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hmurchisonhmurchison
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in AppleOutsider edited January 2014
Ira Murchison winner of Gold medal in 1956 Olympics



I still have a lot of family in Chicago that I have yet to meet. I remember having a magazine with Ira on the cover running. I wish I still had that. Anyone else have a notable person in your family in Wiki?

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  • Reply 1 of 14
    midwintermidwinter Posts: 10,060member
    Don't know if it's in the wiki, but my mother pointed out to me the other day that the kids on that Princes of Bel Air show are my cousins (their mother is our "famous" relative).



    Sigh.
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  • Reply 2 of 14
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    Now that stamp is cool. I'm new to this stuff...is it still in print?
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  • Reply 3 of 14
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    I have one, but it was very, very, very long time ago.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne



    This is the hazards of genelaogy.



    People used to say that everybody in France had Charlemagnes as ancestor, in my case it's true.



    My very small cousin (6th degree) is also very well known :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Depardieu
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  • Reply 4 of 14
    omegaomega Posts: 427member
    Your related to George DippyDo?



    Dats spethul!



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  • Reply 5 of 14
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Omega

    Your related to George DippyDo?



    Dats spethul!







    Don't worry, you could also be related to him
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  • Reply 6 of 14
    bergzbergz Posts: 1,045member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Powerdoc

    My very small cousin (6th degree) is also very well known :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Depardieu



    There's nothing small about him!!!



    --B
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  • Reply 7 of 14
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Wiki yields nothing (!), although that should be expected since my last name was invented about 70 years ago. I'm working to get it in there.
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  • Reply 8 of 14
    flick justiceflick justice Posts: 632member
    Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 ? January 28, 1918 ) was a Canadian poet, doctor, author and artist and soldier during World War I, who wrote the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".



    flick.
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  • Reply 9 of 14
    benjamin_rbenjamin_r Posts: 265member
    Good ol' Robbie Burns!



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns







    My cousin only just found this out last month after a big dive into our family history....



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  • Reply 10 of 14
    existenceexistence Posts: 991member
    A (late) cousin of mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
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  • Reply 11 of 14
    e1618978e1618978 Posts: 6,075member
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan..._%28emperor%29



    I read an article a while back that proved mathematically that all white people are decendants of Constantine (and every other European who lived more than 800 years ago and has living decendants - 80% have living decendants, 20% have none).



    It was in a print magazine, but this is similar:



    http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/.../Royal/ca.html



    If you go back 2000 years, the same applies to every person on the globe, so everyone reading this is a decendant of Khufu:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu



    And Jesus too, if he had kids and the line survived to the present day. So even the most lily white KKK member has black ancestors in the recent past, and not long enough ago to have any evolutionary differences - to me anyway, this serves as proof that differences between the races are cosmetic and social only.



    Here is one my mom claims as a relative, Black Douglas:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D...28the_Black%29
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  • Reply 12 of 14
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by e1618978

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan..._%28emperor%29



    I read an article a while back that proved mathematically that all white people are decendants of Constantine (and every other European who lived more than 800 years ago and has living decendants - 80% have living decendants, 20% have none).



    It was in a print magazine, but this is similar:



    http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/.../Royal/ca.html



    If you go back 2000 years, the same applies to every person on the globe, so everyone reading this is a decendant of Khufu:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu



    And Jesus too, if he had kids and the line survived to the present day. So even the most lily white KKK member has black ancestors in the recent past, and not long enough ago to have any evolutionary differences - to me anyway, this serves as proof that differences between the races are cosmetic and social only.



    Here is one my mom claims as a relative, Black Douglas:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D...28the_Black%29



    Exactly, I had the chance that my mom proved your point via her huge genealogy study.
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  • Reply 13 of 14
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Existence

    A (late) cousin of mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury



    Yeah baby! Cousin huh?



    6 degrees of seperation.
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