I'm doing our family genealogy - in fact, on both sides! On my dad's side, then I found out that we are a great, great, great, great, etc. to Charlemagne, a Roman emporer - I think. Also that we are great, etc. of one of Sir Francis Drake's brothers.
Also that a city in Texas - Calvert - was named after one of my ancestors. There is also a city in Canada named after one of my ancestors on my mom's side, too.

Anyone else got any famous stuff like that to brag about?

Sargeant York (WW I hero) was an in-law of one of my cousins in Georgia on my mother's side.

I hate to put a dampener on your exuberance, but all families have traditions of being related to famous people. Mahal's Sgt York is recent enough to be true, but most are just legends which do not stand up to real research.

These stories may be true, but please, as a piece of general advice, take them with a very large pinch of salt.

EWood, none of that stuff I just put down was passed in the family: I FOUND IT OUT MYSELF WHEN I WAS DOING OUR FAMILY TREES.

I don't have anybody that's confirmed to be famous in my family tree. There are indications that I may be related to Edgar Lee Masters, the author of Spoon River Anthology, but nothing has been confirmed.

I may also be related to Chubby from the Little Rascals, but we are having trouble confirming it because it's through a branch of the family that we have been unable to research.

I do have a couple of third great grandfathers that were named after U.S. Presidents:) Andrew Jackson Masters and George Washington Davis. Both fought for the North in the Civil War.

well, i'm related to the shalaf, a famous rabbi that most orthodox jews know about. rav kook, he was the chief rabbi of israel. david levi - foriegn minister of israel b4 peres. jacki levi, david levi's son, vice-mayor of a town called bet shaan. rav mordechai bohrer, the rabbi of gilingen germany. my cousin amnon flew one of the herculeas planes at the raid of entebee in uganda.(some people might know the story, that was when netanyahu's brother yoni got killed.)and yehuda borer first religous tour guide in all of israel.
YOu are probably sayin, who the heck are thses people. but they are famous people in jewish and isreali history.
-yafa

I am interested in finding out more about my family history. I know absolutly nothing about my biological fathers side & only a little bit about my mothers side. Anyone know of a good site? Thanx.

The most famous person in our family that we know of is the painter, Ruth Orkin.

Woops, I mean photographer. Not painter.

In tracing back my dad's family, I was pleasantly surprised to find a direct link to George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton, married to Francis Adderley. From there on back, the Douglas family is well documented. A son came to the colonies in the 1700's.

On my mother's side of the family, it traces back to Jacob Showalter/Catherine Huffman and the mennonite immigration from the Palatinate region of Germany in the 1700's.

DD