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CBarla		#81	[-]
Posts: 2671 (06/14/2008 12:47 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My mom and dad are one month apart in birth and both remarried people who were 7 years younger than them exactly. I have a great uncle who saved people from a burning boat, he has a plaque dedicated to him in my city's downtown library. I've got another relative whose pictures of Alaska (I think) are in the Smithsonian because my grandmother didn't know what else to do with them, they were a big deal I guess. In the last 3 generations on my mom's side.. a girl has been the first child and a boy, the second. My great grandfather was friends with Andre the Giant My great grandfather was a Kennedy. I was told that there was a very distant relation. He used to get Christmas cards from them. The real Barnabus Collins owned the land next door to my Great grandparents.
GettinHotWithJC		#82	[-]
Posts: 34227 (06/14/2008 2:15 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore
Tinkerbell053072		#83	[-]
Posts: 6947 (06/15/2008 6:18 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I come from baseball royalty: -My dad pitched for the minor leagues in Boston and was a pretty decent pitcher. He declined the offer to go pro, and instead went to nursing school and became an RN. -My godfather is/was Nolan Ryan (I'm past the age of needing a godfather so I say 'was'). He's from my mom's side of the family, and became good friends with my dad because of the baseball connection. He said to my mom 'If you have a girl, I want to be her godfather. If you have a boy, keep trying!' Instead of the usual religious gift that most godparents give to their godchild at their baptism/christening, he gave me 2 season tickets at Fenway for life right near the visitors dugout so he could see me at his games. My dad owns the 2 seats next to mine which he inherited from his dad when he passed away. My oldest brother is next to get the 2 seats. Gotta keep the tradition going! -Just like my dad, both of my brothers played minor league baseball and left to pursue other careers. -My dad's great uncle was part of the crew who built the Titanic which coincidentally sank 5 days before Fenway Park opened. -Both of my dad's parents came over from Ireland through Ellis Island, which is where they first met each other and then fell in love! -My mom's uncle, John Perkins, is an actor and used to be on Ryan's Hope (a soap opera from the mid 70's to late 80's) -In 2004 my dad wrote a book about the history of baseball on Cape Cod. -My mom's dad was Irish and French Canadian, her mom was French and Spaniard. She told me that its also known as being 'Black Irish'. I find the heritage mix of my late grandparents on my moms side so fascinating -My mom's uncle Cleveland worked in the White House Edited By: Tinkerbell053072 06/15/2008 6:23 PM. Edited 1 times.
JohnMayerObsessionist		#84	[-]
Posts: 3895 (06/15/2008 6:25 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My parents have the same MIDDLE name, though gender-different -- Jean and Gene. That's all I can think up right now.
abusedrail		#85	[-]
Posts: 2829 (06/15/2008 6:27 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	my great great great uncle is the founder of TIME and LIFE magazine! henry R Luce. and martha washington is like my great great great great great grandma! my mom is the youngest of 10 children. she grew up very poor in oaxaca mexico and rasied by her mom only . her dad got shot for property she never knew him. she had to kill the pigs and cows to eat. and this was 1960s
Wonderers		#86	[-]
Posts: 1166 (06/15/2008 6:32 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	- My great uncle (my grandma's brother) was the navigator for the first airplane to land on Antarctica. His camera was the only one that was winterized to withstand the conditions down there at the time. His pictures appeared in Time Magazine. They also named a mountain on Antarctica after him. - Louisville, Ohio is named after one of my relatives on my dad's side. - My son, older brother and I are all born on the same day. My son was born at 10:02 am, I was born at 11:39 am and my brother was born right after noon.
insomniachollie		#87	[-]
Posts: 32247 (06/15/2008 6:35 PM) Best Fan Fic Writer '08 Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	3 of my ancestors were hung as highwaymen. Apparently their initials were carved into the tree where it was done and the carving has been redone over the years so it's still there My mother and I are the same star sign, my father and brother are the same star sign- all 4 of us are fire signs. The only member of my household who isn't is my sister. it's not that interesting but always amuses me!
laurenshelton2		#88	[-]
Posts: 3509 (06/15/2008 6:47 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Betsy Ross's first husband (John Ross) is one of my ancestors. They never had children though, so she is only a relative by marriage. At a recent family reunion, I saw a document tracing our family back to Robert the Bruce, or Robert I of Scotland. He was William Wallace's frenemy.
kaa2229		#89	[-]
Posts: 911 (06/15/2008 7:01 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I'm related on my dads side to Dr.Anspaugh from ER My maternal grandmother was a friend of the Kennedys and she had this one picture where JFK's eyes were bugged out of his head...she was pinching his ass. She was a goofball. The same grandmother was one of 5 kids who were all redheads. Her grandchildren are all brunnette execept for me, I have her red hair with my grandfathers(her husbands) thick curls. When I was little I loved to go over to her brothers and sisters house because they'd all treat me like the "redheaded princess". My parents met at a club in 1979. My mom was dancing with a gay guy and she wouldnt give my dad the time of day. So my dad punched the gay guy out. Apparently my mom found that hot. So they married a year a half later. My dad lied to my mom about how old he was, he'd pay off his family to lie to my mom about how old he was on his birthday. When he got a new ID he covered up his birth year. My mom only found out how old he was two weeks after the honeymoon when the insurance company called to verify their information. She called my dad at work and was liek "how old are you?" and all he said was "I'll be home in five minutes". My mom has 9 years on my dad. I was born 3 months premature and had a stroke at 6 weeks old. Edited By: kaa2229 06/15/2008 7:13 PM. Edited 1 times.
TYCP Sha		#90	[-]
Posts: 90908 (06/15/2008 7:12 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Off the top of my head... - My grandmother wanted to be an actress, but now she's friends with soap stars - My mother was in an all-female singing group & they toured Britain - My aunt is a professionally-trained singer - My grandfather met people like Marlon Brando & Frank Sinatra [never got the full stories] - My uncle was friends with Whitney Houston's mother & a lot of other people - A close aunt in London used to own a club called Moonlighting & celebrities used to frequent it all the time - My uncle met John Travolta years ago & when he asked if he could see Jett, John pulled the blanket back so that my uncle could see his face My cousin is "the famous jett jackson" I used to find Lee hot.
laurenshelton2		#91	[-]
Posts: 3510 (06/15/2008 7:14 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Oh, and this isn't my family, but I went to school with the daughters of the man responsible for the addition of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. He was a Presbyterian minister in DC and said in a sermon that the words should be included. Dwight Eisenhower, who was President at the time, was in attendance, agreed with him, and got the wheels moving on the process. I got to meet their dad, George Docherty, once. I always thought it was so cool that I got to meet the man who is responsible for such an important part of our country's history.
daisy bouquet		#92	[-]
Posts: 547 (06/15/2008 7:20 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My family is boring. The only things I can come up with are - I have a million relatives. I have 50 first cousins alone. I dont know any of them. - Im related to a couple past/current pro athletes and more than a few convicted felons. - My birth caused my mother to be estranged from her family.
ash lee		#93	[-]
Posts: 269 (06/15/2008 8:11 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	myself: my great grandmother was one of 17 children. She was adopted and was a twin; they never met. She only met two sibblings out of 17. i dont have a background to this but was told a member of our family helped start a major religious church... i should probably look into that. when i was born my mom didnt give me my dads last name, nor did i get my grandfathers last name. i was given her last name, which was Salyer. However, it should not have been her last name either, the man with that last name was not her father... she didnt find out until she was 15. My husband: His mom was in the khmer rouge and watched dead bodies float in her river. she has memories of speaking with a man sitting in a tree who she later found out was dead. (i know some people dont believe in ghost, but i truly believe this woman) My husbands name is no where traceable. When his dad came from Cambodia, that was the name he took. He has four brothers, all are named from the bible except his oldest who was not born in the us.
sjk1010		#94	[-]
Posts: 869 (06/15/2008 8:20 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My great grandparents were first cousins...He changed his name so he could marry her. Which actually explains a lot about my family... My parents were introduced by a friend they had in common named Lloyd....who know goes by Linda. My immediate family is numerically linked. All of our birthdays add up to 79, my parents' birth months, days and years both add up to 79 separately, and they got married in '79.
YellowStar09		#95	[-]
Posts: 5368 (06/23/2008 1:34 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I am bumping this thread cause I love reading these stories.
dlistedceleb		#96	[-]
Posts: 15316 (06/23/2008 1:50 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	LauritaK wrote: -My cousin is "the famous jett jackson" You're cousins with Lee. LOL I went to college with him and I think he hated me. He always gave me weird ass looks. He went through this stage where he wore the white painter jumpsuits. Do you know what that's about? Hmm I can't really think of anything about my family... well my great great aunt was friends with Duke Ellington. And my great great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee Indian That's all I can think of at this moment. Edited By: dlistedceleb 06/23/2008 2:05 AM. Edited 1 times.
Jenna1983		#97	[-]
Posts: 14422 (06/23/2008 2:02 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	-Hugh Hefner and my grandmother have the same set of ancestors (William Bradford & Alice Bradford). -I'm the only granddaughter on my mom's side. -My grandmother has a desk from the 1700s that no one knows but my mom, grandmother, and me (She has it hidden in the attic and has said that when she dies my mom's to just tell them it was hers as a kid...they're dumb ).
nerdnik		#98	[-]
Posts: 13294 (06/23/2008 2:06 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	dolce55 wrote: -My mom and I were both born on the 5th day of our respective birth months, while my brother and my dad were both born on the 14th of their birth months My family is kind of similar. My mom and late father's birth day was the 11th of their respective birth months, and me and my brother have our birthdays on the 7th of our respective birth months.
NingaPenguin		#99	[-]
Posts: 3284 (06/23/2008 2:10 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My great grandmother was applying to a convent in France when she met my great grandfather and decided that getting married and making babies was more fun. On my moms side there are exactly 10 of us grandchildren, 5 boys and 5 girls.
perrvy hobbit fancier		#100	[-]
Posts: 2591 (06/23/2008 2:24 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	The only thing interesting about my family is that Rudolph Valentino might have been my grandmother's real father. My great-grandmother went on a few dates with him and nine months later my grandmother came along. My Great-grandmother was married at the time when she had her affiar with Rudolph and her husband wanted nothing to do with my grandmother because he didn't believe he was her father. My grandmother was told by her godmother that Valentino might be her father. My greatgreat-Grandfather might have been involved with the mafia in some way. When he came over from Italy he used different surnames for about 20 years, and I also heard that he wanted to avenge his brother's death. I don't know if perhaps he did something to avenge his brother's death and that's why he left Italy, it seems like he didn't want to be found for those first 20 years he was in America. My greatgreat-Grandmother's biological father died in Italy from a "hunting accident". Edited By: perrvy hobbit fancier 06/23/2008 2:31 AM. Edited 1 times.

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