 193-203.
Hoijer, Harry. (1946). Chiricahua Apache. In C. Osgood (Ed.), Linguistic structures in North America. New York: Wenner-Green Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Hoijer, Harry. (1946). The Apachean verb, part II: The prefixes for mode and tense. International Journal of American Linguistics, 12 (1), 1-13.
Hoijer, Harry. (1946). The Apachean verb, part III: The classifiers. International Journal of American Linguistics, 12 (2), 51-59.
Hoijer, Harry. (1948). Linguistic and cultural change. Language, 24 (4), 335-345.
Hoijer, Harry. (1948). The Apachean verb, part IV: Major form classes. International Journal of American Linguistics, 14 (4), 247–259.
Hoijer, Harry. (1949). The Apachean verb, part V: The theme and prefix complex. International Journal of American Linguistics, 15 (1), 12–22.
Hoijer, Harry. (1951). “Cultural Implications of Some Navaho Linguistic Categories.” Language. 27: 111-120.
Hoijer, Harry. (1956). Athapaskan kinship systems. American Anthropologist, 58 (2), 309-333.
Hoijer, Harry. (1956). The Chronology of the Athapaskan languages. International Journal of American Linguistics, 22 (4), 219-232.
Hoijer, Harry. (1963). The Athapaskan languages. In H. Hoijer (Ed.), Studies in the Athapaskan languages (pp. 1-29). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hoijer, Harry. (1966). “Navaho.” Lingua. 17: 88-102.
Hoijer, Harry. (1966). “Galice Athapaskan: A Grammatical Sketch.” International Journal of American Linguistics. 32(4): 320-327.
Hoijer, Harry. (1968). “Navaho Reference Verbs and Verb Expressions Made Up of Two Verb Forms.” International Journal of American Linguistics 34(3): 176-182.
Hoijer, Harry. (1969). “Internal Reconstruction in Navaho.” Word. 25: 154-159.
Hoijer, Harry. (1970). A Navajo lexicon. University of California Publications in Linguistics (No. 78). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hoijer, Harry. (1971). Athapaskan morphology. In J. Saywer (Ed.), Studies in American Indian languages (pp. 113-147). University of California publications in linguistics (No. 65). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hoijer, Harry. (1971). The position of the Apachean languages in the Athpaskan stock. In K. H. Basso & M. E. Opler (Eds.), Apachean culture history and ethnology (pp. 3-6). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Hoijer, Harry. (1971). “Patterns of Meaning in Navaho.” In Themes in Culture. (eds. Zamora, Mario; Mahar, J.M.; and Orenstein, Henry.). Quezon City: Kayumanggi Publishers. 227-237.
Hoijer, Harry. (1975). The history and customs of the Lipan, as told by Augustina Zuazua. Linguistics, 161, 5-38.
Hoijer, Harry; & Opler, Morris E. (1938). Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache texts. The University of Chicago publications in anthropology; Linguistic series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Reprinted 1964 by Chicago: University of Chicago Press; in 1970 by Chicago: University of Chicago Press; & in 1980 under H. Hoijer by New York: AMS Press, ISBN 0-404-15783-1).
Opler, Morris E.; & Hoijer, Harry. (1940). The raid and war-path language of the Chiricahua Apache. American Anthropologist, 42 (4), 617-634.
[edit]Works edited by Hoijer
Hoijer, Harry (Ed.). (1963). Studies in the Athapaskan languages. University of California publications in linguistics (No. 29). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sapir, Edward, & Hoijer, Harry. (1967). Navaho texts. William Dwight Whitney series, Linguistic Society of America.
Sapir, Edward, & Hoijer, Harry. (1967). Phonology and morphology of the Navaho language. Berkeley: University of California Press.
WHEW!
I think that I inherited his love of linguistics and also my intense interest in the history of our Native American sisters and brothers.
Mel
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 07:12:54 AM
I've never done my geneology, but my maiden name is Sears and I often wonder... I have no direct kin with anyone famous that I'm aware of. However, my 3rd or 4th cousin is Melvin Lenz of woodchopping fame. He can be seen on any ESPN wood chop championship!
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| Kayce |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 07:06:48 AM
On my father's mother's side I am related to the Clarks that invented and owned Clarks ONT started in Paisley Scottland and merged to what we all now know as Coats and Clarks Thread. :)
My son's middle name is Clark as was my father's etc. due to the women offspring change their name when we get married 
~Kayce~
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| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 05:42:30 AM
Davey Crockett - my 53rd cousin. My aunts always claimed that, and my mom backed it up with her geneology. She also tells me I'm supposed to be some kind of princess, because one of my ancestors was the king of Prussia -- that is, before he escaped with just the shirt off his back in a hay wagon, before they burned the palace. Just my luck. He left the family riches (and my tiara!) behind in the palace!
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| debbies journey |
Posted - Jan 18 2010 : 10:09:20 PM
Hi
I'm also related to the younger brothers. I checked out a book from the library that one of them
wrote. It was interesting, but I don't think it was intirely true, because he had to deny even knowing
the James gang to try to get paroled! ha
Debbie |
| simplyflowers |
Posted - Jan 18 2010 : 5:48:47 PM
Awesome topic!!! I have no famous relations or anything. But neat to hear about yours!
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