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Topic: Are you related to anyone famous?
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ListensToTrees
Knowflake Posts: 5166
From: Infinity
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 17, 2008 04:49 PM
 
(Just feel like having a bit of light-hearted fun to distract from the triviality of "seriousness").  Here's my grandad's cousin (not sure if it was a first or second cousin...will check): http://www.rogerwhittaker.com/bio.htm IP: Logged |
blue moon
Moderator Posts: 2463
From: U.K
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted August 17, 2008 05:11 PM
Sorry, no. I've done a bit of my family tree and we are all sh!t-shovellers to a man. I seriously doubt I am going to hit upon royalty at any point as I head backwards. IP: Logged |
zenwarner
Knowflake Posts: 477
From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted August 17, 2008 05:18 PM
Tracing our family tree revealed some pretty nasty people to.
Im pretty sure my ancestors were slave owners. Im about 90% sure that they owned T.D. Jakes ancestors. If you dont know who he is, he is a very well known pastor in Tx. He has a megachurch and his own television program.
Makes me sick to be descended from them.
Then again, I am also descended from a slave on my mothers side many many many many generations back. I find it fascinating. Not to mention the copious amounts of Native American ancestors.I got off topic a bit. No, I am not related to anyone famous. Im only connected to someone in a terrible way. IP: Logged |
Charlotte
Knowflake Posts: 1753
From: USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted August 17, 2008 05:30 PM
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ListensToTrees
Knowflake Posts: 5166
From: Infinity
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 17, 2008 05:43 PM
Don't worry, my Grandad reckoned he also found a (distant!) connection to Oliver Cromwell in my family tree somewhere too!  A friend of mine posted a link to someone well known who he is related to who founded a humanist movement, and that is what got me remembering Roger...I haven't thought about the connection for years as I was never really interested. But hey, this is fun...I never realized Roger Whitakker had written so much stuff! Gosh! He's still healthy by the looks of him in a video this year too! He even got mentioned in an episode of my favourite TV series, Life On Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Whittaker He is only a distant relative, but I can see the facial similarity- very similar to the face shape of my Great Aunt, my Grandad's sister, who was a headmistress at an infants school; his parents also wanted him to be a teacher, but he didn't want to be (rebel, lol)....so it looks like there was a leaning towards this profession in the family (his father was a shoe maker though).
(Come to think of it, my mum also has the face shape!). Anyway, it doesn't really matter who we are descended from....We are all sovereign human beings....an expression of infinite consciousness having an experience through us...... why don't we all recognize the divinity in each and every one of ourselves and reach for the stars...our dreams? I suffer from low self-esteem, but after reading about Roger and listening to an uplifting interview (with David Wilcock.....sorry....just find him fascinating).....I am feeling uplifted.  -------------------- My other ancestors, on the other hand....were mostly dirt poor.....I have a great grandad who was beheaded in a flour mill and who's wife and children were turned out onto the streets with all their belongings after his death....I have a grandmother who had to sing in the street as a little girl to collect some money because she had no shoes for her feet....in those days families would have to go by and knock on all the doors of their relatives, etc for any leftovers when they were short of food.....*sigh* (Pity she didn't know my mother's grandfather at the time; he could have made her some shoes!). IP: Logged |
ListensToTrees
Knowflake Posts: 5166
From: Infinity
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 17, 2008 05:57 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUBlSuHY38Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_1LJaoaEU&feature=related IP: Logged |
PeaceAngel
Knowflake Posts: 1415
From: Australia
Registered: May 2008
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posted August 18, 2008 10:23 AM
the man that played the bad guy in the movie "jewel of the nile" is my dad's cousin. he remembers they used to play together as kids.my husband's side are related to author colleen mccullough somewhere down the line. and one day i'll be married to robert downey jr - but i'll tell you about that then. (well, in my dreams anyway - he's already happily taken, damn it). ah, lol. IP: Logged |
ListensToTrees
Knowflake Posts: 5166
From: Infinity
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 18, 2008 09:15 PM
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CrimsonChyld
Knowflake Posts: 147
From: Murray, UT
Registered: May 2008
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posted August 19, 2008 02:10 PM
Well my mom says somewhere down the line I'm related to Sir Isaac Newton.And there's someone who was hung in the Salem witch trials who I'm supposedly related to.. LOL!
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