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hmurchison

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?

midwinter

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.

hmurchison

Now that stamp is cool. I'm new to this stuff...is it still in print?

powerdoc

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

omega

Your related to George DippyDo?



Dats spethul!

powerdoc

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Originally posted by Omega

Your related to George DippyDo?



Dats spethul!

Don't worry, you could also be related to him

bergz

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

splinemodel

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.

flick justice

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.

benjamin_r

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....

existence

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

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

powerdoc

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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.

hmurchison

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Originally posted by Existence

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

Yeah baby! Cousin huh?



6 degrees of seperation.